Advanced Quality Engineer

Job Description:

At Milwaukee Tool we firmly believe that our People and our Culture are the secrets to our success -- so we give you unlimited access to everything you need to create disruptive new technologies and solutions on our engineering teams. Our Engineering Team is responsible for giving life to the batteries, motors, and electronics that power solutions changing the lives of our users. Every developmental phase of these critical components happens in-house under the watch of this team. We continue to invest in engineering resources to design and develop leadership in engineering capabilities; something unique within the industry, and we're pushing the limits.

Behind our doors you'll be empowered every day to own it, drive it, and do what it takes to design and develop the biggest breakthroughs in the industry. Meanwhile, you'll have the support and resources of the fastest-growing brand in the construction industry to make it happen.

The Advanced Quality Engineer provides quality engineering services to cross-functional project teams; primarily Product Support and Value Engineering teams, with the ability to support New Product Development Engineering teams as needed. In this role, project team members are led by a Project Leader and include Engineering, Marketing, Purchasing, Quality, and Manufacturing. 
Primary duties are to lead and direct the quality activities including; supplier quality/operational development, manufacturing process improvements, engineering drawing review, test procedure development, and measurement analysis to successfully meet project goals including time-to-market, cost, and performance.

Duties and Responsibilities: 
Serve as the project team lead for the Quality and Reliability function while supporting process improvement initiatives.

Reliability Functions:

• Collaborate with Engineering and Marketing to translate customer needs into product requirements and specifications.

• Support the product design process including benchmarking and testing of concepts & prototypes.

• Develop and execute test procedures to validate product specifications and ensure Quality and Reliability readiness.

• Lead Risk Assessments (Design and Manufacturing) during the product development cycle.

• Perform failure analysis and recommend solutions with corrective action, as required.

• Proactively seek out quality improvements for new and existing products.

Quality Functions – Post Launch team:

• Work with the global quality teams to develop QC mitigation strategies for high risk specifications.

• Coordinate and validate quality planning activities such as auditing, inspection, and control plans (incoming, in-process and outgoing) that drives user need CtQ requirements through product specifications and into manufacturing processes.

• Lead the evaluation and selection of potential suppliers.

• Able to call, lead and conduct global, cross functional team members with the following participants: Post Launch engineering, internal/external operations/suppliers, quality and supply chain.

• Provide technical guidance to the PRC supplier quality and in house factory quality teams

• Use voice of customer and mass production data to drive product and process improvements of existing products

• Lead and contribute to Root Cause Analysis activities to ensure performance and conformance of existing products

Education and Experience Requirements:

• Bachelor's Degree in Manufacturing, Industrial, Mechanical Engineering or equivalent

• 2+ years of related work experience in Advanced Quality, Quality Engineering and/or Manufacturing Engineering preferred

• Critical thinker, able to evaluate and identify risks in the early product development cycle and able drive projects to mitigate those risks.

• Relevant experience with statistical tools such as MiniTab and ReliaSoft

• Ability to travel 25% (includes both domestic and international)

Milwaukee Tool is an equal opportunity employer.