Lead Quality Engineer

Wabtec Corporation is a leading global provider of equipment, systems, digital solutions and value-added services for freight and transit rail. Drawing on nearly four centuries of collective experience across Wabtec, GE Transportation and Faiveley Transport, the company has unmatched digital expertise, technological innovation, and world-class manufacturing and services, enabling the digital-rail-and-transit ecosystems. Wabtec is focused on performance that drives progress, creating transportation solutions that move and improve the world. Wabtec has approximately 27,000 employees in facilities throughout the world. Visit the company's new website at: http://www.WabtecCorp.com.
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The mission of the Lead Quality Engineer is to ensure that products manufactured in the shop are capable and will meet specified quality standards. Understanding of manufacturing processes for analysis of non-conforming parts to identify root causes and address appropriate corrective actions. Keep communication with customers internal and external customers to track solution of non-conformities and implement effective corrective actions that will prevent recurrence in the future and coordinate Quality Inspector on the shop.
Duties and Responsibilities:

• Drive culture of quality and process discipline.
• Analyze non-conformity issues and provide a disposition of parts, follow up in the quality system until completion of disposition.
• Lead containment activities to minimize customer impact.
• Perform root cause analysis and corrective action to prevent recurrence in production line.
• Lead activities to ensure execution to quality metrics within assigned area.
• Establish and execute quality plan for compliance with international quality standards (ISO-9001, AAR, IRIS, etc.)
• Establish quality control plans to drive proactive quality improvements in area of responsibility.
• Work on project(s) to improve process control, reduce defects, scrap and rework in the shop.
• Monitor and report quality KPIs lead propose and lead action plans to improve product or process quality.
• Lead Hourly people on the floor and maintain payroll system.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree from an accredited university, from Mechanical, Electrical, Industrial Engineering, or similar career.
• 3-5 years experience in Quality Assurance or similar roles

Desired Characteristics:

• Experience on castings, c-class, metallics, machining or similar
• Experience on Lead/Supervisor hourly people and interaction with multidisciplinary areas
• Experience on continues improvement (Lean Manufacturing)
• Experience with corrective action activities (5-Why, 8D, Etc.)
• Experience on incoming inspection and calibration lab areas
• Able to work in a cross-functional matrix environment.
• Blueprint reading
• Understanding of Gauging concepts and measurement techniques
• Experience with any Quality System, Software or ERP systems
• Fluent English with oral and written communication skills.

Competencies, Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• Experience or good knowledge of Manufacturing assembly processes.
• Experience or good knowledge of Microsoft Office (Excel, Power Point, Word, etc).
• Knowledge of Lean Six Sigma or Quality tools. Green belt or black belt certification preferred.
• Certified Internal Auditor.
• Ability to coordinate several projects/tasks simultaneously.
• Effective problem identification and solution skills.
• Ability to lead/coordinate hourly people.

Authority: Defined decision-making level. The Plant GM is the main authority at site level. To be able to give authority, any employee in the organization shall first receive it from their manager or upper level, up to the General Manager.

• Authority to update, approve, and release product quality documentation.
• Authority to disposition any material on the floor.

All WPT employees have the authority to stop the process they are performing, should the process become unsafe or the outputs nonconforming.
Physical Demands: (The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.)

• Employee is required to stand for up to 4 hours per day.
• Employee is regularly required to lift and/or move up to 25 pounds, and occasionally lift and/or move 50 pounds.
• Requires daily face-to-face interaction with employees on production line.

Work Environment: (The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job.)

• Office and manufacturing environments.
• May involve exposure to cold and hot temperatures, humidity, dust, vapors, fumes, vibration, and other loud noises from the plant. The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job.
• Is occasionally exposed to fumes or airborne particles, toxic or caustic chemicals, and loud noise.

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