Quality Assurance Specialist

Company: SGL Carbon
Location: Strongsville
Posted on: January 12, 2022

Job Description:

Your Opportunity
The Quality Assurance Specialist ensures maintenance and development of local Quality Management according to ISO 9001 and other regulations/codes like Pressure Vessel Codes. The individual will also steer the Quality Assurance at the Strongsville site under consideration of all respective laws, regulations, standards and a state-of-the-art technology.
Key Accountabilities

• Plan quality measures to ensure products are within specification, implement measures to make sure mistakes are avoided and not merely corrected, and measure/monitor/document all quality measures
• Plan and optimize the testing worksteps in Incoming Inspection, during Production and in Final Inspection regarding product quality, testing results and testing efforts (scope and frequency of testing, number of measuring points)
• Provide guidance and support to the foremen, workers and design engineers regarding quality topics; empowering the worker self inspection in close cooperation with the Production Manager
• Manage and decide on Non-Conforming materials and products in close cooperation with the Production Manager
• Prepare, structure and analyze material and product related data from the ongoing production to reduce quality problems; observe and reduce scrap and rework / extra work with the target of continuous improvement of the product quality as well as reduction of the Costs of Poor Quality (COPQ) in close cooperation with the Production Manager
• Report COPQ, quality issues, complaints, audit measures, improvements and other quality related topics monthly to the Site Management Team and to the Global Quality Manager
• Handle customer and supplier complaints regarding quality, packaging and transport issues by coordinating all actions in the context of the complaints until closing.
• Align testing / quality activities and their execution with customers and suppliers; preparing and aligning Quality Assurance and Quality Management Agreements with customers and suppliers
• Attend external product certifications by Authorized Inspectors according to Pressure Vessel Codes (e.g. ASME Section 8)
• Maintain and develop the local Quality Management in close collaboration with the Global Quality Manager of BU PT
• Plan, prepare and execute internal and external System and Process Audits as well as Supplier Audits; plan, prepare and attend external audits from customers and Notified Bodies; follow-up audit measures and verify the effectiveness
• Plan, execute and follow-up approvals of new suppliers (Supplier Capability Analysis)
• Be the local contact person and coordinator for the control of documents; administrating local controlled documents and records
  Your Profile
  Engineering Degree with respective additional qualification in Quality Management and Quality AssuranceInternal Quality Auditor Qualification or optional qualification of External Quality AuditorMinimum 3 years experience in Quality Management and Quality AssuranceExperience with ISO 9001Quality and Testing MethodsPreferred Experience with Pressure Vessels and Pressure Vessel Code ASME Section 8

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