The Quality Engineer focuses on leading raw material quality concerns/claims and improvements including preventative actions to improve quality for both internal and external customers. This position requires the ability to drive improvement across multiple functional areas, through committed root cause discovery and analysis. Good judgment skills are necessary to ensure the appropriate balance of quality, compliance, and business needs.Primary Job Duties and Responsibilities:Activities and duties may vary depending upon site specific needs. Essential functions may include, but are not limited to: Work with raw material vendors to resolve quality issues and to make improvements. Act as the primary problem solving resource for raw material issues as needed.Act as the link between operations and raw material vendors.Provide internal production quality support related to issue resolution, product quality/risk assessment and product disposition.Work to help resolve internal and external customer quality concerns as required.Work across functional boundaries and interface with these business disciplines in a significant manner - laboratory, manufacturing, engineering, sales, and marketing functions as needed to carry out assignments.Works to improve quality metrics (complaints, losses, hold) through supplier quality improvementsDispositions materials or assists in dispositioning material on as needed basis.Provide support in customer, supplier, third party and regulatory audits.Other duties as deemed necessary.Provides training and quality support to the production areas as needed.
