Quality Engineer
This position is responsible for supporting manufacturing processes at the Covestro South Deerfield Site. This position develops and maintains Quality systems used for the production of Thermoplastic Polyurethane and Polycarbonate films and sheets that meet internal Quality standards and Customer requirements. This includes supporting local / global Quality objectives, ensuring the effectiveness of the ISO 9001 Quality Management System at the Covestro South Deerfield Site and improving Quality outcomes using structured problem-solving tools to investigate and address Quality problems, issues and opportunities.
Major Responsibilities:
Safety:
- Capable of maintaining an incident free workplace and ensuring housekeeping standards are met.
- Participates in the mitigation of minor safety related improvements projects.
- Learns and implement Management of Change tools.
Quality Management System:
- Supports SDF Quality Management System for ISO 9001:2015 certification and alignment with Global IMS. Serves on Self-Assessment team to meet annual Compliance requirements.
- Maintains / updates existing Quality documentation.
- Supports QMS processes (Calibration, DCR, NCMR, MRB, Supplier Management (raw materials), etc.).
- Learns about creation of Customer specifications, PPAP, Quality Survey and other Customer documentation.
Technical Support:
- Provides day to day support to the Internal Customer (Production, Engineering, GQM, GTPM, CO/OM, MM, Innovation) to ensure Quality outcomes at site.
- Learns Customer requirements and develops in role as Voice of the External Customer / Voice of Business.
- Understands and maintains Quality documentation (raw material specifications, Production Record reports, Quality SOP/Work Instructions, etc).
- Observes normal Quality outcomes and process and product development trials to develop technical skill sets.
- Supports site and global activities as needed (gage R&R, Round Robin testing).
- Participates in Quality training. Learns and develops skills to provide engineering support to projects across the site.
Continuous Improvement:
- Possesses a continuous improvement mindset.
- Participates in continuous improvement teams / efforts at the site. Develops and utilizes CI tools in both project and daily work to meet customer expectations.
- Generates Quality KPI data as assigned and supports data analysis.
- Learns statistical analysis to determine process and product capability.
Business Support:
- Learns and applies basic business and economic principles in daily / project work. Learns role as Voice of the External Customer / Voice of Business.
You are part of the Strategic business entity Specialty Films – We are a global team developing specialty films solutions for a broad customer base with focus on the segments Automotive, Medical and Security. As a leading partner for high-quality, customized technical specialty films, we support our customers with innovative, customized solutions to make the world a brighter place. As global supplier of technical specialty films with focus on polycarbonate and thermoplastic polyurethane films, also supplemented with coated films, with production locations in Europe, North America and Asia, we supply films of consistent high quality to all the world’s major markets. Our films do a lot more than you might think, given the properties of the plastics on which they are based and as one of the global leaders in the field of plastic films, our material development activities are geared to technologies of the future.
Basic Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree - Engineering (preferred ChE, Polymer, Materials) or Chemistry
Preferred Qualifications:
- ASQ certification - LSS Yellow/Green Belt, Quality Engineer, Quality Auditor.
- General extrusion and web handling, ISO 9001, Quality and 5S tools, Continuous Improvement.
- Microsoft Office products; Minitab, SAP
Knowledge and Skills:
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, organizational skills.
- Practices active listening skills, able to communicate openly and effectively, providing timely and relevant feedback to facilitate appropriate actions by self and others.
- Relates well to people at all levels in the organization and possesses a balanced sensitivity to safety, employee concerns and business needs.
- Able to function as a peer in a team environment to ensure timely delivery of results.
- Diligent and conscientious worker, self-motivated, self-starter and possessing self-directive capabilities.