Rain Bird®

Job Posting

Application Deadline: -

DATE: June 17, 2011

POSITION: Sr. Quality Engineer

COMPANY: Rain Bird Corporation – Commercial Manufacturing

REPORTS TO: Plant Quality Manager

WORK LOCATION: Nogales, Mexico

POSITION RESPONSIBILITIES:

The Sr. Quality Engineer will lead the efforts for production and customer quality. Monitors adherence to plant quality system and will be a driving force in reducing defects and customer returns. Additionally, the successful candidate will be a strategic thinker able to quickly identify improvement opportunities and work cross-functionally to implement them. Responsibilities include but are not limited to:

· Lead continuous process improvement teams chartered to achieve and exceed plant quality objectives.

· Implement Statistical Process Control across assembly cells and drive required corrective action when required.

· Provide quality engineering expertise as a member of the New Product Development team to assure compliance to specifications.

· Analyze quality assurance data and initiate root cause and corrective action efforts to eliminate assignable causes that affect product quality.

· Work closely with product engineering and operations personnel to reduce manufacturing process variation and reduce plant’s cost of quality.

· Manage the RGA analysis process and utilize data to drive continuous improvement.

· Drive conformance of processes and procedures through the internal audit process and the corrective action process.

· Maintain process control documentation like control plans and PFMEA

· Lead inspection reduction efforts.

· Participate in corporate standardization efforts and audits.

· Train supervisors, leads, technicians, and operators in adherence to the plant quality system.

· Certify and validate manufacturing processes using statistical tools.

· This position supervises a group of 5 quality technicians/inspectors.

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:

· BS degree in industrial, mechanical or electrical engineering

· Minimum of 6-year experience in a quality or product engineering role in a manufacturing environment.

· Knowledge of quality tools: SPC charts, Pareto analysis, Gage R&R, FMEA, Six Sigma, Process Validation, DOE, etc.

· Excellent problem solving, communication, and team building skills.

· Track record of recognizing opportunities for improvement and implementing changes.

DESIRED QUALIFICATIONS:

· Advanced technical degree or MBA

· ASQ CQE and/or CQA

· Bilingual English/Spanish

· Proficiency with SPC software, preferably Proficient from Infinity QS

· Proficiency using Minitab

OTHER INFORMATION:

Please submit resumes to Eric Smith via e-mail: esmith@rainbird.com.