QUALITY ENGINEER

Description

Job Summary: Responsible for ensuring quality in forging processes, coordinating improvements, and supervising quality management systems, with a focus on safety and regulatory compliance. Key Highlights: 1. Leadership in safety and quality in forging processes. 2. Development and maintenance of Quality Assurance programs. 3. Coordination of continuous improvement and resolution of quality issues. **RESPONSIBILITIES:** * Leadership in safety as a personal priority * Attend environmental, health, and safety training as required * Responsible for conducting the furnace survey assessment, along with maintaining records per the Quality Record Control Procedure. * Develop and maintain Quality Assurance programs, specifications, procedures, and equipment to meet customer specifications and Howmet Aerospace quality requirements. * Responsible for implementing quality system procedures used during wheel forging processes and ensuring procedures are followed correctly. * Coordinate any quality issues and improvements. * Responsible for completing flowcharts, change controls, FMEAs, APQP, together with the rest of the forging engineering team. * Responsible for executing PPAPs. * Responsible for maintaining and overseeing SPC, including data entry, reporting, analyzing, and reacting. * Responsible for FPY, scrap and rework performance and trend rate and action plan. * Responsible for reviewing and dispositioning any nonconforming or suspect material per the Nonconforming Material Procedure. * Responsible for tracking A3s and open issues. * Participate in internal audits, corrective actions, and problem solving. * Responsible for complying with the ASAT protocol assigned to them. * Directly responsible for coordinating and leading Quality Department interface team meetings within the process area. * Assist, as needed, in completing various Quality Department documentation. * Assist, as needed, with quality-related matters per the Quality Planning Instructions. * Support incoming inspections and quantity, traceability, and release records for purchased material * Responsible for improvement projects * Responsible for forging and heat treatment processes and controls, ensuring compliance with industry standards. * Responsible for the metallurgical laboratory, including test equipment, test results, and verification of metal chemical composition. * Responsible for the CastHouse Quality System (Control Plan, FMEA, Flowchart) together with the Casthouse engineering team. * Perform functions and responsibilities defined in ISO 14001 procedure P\-0227 * Implement, establish, and maintain environmental, health, and safety policy. * Understand and maintain EHS aspects and Significant EHS Aspects * Responsibility and authority to reject material in case of poor suspicion regarding product quality * Authority to escalate any quality-related issue to management * Assist, as needed, in completing various Quality Department documentation. Full functions and responsibilities defined in ISO 14001 procedure P\-0227 * Assist, as needed, with quality-related matters per the Quality Planning Instructions. * Implement, establish, and maintain environmental, health, and safety policy. * Understand and maintain EHS aspects and Significant EHS Aspects * Responsibility and authority to reject material in case of poor suspicion regarding product quality * Authority to escalate any quality-related issue to management **EXPERIENCE:** 2 years of experience in Forging and MCC processes 2 years of experience in APQP, FMEA, Control Plans, PPAPs, SPC. **EDUCATION** Industrial Engineering – Completed or Incomplete **REQUIRED COMPETENCIES** **SKILLS** Proactive, multidisciplinary, analytical ability, results-oriented, leadership, problem solving * Forging and Cast House processes, polishing, satin finishing, bright finishing, packaging, shipping, tooling, polishing, washers, good part inspection, appearance criteria, good part audit, basic tools, internal auditor, customer-specific requirements. * Quality Policy, APQP, FMEA, Control Plans, PPAP, IATF 16949 standard, Statistical Process Control * Interpretation of ISO 14001:2015 standard * Quality objectives * Training as ISO and Quality internal auditor, process approach, analysis and problem solving, measurement tools * Manufacturing process audits, HWSM legal requirements, EHS Aspects Worksheet / Identification and Evaluation of Significance, Process Risk and Opportunity, Waste Management * EHS Management System Structure and Responsibility (ANEX\-0441\), Corrective and Preventive Action Procedure P\-0013 * Knowledge of Howmet Aerospace Environmental Management System, ASAT \= Audit Self Assessment Tool: Audit self-assessment tool, EHS Management System Structure and Responsibility (ANEX\-0441\) * Understanding of Forging and Cast House process environmental aspects, impacts, and controls * Knowledge of Howmet Aerospace Emergency Response Plan. * Knowledge of applicable legal and other environmental requirements for Forging and Cast House processes * Knowledge of functions and responsibilities defined in ISO 14001 P\-0227 and IATF 16949\. * Knowledge of Risk Communication Program P\-0234\. * Knowledge of Corrective and Preventive Action process per P\-0013 **REQUIRED LANGUAGE:** * Basic to Intermediate English