Quality Engineer

Your Responsibilities

As a Quality Engineer for John Deere Valley City located in Valley City, ND, you will:

• Contribute to the analysis of information and the specification of the methods and process steps, as well as the plant, machinery, and equipment, required to design and continuously improve manufacturing or materials processes and process systems to deliver the end product within specified cost and quality parameters
• Contribute to the design of engineering solutions; design the feasibility testing approach and supervise its implementation to support the development and validation of engineering solutions
• Carry out a range of activities under the guidance of more senior colleagues to support the drafting of engineering standards and specifications and the evaluation of the effectiveness of
  those standards
• Carry out inspections under the supervision of senior colleagues to evaluate the quality of engineering works and/or the integrity of existing installations or structures, and make recommendations to senior colleagues on the remedial works needed to ensure conformance with specifications and regulatory requirements
• Deliver required outcomes by coordinating activities of subcontractors and suppliers and acting as a primary point of contact for them while working within an established contract management plan
• Identify shortcomings in existing processes, systems, and procedures, and use established change management programs to address them
• Help others get the most out of knowledge management systems by offering support and advice
• Carry out a range of product development and engineering activities. Use established systems to analyze customer needs and define and deliver products
• Work within an established project management plan to achieve specific goals

VISA Sponsorship is NOT available for this position.

What Skills You Need

• 3+ year of experience in one or more related engineering areas: industrial, production, methods, reliability, design, manufacturing, warehousing/distribution, and/or quality
• Knowledge of drawing and schematic interpretation, product models, geometric dimensioning and tolerancing
• Knowledge of standard quality tools such as FMEA (Failure Modes Effect Analysis), SPC (Statistical Process Control), Root Cause Analysis, and Statistics
• Knowledge of manufacturing and/or distribution processes, quality, tooling, and tool design

What Makes You Stand Out

• Prior Quality Engineering experience
• Knowledge of supply management systems, processes, and practices
• Knowledge of advanced quality tools such as design of experiments and regression analysis
• 3+ years of experience with engineering tools, systems, and databases
• 3+ years of experience in use of statistical tools and techniques for quality management
• Control plan automation experience 

Education

Ideally you will have a degree or equivalent related work experience in the following:

• Bachelor's Degree in Engineering or related field of study