Electrical Quality Engineer

Overview

Harsco is recognized for technical leadership and worldwide experience in virtually all major aspects of railway track maintenance. We enable railroads to operate at peak efficiency over smooth, precisely aligned track that increases railway safety while reducing fuel consumption and other key operating costs. Our broad array of equipment and services support every type of railway operator, from major national and international railway systems, to short lines and high-speed urban transit networks.

Responsibilities

The QE position will be responsible for ensuring product quality and reliability by designing, implementing, and maintaining quality assurance processes. This role involves collaborating with cross-functional teams to drive root cause problem solving, continuous improvement, implementing best practices, and ensuring compliance with industry standards and regulations. The knowledge and technical competencies for this role could be in any of the following areas : Electrical, mechanical / hydraulic, and machining / fabrication.

Will include the following, but other duties may be assigned :

• Responsible for quality aspects of production projects through the development, build, and test stages. This includes analysis of data, use of problem-solving skills, and proper maintenance of project records.
• Actively participates in definition of machine test requirements, justification of acceptance limits to assure compliance with requirements.
• Manages Work In Progress (WIP) and Operation Acceptance Test (OAT) inspection data and prepares statistical and operational performance reports, as requested by management.
• Working with the Continuous Improvement team to perform process capability studies or special studies necessary to increase control and lower total quality costs.
• Manages WIP materials traceability and assists with Pre-Check and Factory Acceptance Test (FAT) Vehicle Reporting for our customers.
• Coordinates with Engineering to ensure that all 'redline' drawings are captured and processed in accordance with the engineering change procedure.
• Responsible for updating work instructions and coordinating the maintenance of work instructions for all business departments and relationship to ISO 9001 Quality Management System procedures, as needed.
• Reviews and actively comments on drawings, calculations, specifications, and other design inputs / outputs as required.
• Provides direction and monitor performance in the development & application of inspection plans : First Article Inspection, In-Process and Final Product Inspection, Sampling Plans, inspection and acceptance criteria and Design Validation Testing.
• Performs internal audits to assess compliance to Standards and to the internal Quality System, including investigation, presentation of observations and findings, and reporting.
• Applies sound systematic problem-solving methodologies in identifying, prioritizing, communicating, and resolving quality constraints / issues / part problems and openly sharing findings during Gemba Team walks and during project reviews.
• Provides "lessons learned" report outs (for example A3 / 8D) and own the representation of such to manage for cooperative enlistment of support.
• Provides trending analysis on quality corrective actions / countermeasures and performance metrics, as well as key supplier failure data.
• Ownership of supplier part inspection and failure analysis – to drive quality requirements back to the source. (whether design or manufacturing caused)

Qualifications

Knowledge and Skills

Additional Information

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