Quality Systems Engineer

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Leggett & Platt’s overall mission is a commitment to enhance lives – by delivering quality products, offering empowering and rewarding careers, and doing our part in bringing about a better future.

Leggett & Platt’s inventive heritage and leadership span more than 130 years. Leggett & Platt has divisions that design, manufacture, and sell a variety of products for all areas of life. Our reliable product development and launch capability, coupled with our global footprint, make us a trusted partner for customers in the automotive, furniture, hydraulic cylinders, flooring, textile and geo components industries.

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Precision Hydraulic Cylinders

Precision Hydraulic Cylinders is committed to providing comprehensive design, service, and support to OEM’s during all phases of development, testing, and production to ensure smooth integration and superior product performance.

As leading providers of a wide variety of hydraulic cylinders, we operate within a global marketplace. Offering all our OEM clients a customized solution, we pride ourselves on being able to tailor what we do to meet the changing needs of our clients. Whether you need a change in volume or a tighter deadline, we will always do our utmost to get the job done to the highest possible standard.

Learn more about Precision Hydraulic Cylinders: https://phc-global.com/

In this role, the Quality Systems Engineer will provide leadership and strategic guidance for overall management and continual improvement of the company's Business Management System, ensuring compliance with corporate and local requirements, customer requirements, current ISO 9001/14001 requirements, and other applicable quality standards. This position is responsible for supplier quality and calibration and has supervisory responsibilities for both functions. The Quality Systems Engineer reports to the Quality Manager.

Develop and deploy compliance initiatives ensuring success of business goals and objectives. Participate in and coordinate Kaizens. Communicate with the Leadership Team improvement ideas, status of projects, and otherinformation needed for success. Support plant compliance processes while maintaining a strong focus on continual improvement. The incumbent will be a key driver of the corrective action and continual improvement processes to maintain and improve various compliance requirements.

Duties and Responsibilities:

· Work in a safe manner and adhere to safety rules and requirements.

· Develop, implement, and maintain ISO 9001 and ISO 14001 policies, programs, and procedures to ensure awareness and compliance with the current standards.

· Schedule and lead external audits from various customers and certifying bodies and ensure closure of findings.

· Create an internal audit schedule and ensure audit schedule is completed in a timely manner. Recruit and train internal auditors.

· Develop, implement, and maintain cleanliness policies, programs, and procedures to ensure compliance with internal and customer cleanliness requirements.

· Supervise the Receiving Inspector and Calibration Technician.

· Develop, implement, and maintain 5S policies, programs, and procedures to ensure compliance with internal and customer 5S requirements.

· The Quality Systems Engineer is part of the Quality management team and will participate in strategic planning for the Quality department.

· The Quality Systems Engineer is a technical resource for others based on experience and knowledge.

· Partner with management to implement continual improvement projects; assist with Kaizen events.

· Develop and improve process control plans, work instructions, and production standards.

· Support the analysis and resolution of customer complaints. Ensures actions meet customers’ expectations, are effectively implemented in the operational processes, and ultimately drive to prevention.

· Collaborate with production to ensure quality control requirements are effectively and consistently executed.

· Work with Customers to resolve quality issues.

· Perform data analysis and monitor various quality metrics.

· Perform other duties as directed by the Quality Manager.

Education and Skills

· Bachelor's degree in a related engineering, manufacturing, or business, preferred; or 4-5 years of Quality engineering or management experience in a manufacturing environment

· Be able to follow Company and general industry safety requirements

· Must be able to effectively communicate and partner with management at all levels

· Organized and able to effectively manage multiple tasks with appropriate prioritization

· Proficient Microsoft Suite user

· Strong leadership skills, team building, and organizational development skills · Strong analytical competence · Be able to understand and interpret Company, Customer, and ISO processes and standards · Understand, implement, and maintain 5S fundamentals · Be able to read and interpret blueprints and specifications · Dependable · Must be a self-starter · Be able to make required measurements using various measuring and test equipment · Some travel required Physical Demands The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to talk or hear. The employee frequently is required to stand; walk; use hands to finger, handle or feel; and reach with hands and arms; lift >40lbs. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and ability to adjust focus. Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action/Veteran/Disability Employer

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Our Values

Our values speak to our shared beliefs, and describe how we approach working together.

• Put People First reflects our commitment to safety and care of each other, learning and development, and creating an environment of mutual respect, empathy and belonging.
• Do the Right Thing focuses us on acting with honesty and integrity, delivering the results the right way, taking pride in our work, and speaking the truth – good or bad.
• Do Great Work…Together occurs when we engage without hierarchy, collaborate as a team, embrace challenges, and work for the good of all of us.
• Take Ownership and Raise the Bar demonstrates our responsibility to add value and make a difference, challenge the status quo and biases to make things better, foster innovative and creative solutions to drive impact, and explore new perspectives and embrace change.

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