Quality Engineer

Job Description

Cabinetworks Group has an immediate opening for a Quality Engineer in Orwell, Ohio!

Who is Cabinetworks Group? We are the U.S.’s second largest cabinetry manufacturer, with offices and manufacturing facilities across the country. Offering an unmatched selection of stylish, high-quality products at a variety of price levels, our brands are favored by builders, dealers, distributors, and home centers throughout North America. Our 19 cabinetry brands represent an extensive range of framed, frameless, and inset cabinetry products. The Middlefield facility is home to the KraftMaid brand.

This position ensures processes and systems to ensure and maintain Cabinetworks Group’s world class product line standards and customer expectations. To this end the use of quality metrics to define, measure, analyze and implement processes to constantly monitor and improve quality will be required using Cabinetworks Operating System (COS) concepts and techniques for problem solving and continuous improvement implementation opportunities.

PRINCIPAL FUNCTIONAL RESPONSIBILITIES:

• •Monitor and analyze quality management system performance across operational value chain
• •Development of systems to meet specification and standards (customer and 3rd party) relating to activities and products.
• •Apply statistical process control (SPC) methods to evaluate current processes and process changes
• •Oversee the manufacture of products through product and process audits to ensure that quality documentation and standards are consistent with Cabinetworks Operating System (COS)
• •Monitor and audit performance (across operations) according to agreed standards and take necessary action to communicate according to performance levels.
• •Establish and implement necessary communication to deliver improvement and awareness of quality issues across assigned departments.
• •Liaise with Cabinetworks Corporate Quality on quality management system and standards bodies (e.g. Government Departments, HSE, etc).
• •Implement changes in standards (internally) and performance against standards.
• •Develop and implement agreed to targets within policies and standards in conjunction with the Quality Assurance Manager
• •Act as a mentor of Six Sigma
• •Additional duties and responsibilities as requested by the Quality Assurance Manager

ESSENTIAL QUALIFICATIONS AND SKILLS:

• •Bachelor degree in engineering, quality management, business, or related field.
• •Minimum 2 years’ experience working in engineering, quality, new product development, manufacturing or regulatory
• •Demonstrated problem solving and root cause analysis skills (Why 5, Fishbone, etc..)
• •The ability to compute statistical data and communicate complex statistical information to those with little background or understanding of statistics.
• •Subject matter expertise in Process Flow Mapping, Process Failure Modes & Effects Analysis (PFMEA), and Control Plan
• •Metrology (Gauges)
• •An understanding or experience with auditing (System, Process, Procedure).
• •Product Auditing –Sample Auditing AQL.
• •Product knowledge.
• •A good understanding of quality tools (pareto charts, histograms, flow charts, etc.)
• •Experience with APQP/QFD
• •Computer literacy including strong working knowledge of the Microsoft Office Suite.
• •Six Sigma Green Belt.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS AND SKILLS:

• •4 years in the Quality Field.
• •Align quality to customer and business value proposition
• •ASQ Certification: CQE, CQM, CQA, CQT, CRE.
• •Knowledge of Quality Systems (ISO-9001, ISO-14001, QS9000)
• •Experience with ANSI A161.1
• •ISO-9000 Lead Auditor Certificate.
• •Other Quality related certificates.
• •Six Sigma Black Belt

Shift

Full or Part Time

Full time

Cabinetworks Group (the “Company”) is an equal opportunity employer and we want to have the best available persons in every job. The Company makes employment decisions only based on merit. It is the Company’s policy to prohibit discrimination in any employment opportunity (including but not limited to recruitment, employment, promotion, salary increases, benefits, termination and all other terms and conditions of employment) based on race, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, genetic information, pregnancy, religious creed, national origin, ancestry, age, physical/mental disability, medical condition, marital/domestic partner status, military and veteran status, height, weight or any other such characteristic protected by federal, state or local law. The Company is committed to complying with all applicable laws providing equal employment opportunities. This commitment applies to all persons involved in the operations of the Company regardless of where the employee is located and prohibits unlawful discrimination by any employee of the Company.

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