Process Quality Engineer - Monticello, United States - Jordan Manufacturing

Description

Start & Build Your Career at Jordan Manufacturing

Jordan Manufacturing Company has been creating innovative outdoor products and providing exceptional customer service for over 45 years, and our success starts with our team. As a growing family-owned and -operated business, we welcome employees of diverse backgrounds and experiences to join us. Jordan Manufacturing supports our team by recognizing achievement and promoting from within, ensuring a work-life balance, collaborating to achieve excellence, operating with integrity and prioritizing safety every day.

Giving back to the community and to our team are also a tradition at Jordan Manufacturing. We hold annual food drives and support local charities, and celebrate our employees with appreciation lunches, achievement awards, core value awards and holiday gift baskets each year.

Why should you join the Jordan Manufacturing family? We truly value every member of our team and strive to live and work by our core values:

• Celebrate: Recognize our achievements, learn from our mistakes
• Healthy Balance: When your life works, your work works
• Always Collaborate: Teamwork makes the dream work
• Integrity: Doing what is right, not necessarily what is easy
• Safety: It's everyone's responsibility
• Excellence: It's not a skill, it's an attitude

Benefits

Jordan Manufacturing offers a great work environment and benefits for full-time employees, including:

• Paid Holidays
• Paid Time Off (PTO)
• Paid Bereavement Leave
• Military and Jury Duty Leave
• 401k with Safe Harbor Match
• Health Insurance
• Vision & Dental Insurance
• HSA and FSA Options
• Employee Assistance Program
• Life Insurance
• Short- and Long-Term Disability
• Referral Program
• Attendance Bonuses (Operations)
• Achievement and Core Values Awards
• Employee Appreciation Lunches
• Holiday Gift Baskets

Additional benefits for Admin/Non-Operations employees include:

• Remote and/or Hybrid Work
• Flexible Schedule
• Home Office Equipment

Job Title: Quality Process Engineer

Job Purpose: The Quality Process Engineer is responsible for the overall fast-paced global manufacturing operation. The Engineer's primary responsibilities will be platforming a foundation that will ultimately drive the build out and execution of a plant QMS program. The Engineer will ensure quality process implementation will keep lean standard safe work methods top of mind. The Engineer will uphold and practice safe work habits to ensure the manufacturing operations are as safe and efficient as possible.

Reports To: Global Director of Operations

Location: This position is located at the Corporate Headquarters in Monticello, IN

Department: Global Operations

Classification: Full-time, Exempt

Job Duties and Responsibilities:

• Build foundational quality processes, disciplines, and drive sustained execution through every step of the quality control process within all facets of the global operation.
• Measure, test, analyze, build, and standardize quality processes, keeping an eye on equipment efficiencies and product flow to dramatically improve organizational performance.
• Develop consistent quality standards and best practice execution to ensure those internal standards are met and link to customer specific requirements.
• Implementing methods to inspect, assess and evaluate products and production equipment.
• Training and managing production line staff in best process practices and quality assessment of goods.
• Establish and engage plant floor champions to be a part of the quality process improvement.
• Create and implement visual process and metric management to sustain quality controls.
• Performing detailed and recorded inspections of final products so the products are up to industry and company standards.
• Eliminating products that are not up to standard and root cause problem solving.
• Establish vendor inspections and associated quality specifications to eliminate problems before they enter the operational value stream.
• Contributes to setting key performance indicators for the plant that align with organizational goals and reviews progress toward these goals with the plant management on a frequent basis.
• Responsible for executing lean process principles and visual management throughout the plants.
• Works cross functionally to solve problems and drive process improvements.
• Works with operations management to ensure measurement systems are built into the production teams.
• Ensure quality process control implementation training is carried through to the production workforce.
• Create and maintain quality metrics and analyze data to assess performance and implement improvements throughout the production process.
• Champion cross functional ways of working to promote seamless customer service and best practice quality processes.
• Drive methods for improvement such as lean manufacturing and six sigma.
• Performs other duties as required.

Required Qualifications

Education

· BS in Project Management, Engineering, QMS, or similar relevant field.

Experience

• 3-5 years working experience as a quality thought leader with proven results.
• Experience supporting crucial decision making in high pressure situations.
• Experience managing customer quality specifications, including customer sustainability initiatives.

Knowledge, Skills, & Abilities

• Demonstrated ability to influence cross functional and operational teams driving quality improvements throughout the system.
• Excellent analytical, problem solving and organizational skills.
• Ability to work cross functionally and manage multiple projects that deliver on time.
• Have a deep understanding of quality systems and processes.
• Organized, proactive, and motivating influential team leader.
• Computer experience in ERP systems, reporting, and MS Office.
• Strong communications, writing, and interpersonal skills.
• High EQ.
• Must be team and goal oriented.

Preferred Qualifications

• Lean Certified and Six Sigma preferred.
• Bilingual Spanish or Creole is a plus.

Working Conditions

Environment

• Located in the Monticello, IN factory.
• Position is in a factory setting as well as in an office setting.
• May require travel to other company facilities.

Essential physical requirements

· Frequent sitting, standing, walking, and lifting for a long period of time throughout the day.

As part of the hiring process, Jordan Manufacturing may conduct a background check and pre-employment drug screen with an applicant's signed consent. The background check may consist of prior employment verification, reference checks, education confirmation, criminal background, or other information, as permitted by law. Results of any pre-employment check will be considered as part of the hiring process, but may not necessarily disqualify a candidate from employment. Third-party services may be hired to perform these checks. All offers of employment and continued employment are contingent upon a satisfactory background check.