Engineer II

Position Summary

Position Summary:

Ensures timely and efficient completion of detailed quality engineering project phases or major projects to achieve division quality objectives. Plans, schedules, and coordinates efforts of the quality engineering staff or acts as an individual researcher or functional expert on projects with significant customer and business impact. Additionally, research, analyze, design, and test component parts, processes, or systems to develop new and/or improve core products. Develops and recommends solutions to well-defined engineering requirements, or for components or segments of a complex product or system, to ensure that design objectives are met. Apply engineering principles based on assigned engineering domain (e.g. mechanical; electrical, chemical, etc).

Responsibilities

Essential Functions:

1. Develops project goals and objectives to complete complex or major quality engineering projects by reviewing quality performance trends, statistical plans, cost estimates, quality plans, and conferring with management. Ensures project meets schedule, cost results, and technical expectations through effective project leadership.

2. Determines quality engineering project responsibilities by identifying project phases and elements, assigning staffing and resources, and reviewing bids from outside contractors.

3. Determines quality engineering project specifications by studying product design, customer requirements, and performance standards; completing technical studies; preparing cost estimates. Confirms product performance by designing and conducting tests.

4. Determines project schedule by studying project plan and specifications; calculating time requirements; sequencing project elements. Maintains project schedule by monitoring project progress, coordinating activities, and resolving problems.

5. Controls project plan by reviewing design specifications, and plan or schedule changes, and recommending actions to achieve quality and customer service objectives. Controls project costs by approving expenditures and administering contractor contracts.

6. Applies and leads continuous improvement and quality focused initiatives for critical areas of production.

7. Coordinates and/or conducts on-site quality surveys as requested by customers and various accrediting organizations (e.g. ISO9000). May plan and implement quality programs designed to improve supplier performance or productivity.

8. Interprets regulations, contracts, and company policy on areas applying to quality measures and standards. Complies with federal, state, and local legal requirements by studying existing and new legislation, ensuring adherence to requirements, and advising management on needed actions.

9. Recommends actions by analyzing and interpreting data and making comparative analyses. Analyzes proposed changes in methods and materials for cost and quality impacts.

10. Maintains professional and technical knowledge by attending educational workshops, benchmarking state-of-the-art practices, reviewing publications, and/or participating in professional associations.

11. Acts as consultant to management on major matters. Establishes goals and objectives required to complete projects. Identifies mentoring needs. Trains and mentors less experienced employees. May provide leadership to others in department or to ad-hoc teams. May serve as functional expert. Shares specialized knowledge with others. Represents company on specific projects. Interfaces with all agencies and customers as necessary to complete projects. Contributes to team effort by accomplishing related results as needed.

12. Develops and reviews detailed quality and product specifications by analyzing customer, performance, reliability, safety, manufacturability, cost, material, and contractual requirements. Ensures specifications are clear, complete, and aligned with applicable internal, customer, industry, and regulatory standards.

13. Performs feasibility studies, risk assessments, capability analyses, and trade studies using appropriate analytical and statistical methods. Recommends quality, process, product, or material solutions for implementation based on technical, cost, schedule, and customer-impact considerations.

14. Plans, conducts, and evaluates product and process qualification, validation, verification, inspection, and reliability testing. Interprets test and inspection results for accuracy, precision, repeatability, reproducibility, and conformance to established acceptance criteria.

15. Identifies quality-related design errors, omissions, nonconformances, and process deficiencies. Recommends and supports implementation of corrective actions, preventive actions, engineering changes, process changes, and continuous-improvement initiatives.

16. Prepares and maintains technical documentation, including quality plans, inspection plans, control plans, test procedures, validation reports, technical reports, customer data-item documentation, and presentations for internal and customer design or quality reviews.

17. Supports project milestones by reviewing drawings, specifications, process flows, manufacturing plans, material requirements, and supplier documentation to ensure form, fit, function, quality, reliability, and compliance requirements are achieved.

18. Communicates project status, technical risks, corrective-action progress, recommendations, and quality performance results clearly and precisely to engineering, operations, supply chain, management, customers, suppliers, and other cross-functional stakeholders.

Qualifications

Qualifications

Bachelor's degree (BS) in Engineering, Quality Engineering, Manufacturing Engineering, or a related technical or science discipline; Professional Engineer (PE) certification or American Society for Quality (ASQ) certification preferred.

Ability to perform the essential functions of the job typically acquired through 2-3 years of related experience.

Comprehensive knowledge of quality engineering and assurance principles, product and process qualification, inspection techniques, statistical analysis, continuous improvement, root-cause analysis, corrective and preventive action, and risk-management methods.

Working knowledge of engineering-domain principles, product functionality, manufacturing processes, customer requirements, industry practices, applicable regulations, and company policies. General knowledge of related engineering and technical disciplines.

Proficiency with engineering design, analysis, and manufacturing tools, including CAD/CAM or other computer-aided manufacturing systems, statistical and data-analysis software, quality-management systems, and standard business software applications.

Ability to develop, interpret, and review engineering drawings, product specifications, quality plans, inspection plans, control plans, test procedures, validation documentation, technical reports, and engineering change documentation.

Ability to conduct or support feasibility studies, trade studies, process capability analyses, measurement-system analyses, product and process validation, reliability testing, and supplier quality assessments.

Ability to work independently with broad project objectives and exercise sound judgment in selecting methods, procedures, priorities, and technical solutions. Ability to lead complex projects and work effectively across cross-functional teams.

Ability to define problems, collect and analyze data, establish facts, evaluate alternatives, and draw valid conclusions to resolve complex quality, product, process, and customer issues.

Ability to communicate project status, technical risks, quality performance, corrective actions, recommendations, and other technical information clearly and professionally to team members, management, customers, suppliers, regulatory agencies, and other business partners.

Demonstrated ability to mentor and develop less-experienced employees, contribute to team goal-setting and performance feedback, and serve as a quality engineering subject-matter resource.

TYPICAL MENTAL AND PHYSICAL DEMANDS

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is required to sit. The employee frequently is required to use hands to operate a computer and talk or hear. The employee is occasionally required to stand and walk. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision. Also expected of the employee is regular attendance, the ability to work cooperatively and professionally with others and members of the public, and the ability to manage multiple tasks at once. (The essential functions have been provided as examples of types of work performed by employees assigned to this job classification. The Company reserves the right to modify the work assignments and/or to make reasonable accommodations so that qualified employees can perform the essential functions of the job. The physical and mental demands described above are representative of those required to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.)

Equal Employment Opportunity

Additional Comments:

The essential functions have been provided as example of the type of work performed by employees assigned to this job classification. The company reserves the right to modify the work assignments and/or to make reasonable accommodations so that qualified employees can perform the essential functions. The job description is not intended to be an inclusive list of duties and responsibilities. It is intended to describe the general nature of the position.

Parker is an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employer. Parker is committed to ensuring equal employment opportunities for all job applicants and employees. Employment decisions are based upon job related reasons regardless of race, ethnicity, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, age, national origin, disability, gender identity, genetic information, veteran status, or any other status protected by law. However, U.S. Citizenship, Permanent Residency or other appropriate status is required for certain positions, in accord with U.S. import & export regulations.

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