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Job Type

Full-time

Description

UmbraGroup-Thomson Aerospace & Defense (Linear Motion, LLC) is an agile, passionate partner revolutionizing motion solution. We are an Intelligent Partner who works with passion and dedication always offering innovation, flexible and customizable solutions based on our customer's needs, creating products that can revolutionize a constantly changing market. We are an intelligent supplier of actuators, ball screws, bearings, and components in high-tech markets. Excellent service is the foundation of our business, and we work to be FIRST (Customer Focused, Innovation, Respect, Social Responsibility, Teamwork).

Summary:

This position is in our Saginaw, Michigan facility.

The Quality Engineer will be expected to play a major role in managing and implementing Linear Motion, LLC's Quality Management System, providing statistical focus on process improvements used in the manufacturing of product.

The Quality Engineer will work with a team to coordinate the facility's quality interactions and all quality related functions; develop management tools and strategies to ensure that Linear Motion, LLC meets Customer, AS9100 and Nadcap expectations for quality compliance, certifications, and inter-company communication.

Embraces and exemplifies the Umbra Group values of FIRST -- Focus on the Customer, Innovation, Respect, Social Responsibility & Teamwork

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Establishes and maintains effective working relationships with key customer representatives.

Drives timely root cause analysis and implementation of permanent preventative and corrective actions for quality issues working directly with manufacturing teams, customers and suppliers.

Develops and establishes quality management system procedures, work instructions, and inspection plans to ensure compliance with regulatory and customer specifications and contract requirements.

Supports AS9100, NADCAP and Customer Audits.

Performs internal product and process audits, and external supplier audits ensuring compliance with Quality Management System. Develops and initiates programs to improve internal and supplier performance.

Uses methodical and systemic analytical approaches to perform effective RCCA's. Assesses quality performance trends and leads improvement efforts.

Writes work instructions, process, and procedure documents to ensure compliance with product, process, customer, and system requirements.

Develops statistical process controls by applying and maintaining applicable control charts, providing training and coaching of others throughout the organization in SPC methodology.

Refines and enhances products and processes by applying continual improvement, lean manufacturing, 5s', and cost reduction activities to areas of production.

Compiles and writes training material and conducts training sessions on quality related activities.

Provides Quality support for Manufacturing and Design Engineering group with identifying opportunities for improvement, while reviewing drawings, manufacturing sketches, change requests,