Quality Engineer I

Location: Greenville, SC
Duration: 12 Months

Responsibilities:

• Ensure compliance with company quality standards, customer specifications, and applicable industry requirements.
• Develop and maintain quality plans, inspection plans, control plans, and quality procedures.
• Participate in internal and external audits and support corrective actions resulting from audit findings.
• Provide daily support to large-format machining operations including CNC horizontal boring mills, gantry mills, vertical turning centers, and multi-axis machining centers.
• Review manufacturing processes to ensure compliance with engineering drawings, GD&T requirements, work instructions, and customer specifications.
• Serve as the quality representative for production teams and provide technical guidance on quality-related issues.
• Support first article inspections, job startups, process validations, and production readiness reviews.
• Interpret complex engineering drawings, specifications, and geometric dimensioning and tolerancing (GD&T).
• Support inspection activities utilizing CMMs, laser trackers, portable CMM arms, large-volume metrology systems, and conventional inspection equipment.
• Analyze inspection data and identify trends impacting product quality.
• Validate measurement system effectiveness through MSA and Gage R&R studies.
• Lead root cause investigations for internal and external nonconformances.
• Utilize tools including 8D, DMAIC, Fishbone Analysis, 5 Why, PFMEA, and Statistical Process Control (SPC).
• Drive corrective and preventive actions that eliminate recurring quality issues.
• Facilitate cross-functional teams focused on process improvement and defect reduction.
• Track quality performance metrics and support continuous improvement initiatives.
• Support supplier qualification and issue resolution activities.
• Review supplier quality performance and participate in supplier corrective action processes.
• Interface directly with customers regarding quality concerns, audits, inspections, and acceptance criteria.
• Assist with customer source inspections and product release activities.

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Manufacturing Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Industrial Engineering, or related technical discipline.
• Minimum 3 years of quality engineering experience in a machining or manufacturing environment.
• Strong understanding of large-format machining processes and manufacturing operations.
• Ability to interpret engineering drawings and specifications.
• Proficiency with GD&T per ASME Y14.5 standards.
• Experience with root cause analysis and corrective action methodologies.
• Strong data analysis and problem-solving skills.
• Effective communication and cross-functional collaboration abilities.

Preferred Skills:

• 5 years of quality engineering experience supporting large CNC machining operations.
• Experience with turbine, aerospace, energy, defense, heavy industrial, or precision machining industries.
• ASQ Certified Quality Engineer (CQE) certification.
• Lean Six Sigma Green Belt or Black Belt certification.
• Experience with SAP, Oracle, or similar ERP systems, Minitab, CMM programming and data analysis, Statistical Process Control, and Process capability analysis (Cp/Cpk).
• Knowledge of welding, fabrication, heat treat, and nondestructive testing processes.