First Quality was founded in 1989 and, in nearly three decades, has grown to be a global privately held company with over 4,000 employees. Its corporate offices are located in Great Neck, New York, with manufacturing facilities and offices in Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Georgia, and Canada. First Quality is a diversified family of companies manufacturing consumer products ranging from Absorbent Hygiene (adult incontinence, feminine care, and baby care), Tissue (bath and towel), and Industrial (print and packaging materials and thermoformed plastics), serving institutional and retail markets throughout the world. First Quality focuses on private label and branded product lines.
Our core business philosophy is built on a proud culture driven by safety and quality, respect, humility, integrity, customer focus, and teamwork. With leading edge manufacturing technologies and processes and visionary leadership, FQE is positioned to continue significant growth in the coming years. We are looking for an experienced Quality Assurance Engineer for our state-of-the-art manufacturing facility located in Lewistown, PA.
This position is responsible for providing leadership for quality assurance support on assigned programs and areas to ensure that the product is designed, procured, and built-in accordance with customer and industry quality requirements. Additionally, the position will provide leadership for new system development, implementation, procedures, and any related quality activity.
Primary responsibilities include:
- Supervises the activities, performance review and disciplinary actions of assigned staff.
- Understands and performs quality testing according to approved procedures.
- Identifies quality data trends to develop and lead corrective & preventive action.
- Ensures that statistical methods are applied to testing, validation, sampling and inspection activities and quality investigations.
- Leads teams in quality system improvement, new product development, cost savings, and other quality initiatives.
- Coordinates the resolution of customer complaints/non-conformance issues.
- Acts as primary QA contact in supplier assessment and raw material qualification activities.
- Leads internal and customer audits of the quality system.
- Leads implementation and closure of validation qualification plans and reports.
- Oversees proper use and control of QA Department quality records.
- Devises or revises procedures related to the Quality Management System.
- Reports significant issues or developments identified during quality activities and provides recommended process improvements to management.
- Prepares and presents quality system information to team members.
- Understands competitive product features in comparison to products.
- Completes required reports and summaries for regulatory & industry agencies.
- Performs laboratory tours and provides Quality System explanations to visitors.
The ideal candidate should possess the following skills:
- Bachelor’s degree in Engineering discipline and two or more years in quality or manufacturing engineering, (or) Bachelor’s degree in a scientific/technical field with five or more years experience in quality or manufacturing engineering disciplines.
- Experience in statistics, procedure implementation, and quality auditing preferred.
- Experience in procedure implementation and quality auditing preferred.
- Advanced statistics skills.
- Familiarity with formal Quality System (ISO 13485, ISO 9001, GMP/QSR, etc.)
- ASQ Certification or equivalent training (CQA or CQT required; CQE preferred).
- Strong communication skills.
- Demonstrates and promotes team leadership ability.
Excellent compensation and benefit package!
For immediate and confidential consideration, please visit our website at www.firstquality.com & click on the Join Us Tab!
First Quality is committed to protecting information under the care of First Quality Enterprises commensurate with leading industry standards and applicable regulations. As such, First Quality provides at least annual training regarding data privacy and security to employees who, as a result of their role specifications, may come in to contact with sensitive data.
First Quality is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, sexual orientation, gender identification, or protected Veteran status.
Job Type: Full-time
Benefits:
- 401(k)
- 401(k) matching
- Dental insurance
- Health insurance
- Life insurance
- Paid time off
- Vision insurance
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Schedule:
- 8 hour shift
- Day shift
- Monday to Friday
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Work Location: In person