Quality Engineer
RBC Bearings

Principle Responsibilities

• Project Management: Ensure timely completion of all projects. Plan and organize projects through the use of work breakdown structure, Gantt Charts and Projects Plans. Track project status through regular meetings, documenting progress with Gantt chart and report to supervisor. Effectively oversee obstacles in order to maintain project progress.

• Program Launches: Advanced Quality Planning, Work with Application Engineers, Product and Manufacturing Engineering in the development and launch of new programs. Utilize Advanced Quality Planning Tools, such as PFMEA's, Control Plans, Measurement System Analysis and Process Capability Studies.

• RBC-API Supplier Development: Work with Purchasing on improving the capability and stability of RBC-API's Supply base. Utilize the PFMEA process to improve the effectiveness of inspection departments. Suggest and implement improvements to our Supplier surveillance/auditing process. Improvements should include flow down of our quality management system requirements and our customer's requirements.

• First Article & Source Inspection: Refine process to minimize errors and to prevent need of corrective actions.

• Internal & External Quality Management System and Process Audits: Perform and document Supplier Surveillance by performing site audits of Key suppliers and supplier that do not meet performance targets. Data collection for a schedule, audit plans and metrics to analyze their Quality performance.

• Failure analysis of customer rejections

• Trouble shooting of manufacturing and or assembled components non-conformances.