Quality Control and Production Engineer

About The Job

Oriental Motor is a global private company, founded in 1885 in Japan. Headquartered in Ueno Japan, today Oriental Motor is a global leader in sub fractional horsepower electric motors and controls, with global headquarters located in N. America, Europe, and Asia. Oriental Motor designs, manufactures, and sells fractional horsepower electric motors and controls for the automation and motion control markets. Our customers are today's leaders in their industries from Medical to Semiconductor, Packaging, Conveyors, Robots, Automated Guided Vehicles, and everything in between.

At Oriental Motor U.S.A. our goal is to foster each and every employee so they can continuously contribute to the growth and strengthening of our company. In return, we offer a wide range of career paths, training, and benefits fostering our commitment to our employee's careers. We provide benefit programs that align with our employee's personal health care, well-being, and financial objectives including a 401k program.

We are seeking candidates who are interested in joining our team with the abilities to work in a team environment, plan, monitor and direct activities related with the quality and compliance and continuous improvement of the following: Quality Standards, Company Safety Regulations, Environmental Regulations, Import & Export Regulations, Various Government Regulations (Federal, State, County and City), and Specific Customer Regulatory Requirements. The is position is also tasked with planning, monitoring and direct activities related with production management and planning following Production Standards.

Essential Job Functions:

• Function as the Quality Management Representative for the quality system. Ensure the compliance of all functions
  as per ISO9000, representing management during surveillance audits, promoting awareness of customer
  requirements, preparing & maintaining the QMS documents, initiating necessary corrective and preventive actions;
• Formulate and maintain quality objectives and coordinates the achievement of the objectives with Operations &
  Sales;
• Participate in and respond to annual audit requirements generated by Oriental Motor Japan Quality audit teams and
  communicating with Oriental Motor Japan Quality Department regarding quality issues;
• Coordinate within USA Operations for quality alerts originating from Japan and USA factories;
• Investigate and handles customer requests and complaints regarding quality;
• Mine data & develop metrics, graphs, analysis charts to measure and report the company's quality performance and
  other areas requiring management by facts or data;
• Manage, promote, continue improving quality management programs;
• Develop and manage the vendor control program through vendor qualification, performance evaluation & issue
  resolutions;
• Regularly review and improve the document control system;
• Responsible for management and promotion of Operations safety programs, ensuring safe working environment and
  communication of potential hazards;
• Manage the correct tariff classification codes of all OM products and responsible for the timely submission of 10+2
  Importer Security Filing;
• Administer the export compliance requirements applicable to international order shipments;
• Collaborate with Customs Broker, International Carriers, etc. for any import or export issues needing resolutions;
• Maintain the UL Follow up procedure(FUS) and coordinate product safety inspections with UL;
• Respond to various customer inquiries regarding quality surveys, environment (RoHS), country of origin, product
  tariff classifications(HTS), etc;
• Research on regional, national, and internal Compliance and Regulatory for the company products in order to
  support customers;
• Manage and perform RMA process, analyze inspection results, and report to involved departments.
• Design and establish assembling process;
•  Supervising the manufacturing processes, ensuring quality work is done in a safe and efficient manner;
• Liaising with other engineers to develop plans to improve production, costs, and labor required;
• Diagnosing problems in the production line, providing recommendations for improvements, and necessary training; 
• Establishing safety procedures and protocols that take the workers' well-being into account, and that also minimize
  the carbon footprint.

Collateral Duties:

Perform other tasks and special projects as needed.

Qualifications:
To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential job function assigned satisfactorily. The
requirements listed above are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may
be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Requirements:

• Bachelor's Degree in Engineering or related fields;
• Minimum 3 years of related experience;
•  Excellent written and verbal communication skills;
• Good computer skills;
• Good working knowledge of Microsoft Office Suite;
• Experience working in a production environment a plus;

Physical Demands:
The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to sit, use hands-to-finger, handle, or feel, reach with hands and arms, sit, talk, and hear. The employee is frequently required to stand and walk. The employee is occasionally required to balance and stoop, kneel, crouch. The employee must regularly lift and/or move up to 5 pounds and occasionally lift and/or move up to 25 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus.