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The Advanced Quality Engineer (AQE) leads quality activities for new parts, new processes, equipment installations, and New Product Introductions (NPI) across U.S.-based refrigeration manufacturing sites. This role is responsible for ensuring new equipment, processes, and product changes are properly qualified, successfully launched, and transitioned to the plant with sustainable long-term ownership.
The AQE serves as a key technical resource for manufacturing quality, applying strong engineering, problem-solving, data analysis, and refrigeration assembly knowledge to address complex quality and process challenges. The ideal candidate is highly analytical and uses data-driven insights to improve process capability, reduce manufacturing variation, and deliver sustainable quality improvements.
This role primarily supports plant operations in LaFayette, GA, with travel to supplier and manufacturing locations as needed.
Position
Advanced Quality Engineer- Cooking
Location
USA, LaFayette, GA
How You'll Create Possibilities
New Product Introduction & Launch
Lead quality activities for new products, parts, processes, and equipment from development through production launch.
Serve as the process quality expert for assigned equipment, parts, joints, and manufacturing processes.
Partner with Advanced Manufacturing Engineering (AME), Design Engineering, Plant Quality, suppliers, and manufacturing teams to ensure successful and sustainable launches.
Lead cross-functional PFMEA activities to identify process risks and ensure appropriate mitigation actions are implemented prior to launch.
Develop and execute qualification plans for new equipment and manufacturing processes in partnership with AME and equipment suppliers.
Review equipment qualification results and provide technical recommendations and approval for equipment readiness prior to shipment and installation.
Travel to supplier and manufacturing sites for planning meetings, equipment runoffs, production trials, and launch support.
Act as a liaison between Product Design and Manufacturing to identify and resolve quality concerns early in the development process.
Ensure new processes and products are fully transitioned to plant ownership with appropriate documentation, controls, and standard work in place.
Equipment & Process Qualification
Own and lead equipment and process qualification activities within the assigned area of responsibility.
Provide technical leadership in the investigation, development, procurement, installation, and implementation of manufacturing equipment and processes.
Qualify in-house equipment with minimal direction and ensure equipment is capable and ready for production use.
Lead dimensional and process capability studies to validate equipment and process performance.
Execute drive, strip, and torque studies on new joints to validate capability, performance, and process robustness.
Identify opportunities to improve process capability, reduce variation, and establish sustainable manufacturing controls.
Partner with equipment suppliers to resolve quality and capability issues prior to production launch.
Metrology & Measurement Systems
Lead gage development for production, including specifications, design reviews, supplier coordination, and final buyoff.
Facilitate gage kickoff meetings with AME, Plant Quality,…