KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES: + Support the Spectrum Plastics Group, MN (SPG, MN) safety program and its goal of zero accidents. + Ensure operational processes and quality requirements meet customer expectations and company goals. + Actively promote and drive a culture of safety. KEY RESPONSIBILITIES: + Identify customer quality requirements and develop inspection methods and plans to support their achievement. + Manage internal and external quality issues for their assigned market team in order to achieve team goals. + Provide support to engineering, inspection, manufacturing, and sales functions to achieve SPG and team goals. + Understand applicable quality principles including, but not limited to, statistics, sampling management, blueprint reading, metrology, quality planning techniques, and closed loop corrective action. + Understand applicable Spectrum Plastic Group Standard Operating Procedures. + Assist in project acquisition by identifying customer quality requirements, and their associated costs and impacts to the quotation team. + Assist in the project development phase by specifying first article submission requirements. This includes dimensional analysis, capability studies, customer forms, and required certifications. + Understand the quality requirements of SPG’s customers. Clarify customer requirements when necessary. + When appropriate, analyze inspection data for evidence that manufacturing and inspection processes are functioning properly. Initiate corrective/preventive action when necessary. + Process incoming, in-process, finished, and customer returned discrepant material according to the Discrepant Material Report, and corrective action procedures. Hold daily MRB meetings for rejected product. + Support the problem resolution process by acting as resource for quality problem solving methodology. + Respond with documented closed loop corrective action to internal and external quality problems when appropriate. + Support the purchasing function by identifying purchased component/service quality requirements and supporting resolution of quality issues. + Act as backup for the other Quality Engineers. + Read, analyze, and interpret blueprints, quality manuals, general business periodicals, professional journals, technical procedures, and governmental regulations as appropriate. + Read, write, and analyze business and technical reports, business correspondence, procedures and inspection plans to effectively present business and technical information in response to inquiries from peers, subordinates, management, co-workers and customers. + Interpret technical information in mathematical or diagram form and deal with abstract and solid concepts. + Define problems, perform root cause analysis, choose and implement solutions, and test their effectiveness. + Apply and understand process and gauging qualification methods, statistical sampling theory, and statistical process control methods. + Program CMM to support the inspection function. + Lead and/or support continuous improvement efforts including 5S. Defense industry specific responsibilities + Maintain current knowledge for the customer specific requirements of SPG’s Defense customers and requirements of AS9100. Qualifications Bachelor’s Degree (B.S.) from a four-year college or university; or five years related experience and/or training; or equivalent combination of post high school education and related experience. Training and/or experience in Plastics Molding Technology. Ability to use mainframe terminal and personal computer as they relate to the required tasks.