The Quality Engineer is responsible for ensuring quality requirements are achieved throughout the manufacturing process for large-format machined components.
Compensation
Est. Pay Range: 45.00 – 48.38/hr. USD
Responsibilities
Ensure compliance with company quality standards, customer specifications, and applicable industry requirements
Develop and maintain quality plans, inspection plans, control plans, and quality procedures
Participate in internal and external audits and support corrective actions resulting from audit findings
Provide daily support to large-format machining operations including CNC horizontal boring mills, gantry mills, vertical turning centers, and multi-axis machining centers
Review manufacturing processes to ensure compliance with engineering drawings, GD&T requirements, work instructions, and customer specifications
Develop, deploy, and sustain the factory Continuous Improvement System, enabling quality, delivery, safety, and productivity improvements.
Compensation
Minimum annual salary: €39.000,00
Variable Pay: Eligible for Company Productivity Bonus
Responsibilities
Defining, implementing, and sustaining the factory Continuous Improvement System and shopfloor management routines, including daily and weekly reviews and Gemba walks.
Establishing and improving operating standards, visual management, and a structured system to capture, prioritize, and track improvement ideas.
Facilitating Kaizen activities and cross-functional improvement teams, with a strong focus on measurable and sustainable results.
Implementing and auditing 5S, supporting process stability, waste reduction, improved flow, and the consistent application of Lean standards.
Providing methodological support for pull-flow solutions, including Kanban and Storeban, and improving internal material flow with Planning and Logistics.
Maintain, improve, and ensure compliance of the plant's Quality Management System in accordance with IATF 16949, ISO 9001, customer-specific requirements (CSRs), company policies as well as applicable regulatory requirements. This role coordinates internal audits, external audits, corrective actions, management reviews, and document control activities while promoting a culture of continual improvement throughout the organization.
Responsibilities
Maintain and continuously improve the Quality Management System (QMS) to ensure compliance with IATF 16949, ISO 9001, customer-specific requirements, applicable regulatory standards, and Eaton Quality System requirements.
Coordinate and maintain all activities required to sustain ISO 9001 and IATF 16949 certifications, ensuring ongoing audit readiness and compliance.
Coordinate certification, surveillance, customer, corporate, and regulatory audits, serving as the primary point of contact and ensuring timely and effective closure of audit findings.
Serve as the Management Representative by reporting QMS performance, risks, opportunities, and improvement initiatives to senior leadership.
Establish, deploy, and maintain effective quality system processes, including Document Control, Records Management, Internal Audits, Management Review, Corrective Actions, Calibration and Metrology, and Customer-Specific Requirements.
Help to drive operational excellence across processes, systems, and teams by blending problem solving with data analytics and Lean methodology to eliminate waste, improve flow, and strengthen performance.
Responsibilities
Support Kaizen events, value stream mapping, and rapid improvement workshops
Coach teams on Lean tools (5S, standard work, visual management, SMED, Kanban)
Support deployment of CI roadmaps, maturity assessments, and cultural adoption
Analyze current processes using time studies, spaghetti diagrams, and workflow analysis
Identify bottlenecks, waste, and variation; propose and implement optimized solutions
Support new product launches by qualifying new suppliers, resolve quality holds, review supplier quality data, investigate failures, conduct audits, approve inspections, work with suppliers on root cause analysis, maintain scorecards and lists.
Support the Quality Department at the Tenneco Blacksburg facility by assisting with quality assurance, product inspection, data analysis, corrective actions, documentation, and continuous improvement activities.
Responsibilities
Assist Quality Engineers and Quality leadership with daily plant quality activities
Support inspections, audits, product verification, and quality checks throughout the manufacturing process
Assist with the collection, organization, analysis, and reporting of quality data
Monitor quality KPIs, including scrap, defects, rework, first-pass yield, customer complaints, and internal nonconformances
Participate in root cause analysis and corrective action activities using methods such as 5 Why, Fishbone Analysis, and 8D
Act as the key quality interface with the assigned customer and coordinate internal quality activities across one or more production programs throughout the product lifecycle.
Compensation
Salary range for this role: 39.675,00 euro - 59.512,50 euro + Performance-related bonus + PDR up to 6000 euro
Responsibilities
Serve as the primary quality interface for an assigned customer and one or more production programs
Manage Avio Aero’s quality rating on the customer portal, quality-related communications, customer complaints, reported quality issues, and customer audits
Coordinate quality activities throughout all phases of New Product Introduction (NPI), including product qualification and process validation
Provide manufacturing quality support for designated products within assigned programs
Manage product nonconformities throughout the component lifecycle
Requirements
Master’s degree in Mechanical, Aeronautical, Aerospace, or Industrial Engineering
Nice to have: Lean Six Sigma certification (Green Belt or higher)
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