What you’ll do:

• Lead the plant’s zero-defect initiative while driving efforts to improve quality trends and to reduce costs associated with rework, scrap and warranty claims in line with Divisional goals.
• Utilize a working knowledge of ISO 9001 and Eaton Quality Management System (EQMS) requirements to maintain an effective Quality Management System.
• Maintains assigned Procedures and Systems to ensure continued compliance with the ISO-9001 international quality standard and EQMS
• Supports the maintenance and monitoring the plant’s quality performance metrics.
• Interact with customers and field sales engineers as necessary to resolve quality issues through the use of the Customer Quality Management system (CQM) and related processes.
• Work with local COE engineering and design engineering to assure that product configurations provided meet customer expectations for quality and the plants expectations for manufacturability and quality system documentation.
• Develop and coordinate problems and activities to assess and improve manufacturing processes and product quality.
• Maintain frequent contact with management, engineers, technicians, and other company personnel to discuss and resolve quality reliability.
• Interact with suppliers and coordinate supplier quality initiatives for the plant including leading the monthly supplier quality review meeting with the Supply Chain team.
• Plan and coordinate the use, calibration, maintenance, and application of all electrical test equipment and process control equipment within the company.
• Oversee the collection and analyze production data to assess and monitor product quality and reliability.
• Develop statistical analysis and related quality assurance reporting information for review with manufacturing management’s
• Coordinate annual reviews of existing Process potential Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (PpFMEA) and Control Plans in line with EQMS expectations while also developing these documents for new products.
• Coordinate activities to complete measurement system analysis and capability studies on key processes in line with EQMS expectations using Minitab.

Qualifications:

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelors Degree in Engineering or Science from an accredited institution
• More than 5 years of experience in a manufacturing environment
• Must be legally authorized to work in the United States without company sponsorship.

Skills:

• Thorough understanding of problem-solving methods-i.e. Six Sigma, 8D, root cause analysis, and the associated statistical tools to analyze problems, evaluate and complete improvement projects.
• Working knowledge of ISO, Quality Management System and Six Sigma.
• Detailed knowledge of process auditing techniques to ensure compliance to defined quality requirements.
• Knowledge of Lean Manufacturing and Process Variation Reduction (Six Sigma) concepts and tool sets as they relate to process/product variability, and root cause and corrective action determination.
• Thorough knowledge of gauging and inspection techniques
• Strong problem-solving skills are essential.
• Training and experience with quality assurance concepts, Error Proofing, Problem Solving, MSA’s, Capability Studies, PpFMEA’s, Control Plans, ISO 9001, dimensional analysis, auditing and Supplier Quality Management.
• Possess project management skills to direct the activities of small to medium size projects