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Senior Quality Engineer

Senior Quality Engineer

ITT Motion TechnologiesIrvine, CA, US
30+ days ago
Job type
  • Full-time
Job description

Senior Quality Engineer

The Senior Quality Engineer will manage tasks related to current production processes, continuous improvement, and daily support with internal and external customers. This role will be a leader in the organization to support of all MRB and RMA activities and appropriate root cause problems solving and improvement to prevent recurrence of customer escapes and internal defects. The Senior Quality Engineer will hold a primary role in the launch of new products by ensuring compliance and readiness by employing Advanced Product Quality Planning techniques.

Essential Responsibilities

  • Work directly with the customer to understand and mitigate Quality concerns and provide appropriate timely responses for actions of containment, root cause analysis, corrective action and effectiveness reviews.
  • Read / interpret and assure Customer requirements are followed and flowed into Supplier Purchase Orders.
  • Work directly with Customer to organize on-site visits and / or audits.
  • Support production by analyzing problems, recommending, and implementing corrective actions as well as obtaining data to create appropriate metrics and plans for continuous improvement.
  • Create, monitor and improve production quality metrics such as first pass yield. The candidate will make appropriate charts for display, actively participate in daily GEMBA meetings, and lead appropriate improvements.
  • Lead and teach the multidisciplinary effort to perform Root Cause analysis on internal and external product with timely responses and ensure all corrective actions are validated to prevent recurrence of non-conformances.
  • Perform activities of an Internal auditor and create appropriate reports per procedures.
  • Act as a Quality representative on the Engineering Change Control Board.
  • Lead cultural transformation of quality standards throughout the Production and Quality organization, by adhering to our Quality Management System and through reinforcement of our core values of respect, integrity and accountability.
  • Lead creation of Part Acceptance standards for Final Inspection, Assembly and Receiving Inspection areas as well as ensuring these requirements flow down to suppliers.
  • Other responsibilities as assigned.

Position Requirements

  • BS degree or equivalent experience
  • 10+ years of technical industry experience in manufacturing environment
  • Aerospace, Military, or Automotive experience
  • Working knowledge of materials : plastics, metals, elastomers, and metal finishes
  • OEM documentation experience (drawing, specification, router, BOM, parts list, etc.).
  • Demonstrated leadership or program management abilities
  • Proficiency in MS Excel, MS PowerPoint, MS Word and Outlook, excellent written and oral communication skills.
  • Must be proactive approach to planning, organization capabilities, and problem resolution
  • Fostering Teamwork & Diversity; specifically, through proactively soliciting all facts and opinions from team members, creating a constructive and open environment for sharing data.
  • Capable of making best-practice decisions and communicating why certain facts or opinions prevailed over others.
  • Travel requirement : up to 10% (domestic and international)
  • Certified Quality Engineer, Certified Quality Auditor, Certified Quality Manager, Lean Six Sigma Green Belt or higher preferred
  • Equal Pay Act Statement

    We aim to pay our 'ITT'ers' fairly and competitively in the locations that they live and work. Pay-for-performance is a principle that we believe in, and employees are rewarded based not only on 'what' they accomplish, but also on 'how' they reflect ITT's values. ITT offers a competitive salary and robust total rewards package, such as health insurance, 401(k), short and long-term disability, paid time off, growth and developmental opportunities, and other incentive compensation programs. Specific benefits are dependent upon whether or not the position is part of a collective-bargaining agreement. The salary offered to a candidate is based several factors such as candidate experience and qualifications, location, as well as market and business considerations.

    Equal Pay Act Range

    Annual salary range is $116,900 to $174,700, plus benefits and incentive plans

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