Quality Engineer in Hagerstown, MD at Allied Reliability

Job Description

This role as a Quality Engineer would serve as a customer contact that helps to interface when it comes to quality issues at receiving plants and the ability to coordinate activities between production and the customer. The customer contact should be the “customer’s voice in production.” The customer contact is an interface for field feedback and should be able to effectively communicate that feedback between stakeholders. The Customer contact claims should be handled as a model area for problem solving.  Deliverables for this position are: number of customer claims, problem solving lead time and customer dialogue satisfaction.

• Contact for claims from receiver plants, field customers and audits. Prioritize, analyze and follow up actions. Record the claims and report to assigner
• Initiate and when needed participate in problem solving team, to analyze and evaluate incoming claims, Find the root cause category for the claim, perform risk analysis (faults on more parts or engines, risk of delivery disturbances), initiate short term solution (“firewall”).Support manufacturing to decide if inspection of the plant stock is needed or not
• Initiate, lead and coordinate improvement activities of delivered products at the receiver plant
• Lead and coordinate internal campaigns
• Analyze field issues together with product quality leader and agree about actions
• Plan and perform the customer dialogue. Report the result. Address and perform necessary improvement activities according to the dialogue
• Participate in global network to develop and harmonize the processes between the production sites
• Support Production when it comes to situations to request deviation approval
• Recommend to stop production and deliveries when it is necessary from a security, quality and environmental point of view
• Inform plant management when needed about consequences, propose actions and report
• Lead problem solving activities and report results     

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering and/or equivalent years of experience in engineering and quality
• 5+ years of relevant area experience
• High knowledge of customer and field impact
• Be a problem solving expert
• High technical knowledge of major components such as engines, transmissions and production processes
• Good understanding of purchasing and development processes
• Good communication skills 
• Have a holistic view. Understand other cultures. Be a good listener and easily adapt to new situations

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