Quality Engineer

Job Description:

Come be DISRUPTIVE with us! At Milwaukee Tool, our most valued resource is our dedicated team of employees - employees who work with a passion to be the best and an unparalleled pride in their work and in the Milwaukee brand. We know that the only way to sustain growth and success is to value the growth and success of each person within the organization that's why we invest in an individual's growth and development from day one.

All our teams touch every step of the process, that is why our Engineering teams are some of the key contributors to our continuous innovations. The fast-paced, agile environment continuously delivers disruptive technologies by providing every team with the resources needed to excel and working directly with End Users to understand how to deliver heavy duty products with high performance. We create Best in Class products by leveraging advanced analysis tools, extensive testing regimes, state-of-the-art manufacturing processes and cross-functional agility.

Reporting to the Manager of Quality Engineering, works with occasional supervision and from broad guidelines and objectives, the primary duty of this position is to provide a wide variety of process analysis and process improvement activities to internal and external customers. The fast-paced environment allows the opportunity to implement new, innovative solutions both within the quality team and company-wide. As part of working for Milwaukee Tool, you will assist in the launch of many new, exciting products which deliver unique solutions to our end-users.

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Research, develop and revise Quality Policies, Procedures, System Instructions, Engineering Standards and Work Instructions.

• Perform process analysis on machines, equipment and systems to facilitate process improvement. Track process performance and provide feedback to engineering, manufacturing and management.

• Provide services to the manufacturing, distribution and suppliers in process improvement to reduce process variation and increase process control.

• Help consult with Engineering and other functional teams on statistical techniques and continuous improvement tools, such as process analysis, flowcharting, design of experiments and strategic planning, to engineers, buyers, suppliers, etc.

• Conceive, plan, organize and coordinate all phases of assigned special projects to improve efficiencies, simplify workflow and reduce costs.

• Apply statistical methods such as gauge R & R, design of experiments and statistical process control to quality related issues.

• Help manage and create corrective action plans used in the corporate office to ensure timely root cause analysis and effective corrective/preventive action.

• Perform process and quality system audits to ensure compliance to specifications and documented procedures.

• Determine acceptance quality levels by means of random sampling techniques, where feasible.

• Maintain a current knowledge of: The latest gauging methods, procedures and software and introduce them into the company where appropriate; the latest drawing and test specification standards (Geometric Dimensioning & Tolerance, etc.); the structure and workings of the Milwaukee Quality System and all certifying agency requirements.

Job Requirements:

• Bachelor's Degree in Engineering

• Previous experience with Green belt or Black Belt skills or statistical methods

Milwaukee Tool is an equal opportunity employer.