Quality Engineer Position Summary
The Quality Engineer is responsible for ensuring the quality performance and compliance of EPSEPP molded packaging products to automotive and other manufacturers. This role oversees quality systems, production processes, and material validation to meet customer regulatory and industry requirements. The ideal candidate has experience in foam molding, EPSEPP automotive quality standards, and structured problem-solving with a strong focus on continuous improvement and customer satisfaction.
Key Responsibilities Include:
• Develop and maintain quality control plans, inspection standards, and testing protocols specific to foam molding processes. • Lead root cause analysis and corrective actions for inter- and nonconformances and customer issues using 8D, 5 why fishbone, or similar tools. • Support APQP activities, including PFMEA, Control Plans, PPAP submissions, and customer-specific documentation. • Collaborate with Production and Engineering teams to monitor and improve molding processes, ensuring consistency, dimensional accuracy, and material performance. • Conduct material and product testing, density compression, dimensional checks, drop testing to ensure compliance with specifications. • Monitor production using SPC data, capability studies, and quality metrics to identify trends and implement improvements. • Monitor and respond to customer concerns, including attending meetings, conducting on-site reviews, and preparing quality reports. • Conduct internal audits in accordance with IATF 16949, ISO 9001, and customer-specific requirements. • Maintain documentation related to quality incidents, inspections, testing, and continuous improvement activities. • Collaborate with suppliers to ensure raw material quality, including bead specifications, steam pressure parameters, and molding requirements. • Support continuous improvement initiatives to drive process efficiency, defect reduction, and overall product quality.
Qualifications
Required:
• Bachelors degree in engineering, Quality, Industrial, Mechanical, Manufacturing, Materials, or related field, or relative experience. • 2 years of quality engineering experience in an automotive quality manufacturing environment or related experience in automotive packaging. • Experience with EPSEPP molding or similar foam injection molding processes. • Strong knowledge of automotive quality standards, including APQP, PPAP, FMEA, MSA, and SPC. • Ability to read engineering drawings and customer specifications, understanding of dimensional tolerances, and foam product behavior. • CAD experience. • Proficiency in root cause analysis and structured problem-solving tools. • Strong communication and documentation skills with the ability to work effectively with cross-functional teams.
Preferred:
• ASQ Certification as a CQE, certified quality engineer, CQA, certified quality auditor, ASQ Six Sigma Green or Black Belt. • Experience working with Tier-1, Tier-2, or OEM automotive customers. • Knowledge of IATF 16949 requirements. • Familiarity with mold tooling, steam systems, and molding cycle controls for EPSEPP. • Six Sigma or Lean Manufacturing certification. • Experience using statistical software.
Company Overview
Founded in Elkhart, Indiana, in 1954, EFP is strategically located to serve the central United States with two of the largest EPS molding plants in the U.S. Headquartered in Elkhart, Indiana, the company also has locations in Decatur, Alabama, Nashville, Tennessee, and Evansville, Indiana.
EFP can design, fabricate, and provide fulfillment capabilities, kitting, assembly, custom systems, and inventory management. Nashville is also home to the companys Temperature Solutions Center of Excellence.
For more than 30 years, EFP LLC has been owned by J.B. Poindexter & Co. Inc., a privately held diversified manufacturing company with operating subsidiaries throughout North America. In addition to expanded foam products, these companies produce commercial van bodies, step vans, funeral coaches, limousines, pick-up truck bed enclosures, and tonneau covers, and precision machined components.
The size and strength of the Poindexter companies provide EFP with the leadership and resources to stay on the leading edge in todays marketplace. Because of this, EFP can provide its customers groundbreaking packaging and component solutions.
For more information about our company, access EFPs website at www.efpcorp.com.
EFP offers a competitive salary and comprehensive benefits. EFPs benefits package includes:
• Medical • Dental • Vision • Life • STD • LTD • FSA • HSA • 401k Plan with company contributions
JB Poindexter & Co (JBPCO) initially began as an investment partnership with John B. Poindexter and fellow partners, whose goals evolved from the realization of capital gains to the achievement of long-term growth. Initial acquisitions in the manufacturing and automotive spaces would lay the foundation for an enterprise led by household names in each respective industry working together to benefit one another.