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Materion's Quality Engineer will be actively involved with customers and the QMS, with the aim of meeting or exceeding quality objectives and improving customer satisfaction.

You will have the opportunity to:

• Lead projects with continuous improvement and/or corrective action teams.

• Lead structured problem-solving activities (e.g. 8D, 5 Why, Ishikawa) to resolve customer complaints, audit findings, or customer returns in a timely manner that prevents reoccurrence. 

• Participate in frequent customer interactions for the purposes of regular business update meetings, reporting, issue resolution, and cooperative continuous improvement opportunities that improve our products and increase customer satisfaction.

• Develop, report, and take action to improve metrics related to quality (i.e. cost of poor quality, customer complaints, product non-conformances, etc.).

• Own the process for recurring QMS systems such as the PCCB (Process Change Control Board), customer complaint process, CAR management, or others.

• Drives quality improvements by working with Operations and Process Engineering to implement effective quality planning tools, measurement systems, sampling plans, statistical techniques, or other process controls.

The selection of the person to be hired for this position is contingent on the candidate having export compliance eligibility for access to U.S. controlled technology which comes under the licensing jurisdiction of the U.S. Department of State, International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) and the U.S. Department of Commerce, Export Administration Regulations (EAR). 

The candidate selected will have to qualify as either a U.S. citizen, a U.S. National, a lawful permanent resident of the U.S., a Person Admitted into the U.S. as an Asylee or Refugee., a National of a country that is not prohibited from having access to U.S. controlled technology (via a letter of assurance), or a Person to be approved for an export license by the governing agency whose technology comes under its jurisdiction.

REQUIREMENTS:

• Bachelor’s degree (metallurgy, material science, chemistry or chemical engineering degree preferred)

• 4+ years of experience in a Quality-related role required. 

• Quality theory knowledge equivalent to Six Sigma black belt certification (or similar practical experience). 

• Preferred experience includes auditing, quality theory, project management, and materials science.