Quality Engineer

High Level Statement of the Role

Provide technical expertise and guidance to support and continuously improve quality planning activities including customer and supplier activities, assisting in Corrective Action activities, quality reporting, and pursuing continuous improvement for Quality Engineer at Kimball International.

Roles and Responsibilities

• Provide technical expertise, support and guidance for quality activities.
• Understand and provide customer support and supplier direction.
• Assist in continuous improvement of quality staff.
• Facilitate quality meetings.
• Responsible for quality reporting.
• Lead SPC activities.
• Assist in corrective actions and problem solving.
• Drive process improvements to achieve operational excellence.
• Mentor and develop team members.
• Achieve performance measures on scorecards.
• Support Vision, Guiding Principles, and Quality System policies.
• Support Environmental Management System (EMS).

Qualifications

Educational: BSME or BSIE preferred; 1-2 years quality engineering or related experience.

Skills to Perform This Role:

Interpersonal Skills: Team oriented, strong drive for success, customer centric, high integrity, humor in workplace, relationship building, flexible, tactful, assertive, positive attitude, patient, honest and ethical.

Communication Skills: Good listener, effective communication, negotiation, persuasive, adaptive to change, relationship builder, and ability to motivate.

Business Skills: Understands impact on results, results focused, meets deadlines, environmentally conscious.

Technical Skills: Follows job safety guidelines, reads drawings, uses gauges and measuring devices, computer literate, and identifies nonconformities.

Key skills/competency

Quality, Engineering, Continuous Improvement, SPC, Reporting, Corrective Action, Mentoring, Customer Support, Process Improvement, EMS