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.

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