Quality Engineer
Company: Marmon Holdings, Inc.
Location: Cannon Falls
Posted on: May 28, 2023
Job Description:
Cannon Equipment LLC
Come join a team where People make the difference! As a part of
Marmon Holdings, Inc., a highly decentralized organization, we rely
heavily on people with the aptitude, attitude, and entrepreneurial
spirit to drive our success, and we're committed to attracting and
retaining top talent.
Welcome to Cannon Equipment
Cannon Falls, Minnesota is our home, and it has been for over 50
years. We are proud of our history, and we embrace our role in the
local community. We have become one of the area's largest employers
- and we're still growing! In 2014, Cannon Equipment was acquired
by Marmon Holdings, a division of the Berkshire Hathaway Company.
Marmon is a global, diversified organization of manufacturing and
service businesses that vary in geography and culture-with
operations in big cities and small towns across the globe-and in
their products, services, and markets.
This partnership provides extensive value to our customers.
Marmon's strong financial position and access to capital enables
our business to grow strategically via innovation, internal
investment, and acquisition while experiencing the service and
agility of a small business.
Why work in a small town? Big things can happen in small towns -
plus no traffic!
We are located just off Hwy 52, 30 miles south or Saint Paul or 40
miles north or Rochester. While we may appear small, we are a part
of The Marmon Group and Berkshire Hathaway Company
Come Work with Us
Do you like to have fun plus deliver results? Are you detailed
oriented? Do you like a fast-paced environment? If you entered yes,
this may be the opportunity for you.
The Quality Engineer is responsible for developing and implementing
the Quality Management System for Cannon Equipment as well as
leading change and driving results through product quality and
process improvement. Working closely with customer facing and
manufacturing functions, the Quality Engineer will identify and
implement initiatives through operational leaders and suppliers
that improve processes and build system efficiencies.
Essential Functions
- Enhance and improve the quality of the company's products and
services by establishing, maintaining and optimizing an effective
quality management system, assuring compliance with customer and
regulatory requirements and the standards of excellence on which
the Cannon Equipment brand has been built.
- Implement problem solving tools, prevention methods,
quality-at-the-source and continual improvement techniques such as
NPI (new product introduction), CO (change order), incoming
inspection process, NCR (nonconforming reporting), SPC (statistical
process control), and calibration control.
- Implement the performance measurements necessary to effectively
evaluate organizational performance and trends in product quality,
services, customer satisfaction and the cost of poor quality. Use
the results of performance evaluation to target improvement
efforts.
- Support concurrent engineering efforts by participating in
design development projects.
- Promote and execute quality standards, inspection processes,
test methodology, quality plans, documents and reports.
- Lead process certification.
- Review customers purchase orders, contracts and change requests
and ensure that the necessary criteria and provisions are included
in quality and process plans.
- Participate and coordinate internal and external quality
audits.
- Function as a liaison between sourcing, engineering,
manufacturing and suppliers, resolving quality issues related to
parts and components process quality, in and outside of the
USA.
- Develop positive relationships and work closely with strategic
sourcing to on-board and manage new and existing suppliers, leading
qualification process and on-going surveillance.
- Provide supplier quality functional and cross-functional
leadership, training, and mentoring.
- Maintain a corrective action system to analyze and correct
nonconforming conditions and complaints
- Investigate all customer complaints and interface with supplier
and customer quality representatives concerning problems with
quality assurance and assure that effective corrective action is
implemented.
- Compile, write and deliver training material on quality
standards and activities
- Identify and work on a portfolio of project(s) to improve
operational processes and build system efficiencies, providing
status updates, feedback and appropriate reporting.
- Actively lead and coach product and other internal
cross-functional project teams to analyze, design and implement end
to end processes, facilitating continuous process improvement.
Skills & Abilities: Education, Experience, Knowledge, Skills and
other Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering, electrical
engineering, manufacturing engineering or relevant area (or
Associate degree in these fields plus minimum 4 years industrial
experience).
- Minimum 5 years of experience in an operational, lean, or
quality role in a manufacturing environment.
- Minimum of 2 years' experience working with quality improvement
tools and techniques (i.e., Lean, Six Sigma, Statistical Process
Control, and Failure Mode & Effects Analysis).
- Experience conducting and/or supporting internal and external
quality audits.
- Must be able to effectively communicate, influence and train
co-workers, customers, and suppliers in USA and abroad in the
operation of the Quality Management System.
- Broad knowledge of theory and principles of statistics and
statistical process control.
- Ability to solve practical problems and deal with a variety of
variables in situations where only limited standardization
exists.
- Ability to interpret a variety of instructions furnished in
written, oral, diagram, or schedule form. License or Certification
Preferred:
- Certification by the American Society for Quality (ASQ) as a
Certified Quality Engineer (CQE), or Certified Quality Manager
(CQM).
- Certified Six Sigma Black Belt (CSSBB). Great Benefits!
Starting on DAY 1
- Health, dental & vision insurance
- Company paid disability and life insurance
- Vacation and 10 holidays
- Tuition reimbursement $5250/year
- 401k with a 100% match on the first 3% and 50% on 4 & 5%; no
vesting schedule
Cannon Equipment - A Member of The Marmon Group and Berkshire
Hathaway Company
An Equal Opportunities Employer - Minorities, Women, Veterans,
Disabilities
VEVRAA Federal Contractor
Following receipt of a conditional offer of employment, candidates
will be required to complete additional job-related screening
processes as permitted or required by applicable law.
We are an equal opportunity employer, and all applicants will be
considered for employment without attention to their membership in
any protected class. If you require any reasonable accommodation to
complete your application or any part of the recruiting process,
please email your request to careers@marmon.com, and please be sure
to include the title and the location of the position for which you
are applying.
Keywords: Marmon Holdings, Inc., Minneapolis , Quality Engineer, Engineering , Cannon Falls, Minnesota
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