Job Description:
Job Description
Brooks Instrument ( www.brooksinstrument.com ), an industry leader in flow and pressure instrumentation for critical applications, is seeking candidates for a Quality Engineer position that will be based at the company headquarters in Hatfield, Pennsylvania (suburban Philadelphia). The company has manufacturing locations in Pennsylvania, Hungary, Malaysia, and Korea, and also maintains sales and service offices throughout the world. Our high-tech products are used in laboratory and process applications in end markets such as: oil & gas, petrochemical, medical devices, waste water, life sciences, and analytical instruments.
Brooks is a division of ITW (Illinois Tool Works), a fortune 200 company. ITW is one of the world’s leading diversified manufacturers of specialized industrial equipment, consumables, and related service businesses. The company has operations in 56 countries and employs over 50,000 employees. These talented employees, many of whom have specialized engineering or scientific expertise, contribute to ITW’s global leadership in innovation. The company is proud of its broad portfolio of nearly 10,000 active patents, and is focused on fully leveraging its highly differentiated business model to deliver solid growth with consistent best-in-class margins and return on capital.
Basic Functions
Serve as the point of contact for quality control planning, development, application, and maintenance of quality standards for processing materials into finished product. Receive only broad supervision from the department manager and must be capable of advanced decision-making in the manager’s absence. Product/industry knowledge is broad and support is often given to other departments as needed. Major challenges include support of the division quality function concurrent with:
Business growth
Best business practices
Introduction of new products and processes
Meeting division continuous improvement goals
Achieving customer satisfaction
Essential Duties and Responsibility
Performs basic quality engineering functions, quality audits and sets quality standards for both in-process and finished products and materials.
Reports on quality analyses, product or process non-conformance issues, and recommends necessary corrective actions and procedure changes.
Interface with the plant management staff to ensure that quality improvement activities are in sync with plant quality and operational objectives.
Interface with all hourly employees, supervisors, department managers and division personnel while leading and coordinating improvement activities.
Coordinate the resolution of product quality concerns (process/customer) and facilitate responsiveness to customers.
Participate in the review of customer documentation to identify and ensure fulfillment of copy exact requirements.
Coordinate and evaluate annual product validations.
Support and promote Continuous Improvement Process (CIP) activities.
Verify and approve all department operation instructions and provide the necessary support for a complete understanding of the operation instructions and their application.
Support customer in 8D responses and regular quality resolution update meetings.
Develop/monitor first pass yield reports, scrap reports, and process audit reports.
Initiate engineering deviation requests and product change notices.
Determine that manufacturing processes and equipment have sufficient capability to meet customer quality requirements by analyzing capability studies, control charts, and other statistical data.
Employ statistical process controls and techniques to reduce scrap/rework and to drive continuous improvement.
Participate in the review of design, manufacturing, and test documentation to ensure that applicable system and contract quality requirements are met.
Develop sampling plans, design forms for recording, evaluating, and reporting quality data, and write instructions on the use of such forms.
Initiate plans,…