Advanced Quality Engineer

Company Description:

Crown Equipment Corporation, one of the worlds largest lift truck manufacturers, offers local support on a global scale with more than 15 manufacturing facilities worldwide and more than 500 retail locations in over 80 countries. Our global sales and service network provides our customers with a local resource for a wide variety of quality material handling equipment, fleet management solutions, warehouse products and support services to meet their needs anytime, anywhere.

Advanced Quality Engineer

Job Duties

• Support product quality deliverables assigned to design, critical features, and reliability analysis input to project teams.
• Plan and participate in reliability testing and analysis, and process capability studies to determine process efficiency and suitability.
• Coordinate quality activities within manufacturing, supplier, six-sigma and product support to ensure design requirements are conveyed to the unit level and appropriate inspection, measurement, and test controls and procedures are established.
• Provide input to manufacturing engineering and production management from process capability studies for continuous improvement.
• Support creation (new methods) and revision (existing methods) efforts in areas with significant impact on product, process or equipment.
• Participate in analysis and reporting of warranty returns.
• Provide ongoing product, process, equipment and method creation/revision input to owners of quality management system elements for inclusion in system documentation.
• Provide periodic input to the Quality Manager for the ongoing incremental improvement of the Design Support Quality Engineer function.
• Mentor new employees, technicians and student engineers as appropriate.

Minimum Qualifications

• 5-7 years related experience
• Bachelor's degree (Mechanical, Electrical, Manufacturing, or Industrial Engineering, Quality Assurance)
• Non-degree considered if 12+ years of related experience along with a high school diploma or GED
• Frequent travel (6-20%)
• Frequent overnight stays (6-20%)
• Job requires employee to drive a personal vehicle to conduct company business < 20% per week (8 hours) and/or travel locally between company locations during scheduled workday

Preferred Qualifications

• ASQ (or equivalent) Certified Quality or Reliability Engineer certification and/or PMP certification
• Good computer literacy, word processing skills (MS Word) and spreadsheet skills (MS Excel)
• Knowledge of databases (MS Access)
• Technical skills and training, such as quality tools and techniques, geometric dimensioning and tolerancing (GD&T), process capability and statistical process control (SPC)
• Formal or informal training in problem solving methods (six-sigma, Red-X, 8D)
• Good communication skills, the ability to collaborate effectively with others, and the personal drive and sense of urgency required to deliver timely support

Work Authorization:

Crown will only employ those who are legally authorized to work in the United States. This is not a position for which sponsorship will be provided. Individuals with temporary visas or who need sponsorship for work authorization now or in the future, are not eligible for hire.

No agency calls please.

Compensation and Benefits:

Crown offers an excellent wage and benefits package for full-time employees including Health/Dental/Vision/Prescription Drug Plan, Flexible Benefits Plan, 401K Retirement Savings Plan, Life and Disability Benefits, Paid Parental Leave, Paid Holidays, Paid Vacation, Tuition Reimbursement, and much more.

EOE Veterans/Disabilities