Quality Engineer

Quality Engineer

What Brought You Here:

Total compensation pay range: $75 - $90k DOE

Why Trulite:

Trulite offers the most comprehensive benefit coverage in the industry. Including immediate access to all health, dental, vision and life insurance for you and your family. Our commitment to you as a member of our team also includes both Long Term and Short-Term Disability coverage to help protect you financially.

Because we value your financial health, we provide not only a comprehensive wellness initiative, but we also provide financial literacy, providing all employees with a comprehensive financial wellness program.

Stay with us for a year and your 401k employer match is 100% vested and immediately becomes part of your ever improving financial plan. This is also true for those who select and contribute to their Health Savings Account. We match on both employee and family coverage to help cover out-of-pocket expenses and if unused continues to grow until need. Employer match is also vested immediately at 100% improving your financial health.

Trulite bears most of the cos of your benefits. We structured these benefits because we care not only about your physical wellbeing but your financial health and welfare too. Let us show you a way to financial independence while being a valuable member of our team. Benefits starting DAY ONE!

Who You Are:

• The successful candidate will be a hands-on, "on the plant floor" person who has proven experience leading effective behavioral change in the process, procedures, implementations with a functional area to ensure performance and productivity in a manufacturing environment.

What You Will Be Doing:

Accountable for monitoring and support of the manufacturing activities to produce a quality product that meets or exceeds our customer's expectations through continued review and analysis of quality and production process.

DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

• Develop and implement quality standards, quality control systems and quality measures.
• Inspect and test materials, equipment, processes, and products to ensure quality specifications are met.
• Develop and implement quality improvement parameters by finding statistical methods relevant to manufacturing processes.
• Develop statistical confidence by finding sample size and acceptable error and setting up confidence levels.
• Prepares reports by collecting, analyzing, and summarizing data; and making recommendations.
• Develops sampling and experimental plans by applying attributes and variable sampling methods.
• Collaborate with operations to develop and implement controls and improvements.
• Ensuring that workflows, processes, and products follow industry and safety regulations/standards.
• Excellent troubleshooting skills and to be able to ensure that processes and products consistently meet established quality standards.
• Investigates operational errors to find the cause and effect, making recommendations for corrective action.
• Required to work in a team environment with customers, co-workers, production supervisors, shipping and receiving, customer service, sales, and company management.
• Assist COD and sales in resolving customer quality complaints.
• Process all returned RGA's (Return Goods Authorization) evaluating reason for return and decide and recommendation to the plant manager for resolution.
• Use accepted methods to inspect, sample and test materials for quality control and quality control tolerance.
• Monitor, Inspect, and test process functions, product, and materials daily at all stages to ensure our products meet or exceed industry standards.
• Record and log all test data per production process and report weekly to the plant manager.
• Oversee all aspects of Quality Control including overall implementation of the quality program and supply support as needed to the key personnel who manage the processes.
• Daily reviews of key metrics to ensure budgeted goals are being met. Interpret information and coordinate any required changes or new directives with employees.
• Review daily production statistics and ensure implementation of measures for continuous improvement in safety, quality, efficiency, and preventive loss.
• Work with Supply chain (Purchasing) team on supplier quality related issues.
• Daily inspections - Look for any unsafe objects, check equipment, etc.
• Maintains safe operations by adhering to safety procedures and regulations.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Skills You Bring:

• Education- Associate Degree or five years industry experience
• Minimum of five years of experience managing Quality Control/ Operational Standards in a manufacturing needed.
• The successful candidate will be a hands-on, "on the plant floor" person who has proven experience leading effective behavioral change in the process, procedures, implementations with a functional area to ensure performance and productivity in a manufacturing environment.
• Excellent project management skills.
• Strong analytical, statistical, and problem-solving skills.
• Persuasive communication and interpersonal skills.
• Must work well in a cross-functional, dynamic, collaborative environment.
• Works directly with all departments in quality issues and in preventative and corrective actions.
• Actively pursue learning goals for added opportunities in growth and development in production and quality.
• Contribute to continued process improvement updating and writing new process procedures.
• Create understanding of workflow, employee relations and processes through hands-on experience with production equipment and working with production supervisor.
• Aid production supervisors in training, motivating, and instructing employees engaged in process improvement, documenting, and recording activities.

Working Conditions (travel, hours)

• Able to work full-time, and according to Branch Office needs, Monday through Friday 8AM - 5PM, overtime may be needed. On occasion it may be needed to travel to make customer visits.

Physical/Sensory Requirements

• Labor Work - Exerting 10 to 25 pounds of force occasionally, and/or 5 to 10 pounds of force often, and/or greater than negligible up to 10 pounds of force constantly to move objects. Physical Demand requirements are more than those for Light Work.

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer. We embrace and encourage our employees' differences in age, color, disability, ethnicity, gender identity or expression, language, national origin, physical and mental ability, political affiliation, race, religion, sexual orientation, socioeconomic status, veteran status, and other characteristics that make our employees unique.