Quality Engineer
Great Lakes Industrial (GLI) is a family-owned industrial solutions provider for equipment manufacturers and repair operators globally. We manufacture, distribute, and provide software solutions for warehouse and production lines with a focus on sealing products including rubber, plastics, adhesives, packaging, and metals. We have been in business for almost 70 years and are in our third generation of private family leadership. We are dedicated to building a diverse community, one where employees feel a sense of belonging, and are valued for their contributions and the perspectives they bring. Our purpose is to champion the power of human connection and at the heart of connection is inclusion.
You belong here.
- Make an impact: Working at the speed of social, we create value for our customers by delivering solutions that power relationships at scale. Our pace of work enables fast learning and fosters an environment where you can stretch yourself and make an impact.
- Learn and grow: We’re committed to growing the capabilities of our people. We are building a learning community where you can work with diverse individuals, explore new ways of thinking, and expand your capabilities. Our employees are teachers and learners who work out loud and share their knowledge to enhance each other’s growth.
Quality Engineer:
The Quality Engineer is an integral position in Great Lakes Rubber as it connects our vendors to our warehouse to our sales team and our customers. The position involves designing quality standards, inspecting materials, equipment, processes, and products, developing products and materials, and developing quality controls. We expect our quality engineer to be responsive, independent, personable, communicative, and collaborative. As the engineer grows, he/she will develop long-standing relationships with our customers, vendors, management team, warehouse employees and inside staff, as well as become an expert in GLR’s internal systems and all roles in the office.
ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS
Reasonable Accommodations Statement
To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. Reasonable Accommodations may be made to enable qualified individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
Essential Functions:
- Provide material selection and recommendation
- Design product shape and sizing recommendations for optimal application performance
- Apply design standards to customer applications, including gland design and mating interactions
- Provide engineering recommendation for technical quotes
- Conduct installation design and analysis
- Write clear and professional installation guides to customer applications
- Handle all customer quality issues and provide root-cause analysis and solutions
- Develop design ideas based on customer interests, budgets, and market research
- Conduct both virtual and on-site product trainings
- Support sales staff by reviewing customer application and recommend course of action
- Conduct both in-process and development testing for improved product recommendation
- Produce and distribute engineering documents, including PPAPs, PFMEAs, PCPs, and Gage R&Rs
- Produce standard and customer compliance documents
- Help company pass all internal and external audits, including ISO 9001
POSITION QUALIFICATIONS
Competencies:
A Quality Engineer must have passion for working with our customers, our vendors, and our team to improve our internal and external quality processes, while identifying opportunities to help design and create product and testing to be able to help our internal processes and our customers. He/she must be able to multi-task and be able to change gears quickly and effectively. As GLR is looking to advance and grow, the Quality Engineer also must be able to adapt to new requirements and see change as a challenge as a growth opportunity and not a requirement.
Skills & Abilities:
- Excellent math and spatial reasoning skills, with the ability to read and understand prints, assembly drawings, tolerance, and stack-up.
- Ability use engineering tools to create drawings, develop GLR capabilities, and use data collection and measurement tools.
- Ability to write clear and effective reports utilizing formal methodology such as 8D.
- Excellent written, verbal, and interpersonal communication skills for effective interface with all internal and external contacts
- Detail oriented with demonstrated organizational and multitasking skills a must
- Team player who is assertive, goal-oriented, positive and self-motivated
- High level of Integrity
- Ability to rapidly build knowledge of our systems and our customer’s practices
- Excellent written, verbal, and interpersonal communication skills for effective interface with all internal and external contacts
Education: Bachelors Degree in Chemical or Mechanical Engineering required
Experience: 3-5+ Years of Quality or Design Engineering related work
Computer Skills: Advanced skills in Excel and Word, CAD software a plus
Certificates & Licenses: Six-Sigma