Sr Advanced Quality Engineer - Fall Protection
Milwaukee Tool · Milwaukee, WI
- Level
- Senior
- Team
- Quality
- Degree
- Required (or equivalent experience)
- Experience asked
- 2+ years
- Industry
- Industrial
- Posted
- Recently
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A senior quality role at Milwaukee Tool (industrial) in Milwaukee, WI.
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- 2+ years · degree required (or equivalent experience)
- Tools it names
- SPC, FMEA, Control plans, GD&T, DOE, Minitab
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Responsibilities
Serve as the Sr. Team lead for the Quality and Reliability function while supporting process improvement initiatives.
requirements
into product performance and design specifications.
- ✓Apply robust understanding of OSHA, ANSI/ASSP, and EN regulatory compliance ensuring critical safety products protect end users and meet all applicable regulations.
- ✓Support the product design process including benchmarking and testing of concepts & prototypes.
- ✓Develop and execute risk-based test procedures to validate product specifications and ensure Quality and Reliability readiness.
- ✓Lead Risk Assessments (Design and Manufacturing) during the product development cycle.
- ✓Draw concise, logical, written conclusions from experiments based on data analysis
- ✓Perform failure analysis and recommend solutions with corrective action, as required.
- ✓Proactively seek out quality improvements for new and existing products.
requirements
for safety critical products with various teams at both internal and supplier facilities.
- ✓Lead supplier evaluation, process qualification, capability assessment, manufacturing readiness, and quality planning for global suppliers and manufacturing sites
- ✓Collaborate with US, European, and Asian based manufacturing and supplier representatives to ensure operational readiness of new product launches.
- ✓Participate in the evaluation and selection of suppliers.
- ✓Able to call, lead and conduct global, cross functional team members with the following participants: New product development engineering, internal/external operations/suppliers, quality and supply chain.
Requirements
Master’s or equivalent degree in Mechanical, Industrial, Manufacturing/Production, Materials Engineering or related engineering field and 2 years of relevant experience or Bachelor’s or equivalent degree in Mechanical, Industrial, Manufacturing/Production, Materials Engineering or related engineering field and 5 years of relevant experience. Experience must include:
- ✓Regulated new product development environment.
- ✓Research and development with soft goods, natural or synthetic materials that are flexible including but not limited to textiles, foams, rubber, films or equivalent.
- ✓Manufacturing quality experience in a regulated product field
- ✓Test development and execution experience in a regulated product field
- ✓Engineering tools such as Critical to Quality/Quality Function Deployment, Geometric Dimensioning and Tolerancing (GD&T), Statistical Process Control (SPC), Design of Experiments (DOE), Control Plans, Risk Analysis through Failure Modes Effects Analysis (FMEA) and metrology methods
- ✓Statistical tools such as MiniTab
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Job Description
Come be DISRUPTIVE with us! At Milwaukee Tool, our most valued resource is our dedicated team of employees - employees who work with a passion to be the best and an unparalleled pride in their work and in the Milwaukee brand. We know that the only way to sustain growth and success is to value the growth and success of each person within the organization that's why we invest in an individual's growth and development from day one.
All our teams touch every step of the process, that is why our Engineering teams are some of the key contributors to our continuous innovations. The fast-paced, agile environment continuously delivers disruptive technologies by providing every team with the resources needed to excel and working directly with End Users to understand how to deliver heavy-duty products with high performance. We create Best-in-class products by leveraging advanced analysis tools, extensive testing regimes, state-of-the-art manufacturing processes and cross-functional agility.
The Sr. Advanced Quality Engineer – Fall Protection provides quality and reliability engineering leadership to cross-functional project teams developing and manufacturing occupational fall-protection products. The AQE directly interfaces with New Product Development, Product Support, and Value Engineering teams. Primary duties are to lead and direct the quality activities of project teams to successfully meet Project Quality Objectives as well as project goals including Time-To-Market, Cost, and Performance for this highly regulated and safety critical category.
Reliability Functions
- •Collaborate with Engineering, Marketing, and Regulatory teams to translate customer needs and regulatory
Quality Functions - New Product team
- •Work with global operations, materials, manufacturing engineering, and quality engineering teams to develop QC mitigation strategies for high-risk specifications.
- •Establish Critical to Quality (CTQ) characteristics and controls for high strength textile-based products.
- •Provide technical guidance to develop manufacturing, inspection, and testing