quality engineer Beaverton, OR
Job description
With over 90 years of customer-focused performance, Boyd Corporation has evolved as a market leader in engineered rubber, plastic, metal, flexible environmental sealing & energy management solutions. Boyd is a unique supplier, valuing our people as our most important resource. With our best-in-class technical sales associates, sales support service teams & field application, quality, & manufacturing engineers, Boyd offers total global solutions to enhance the performance & manufacturability of your products. Our cost-effective, tight-tolerance, global manufacturing capabilities ensure superior total landed cost as well as reliability throughout the product life cycle.
Job Summary
Pursue and solve quality problems and implement quality improvements.
Essential Job Responsibilities
- Conduct, monitor, and evaluate first article inspections, DOE, CPK, and GR&R data then prepares related reports for customers and internal engineering/production teams.
- Conduct measurements and use statistical methods to report inspection results, product failures and problems.
- Assist manufacturing and engineering towards quality improvement.
- Work together with engineering to ensure that manufacturing processes and equipment have sufficient capability to meet quality requirements by analyzing process capability studies, control charts and other statistical data.
- Investigate nonconforming material and work closely with engineering/production for prompt disposition and correction of the cause for nonconformance.
- Investigate and/or champion corrective, preventative, and process procedures.
- Conduct internal and external audits per documented procedures.
Additional Job Responsibilities
- Perform other work-related duties as assigned.
Required Education and Experience
- Bachelor of Science in related technical field preferred.
- Minimum of two years experience within a plastics environment required.
Required Skills
- Strong decision-making skills a must.
- Ability to work under time constraints with changing priorities.
- Working knowledge of common quality statistical tools, techniques and reporting structures.
- Ability to read blueprints.
- Knowledge of ISO9000 requirements.
- Excellent oral, written, computer and interpersonal skills. Communication is by phone and in person.
- Geometric dimensioning and tolerance skills.
- Understanding of injection molded processes.
- Regular and predictable attendance.
- Experience using a PC including intermediate knowledge of Microsoft Office and the Internet.
Required Education and Experience
- Bachelor of Science in related technical field preferred.
- Minimum of two years experience within a plastics environment required.
Required Skills
- Strong decision-making skills a must.
- Ability to work under time constraints with changing priorities.
- Working knowledge of common quality statistical tools, techniques and reporting structures.
- Ability to read blueprints.
- Knowledge of ISO9000 requirements.
- Excellent oral, written, computer and interpersonal skills. Communication is by phone and in person.
- Geometric dimensioning and tolerance skills.
- Understanding of injection molded processes.
- Regular and predictable attendance.
- Experience using a PC including intermediate knowledge of Microsoft Office and the Internet.
