Quality Engineer

Eaton's ES AMER ESS division is currently seeking a Quality Engineer.

This role is located at our Jonesville, SC facility. Relocation assistance will be provided.

The expected annual salary range for this role is $86000 - $126000 a year.

Please note the salary information shown above is a general guideline only. Salaries are based upon candidate skills, experience, and qualifications, as well as market and business considerations.

What you'll do:

The Quality Engineer is responsible for carefully monitoring the overall quality of manufactured products. They rigorously test processes and enforce uncompromising quality standards. The engineer is also responsible for creating detailed documentation, designing strict quality tests, and setting clear criteria for test results. Quality Engineers maintain high-quality standards and decisively address any issues that arise. They work alongside a team of professionals to ensure that final products consistently meet and exceed customer expectations while optimizing the manufacturing process to be both efficient and cost-effective.

In this role you will:

• Directs cross functional teams in problem solving and issue analysis in an effort to address either customer or production related issues
• Coordinates support of production manufacturing with problem solving, process improvements and resolution to manufacturability issues.
• Maintains ISO 9001 quality system and supports the management of Eaton's Quality Management System procedures.
• Manages identification of gaps at the Department/Plant level and executes improvement activity using knowledge as subject matter expert.
• Directs coordination of customer return analysis and ensures timely response to customers.
• Works with Design Engineering and Supply Chain to ensure that quality criteria are clearly identified on all newly established parts and communicated to suppliers.
• Develops and leads routine risk assessment activity (PFEMA) on all new products and with changes that affect existing product.
• Works in partnership with engineering to support all NPD Launch related projects and milestones related to product quality and improve the overall process to achieve zero defects and launch readiness.
• Executes or facilitates all aspects of APQP and Part Approval and sign-off for both suppliers and customers, manage revisions of process control documents such as PFMEAs, Control Plans and other quality tools to ensure compliance.
• Analyzes scrap, warranty, internal defect, and customer complaint rates to develop action plans for improvement.

Qualifications:

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in engineering from an accredited institution OR High School Diploma/GED with 5-7 years Manufacturing experience

• Two (2) years of Quality or Manufacturing experience.

• 5-7 years of experience with principals of statistics, calculus, trigonometry, and other advanced topics in mathematics for analysis, design, and troubleshooting in their work.

• 5-7 years of experience Project Management

• 5-7 years of experience using MS Office software including Word, Excel, Outlook, and PowerPoint

• 5-7 years of experience reading and interpreting assembly and component drawings and engineering specifications.

• Eaton will not consider applicants for employment immigration sponsorship or support for this position. This means that Eaton will not support any CPT, OPT, or STEM OPT plans, F-1 to H-1B, H-1B cap registration, O-1, E-3, TN status, I-485 job portability, etc.

• Relocation assistance will be provided for candidates that reside outside a 50-mile radius of Jonesville, SC.

Preferred Qualifications:

• 3-5 years of Quality or Manufacturing experience.
• Understanding of problem-solving methodologies used in determining root cause and formulating corrective action(s) - i.e. thought maps, 8D, root cause analysis, Process Failure Mode Effect Analysis, control charts, Pareto charts, A3s, etc
• GB (green belt) or BB (black belt) certified.
• Experience in electrical testing procedures and protocols.
• Fundamental knowledge of electrical equipment at component and integrated system levels.
• Demonstrated ability to interpret regulation and standards, and implementing Electrical Safe Work practices such NFPA 70E.
• Demonstrated ability to interpret and trouble shoot electrical control, protection, instrumentation, and metering schematics and wiring diagrams.
• Experience supporting Engineered to Order (ETO) manufacturing plant.
• Demonstrated ability to work with little direction and effectively operate in a team-oriented environment.
• Ability to assist manufacturing operations and product designers/engineering personnel to resolve electrical design and build production issues.

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You do not need to disclose your conviction history or participate in a background check until a conditional job offer is made to you. After making a conditional offer and running a background check, if Eaton is concerned about conviction that is directly related to the job, you will be given the chance to explain the circumstances surrounding the conviction, provide mitigating evidence, or challenge the accuracy of the background report.

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We know that good benefit programs are important to employees and their families. Eaton provides various Health and Welfare benefits as well as Retirement benefits, and several programs that provide for paid and unpaid time away from work. Click here for more detail: Eaton Benefits Overview. Please note that specific programs and options available to an employee may depend on eligibility factors such as geographic location, date of hire, and the applicability of collective bargaining agreements.