Employment Opportunities

 

Posted 11/18/08

 

POSITION TITLE:

Quality Engineer

 

 

LOCATION:

Greenland, Tennessee

 

 

Reporting Relationship:

Quality Manager

 

 

OUR CLIENT:

With headquarters in Alpharetta, Ga., AGC Flat Glass North America is a major supplier to the construction and specialty glass markets.  Formerly AFG Industries Inc., AGC Flat Glass North America is a subsidiary of Asahi Glass Co. Ltd., one of the world's largest float-glass organizations. Our customers benefit from our global connections with sister companies in Europe and Asia. With a world of product possibilities, AGC can provide the perfect solution for your unique needs —backed by extraordinary service and support.

 

AGC offers the broadest product line in the flat-glass industry — supporting residential, commercial, specialty and automotive glass markets. AGC offers clear and tinted flat-glass products, patterned glass, energy-efficient coated glass, tempered and laminated products, insulating window units, and specialty products such as touch-panel and solar glass.

 

A leader in product innovation, AGC has designed and assembled an array of advanced products to address recent market demands for low emissivity, increased solar control, a greater variety of hurricane and blast resistant products, continuous glazing and enhanced visibility for fire-rated products, and low-iron and heavy-patterned options for interior-design applications.

 

Outstanding product quality, dedicated customer service and the creation of innovative new products have always been central to the AGC vision. These principles have helped AGC to rise above the historic view of flat glass as a "commodity" business — and to differentiate its practical, value-added products in an increasingly crowded marketplace.

For more details, please visit http://www.na.agc-flatglass.com

 

 

SCOPE AND

RESPONSIBILITIES:

JOB SUMMARY:

 

Support the facility operations implementing various quality functions.  This support includes driving root cause analysis of any problems, driving/leading project improvement teams, supporting manufacturing in their functions, facilitating the use of effective problem solving tools, i.e. SPC, 8D, 5P, DOE, FMEA.

 

PRINCIPAL RESPONSIBILITIES:

 

·    Learn and understand the manufacturing process

·    Support a safe and continuous improvement culture in production

·    Coordinate and participate in Product Acceptance, Control Plans, FMEA’s and Process Capability Studies to assure product meets customer’s expectations

·    Analyze quality performance data/trends to identify the root cause of problems and drive corrective action

·    Establish required data collection processes to assure effective process management and process control plans are in place

·    Develop and deploy required processes/procedures in support of the quality system

·    Conduct system audits of our QMS (quality management system)

·    Train associates in the use of various quality tools/techniques

·    Maintain expected behavior and performance with regard to company’s mission and core value(s) system as documented and communicated when employed and daily thereafter

·    Participate in customer and third party certification, i.e. ISO, TS16949

·    Work within the company policies to manage the quality assurance aspects of new product introduction

·    Provide oversight of the manufacture of products to ensure that documentation is consistent with manufacturing methods employed

·    Develop test methods/procedures to support product validation efforts

·    Maintain test equipment to traceable standards accepted in the glass industry

·    Generate test reports of performance validation tests

·    Communicate with customers and travel as required

·    Manage and coordinate product acceptance calibration

 

 

EXPERIENCE

REQUIRED:

·         3 plus years of experience in a manufacturing environment developing and monitoring quality systems and processes.  p.

·         Current knowledge of quality technologies, systems, software, processes, and gauges.

·         Automotive experience is an asset.

  • Six Sigma certification, 5-S and Lean experience a plus.

 

 

EDUCATION:

B.S. Degree in Engineering

 

 

TO APPLY

Interested and qualified applicants should remit a resume to

 

Cindy Hanifen  |  Senior Recruiter

Tel: 972-383-1605    

Cindy.Hanifen@Futurestep.com

 

Futurestep, a Korn/Ferry Company

Strategic Talent Acquisition

www.futurestep.com

           

 

 

Validation Quality Engineer

Dentsply Tulsa Dental Specialties

608 Rolling Hills Dr.

Johnson City, TN 37604

Melanie.Wright@Dentsply.com

Posted 11/3/08 to 11/28/08

 

Dentsply Tulsa Dental Specialties is regarded as the world’s leading manufacturer and provider of endodontic products and services and we are looking for a highly skilled Validation Quality Engineer for our manufacturing facility in Johnson City, Tennessee.

 

Description

Under the direction of the Quality Assurance Manager, follows quality control guidelines and procedures to develop and execute the site Validation Master Plan (VMP) for all software and processes. Assists in the design and implementation of policies and procedures for evaluating and validating test methods used in product manufacture and process validation. Ensures projects are completed on time and within budget. Supports product development team regarding projects, tasks, and operations.

 

Requirements

• Develops site Validation Master Plan and executes plan within priorities and timelines defined in the plan.
• Performs process risk assessments (pFMEA) to determine risk levels and define appropriate methods and actions to mitigate risks.
• Works with manufacturing, distribution, R&D, and engineering to define validation priorities and utilizes these other functional areas to successfully complete the validations
• Establishes programs to evaluate precision and accuracy of production equipment for testing, measurement, and analytical equipment and facilities.
• Reviews and may prepare, qualification and validation test plans and reports for assigned projects, including, if required, reliability assessment. Assure the resolution of issues raised by the testing.
• Ensures accurate project schedules are maintained and communicated to both internal and external management.
• Develops, implements, manages, and tracks effectiveness of corrective action plans and compliance improvement initiatives.
• Designs and implements quality control process sampling systems, procedures, and statistical techniques including Design of Experiments.
• Assesses, provides recommendations, and leads implementation of systems, processes and equipment for improvement and compliance to cGMP and ISO 13485:2003 within the R&D, Operations, Quality and Regulatory processes to ensure safe and effective products are produced. Provides written reports and supporting documentation for recommendations.
• Provides validation quality engineering support to the product development team. Works closely with R&D and Operations to develop and implement appropriate risk management, qualification, verification and validation plans. Ensures the transfer of R&D projects meets manufacturability requirements.
• Leads problem solving efforts to identify and resolve recurring and new process related issues to ensure production of safe and effective medical devices.
• Performs machine and process capability and performance studies; recommends and upon approval, implements changes and upgrades to systems, procedures or processes to improve product quality.
• Performs statistical analysis of data and write technical reports.
• Supports company goals and objectives, policies and procedures in compliance with quality systems, FDA regulations and MDD requirements.
• Reports complaints in accordance to complaint handling process.
• Performs other duties as necessary.