Quality Engineer

  • Full-time
  • Department: Quality Assurance

Company Description

Fortune Brands Innovations, Inc. is an industry-leading innovation company focused on creating smarter, safer and more beautiful homes and improving lives. Our driving purpose is that we elevate every life by transforming spaces into havens. We believe our work and our brands can have incredibly positive impacts for not just our business and shareholders, but for people and the planet, too.

When you join Fortune Brands, you become part of a high-performing team who are empowered to think big, learn fast and make bold decisions. We support an inclusive and diverse culture where everyone is encouraged and empowered to be their authentic selves, and where our differences and unique perspectives are a key strength.

Explore life at Fortune Brands here.

Job Description

Provide support to all departments and areas regarding quality issues. Perform quality assurance and quality control duties to assure that all production parts meet established quality criteria.

Primary Duties and Responsibilities:

  • Participate in establishing, maintaining and refining quality systems and programs.
  • Design, implement and refine quality control process sampling systems, procedures and statistical techniques.
  • Formulate or assist in formulating quality policies and procedures.
  • Analyze process capability and recommend revision to standards, specifications and or process when warranted.
  • Create and manage Control Plans and PPAP activities
  • Experience in Corrective Action, 8D and 5Y.
  • Design or specify inspection mechanisms and equipment.
  • Evaluate, plan and initiate actions to effect improvements on factors affecting quality costs.
  • Evaluate and report on customer complaints and returned product.
  • Interface with suppliers, customers and internal departments on resolution of quality issues.
  • Ability to act as a back up to the Sr. Quality Engineer

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in Engineering or related field.
  • 3 years Quality Assurance experience required.
  • 3-5 years in a decision making technical, professional or management position
  • Knowledge of and experience with comprehensive Quality Assurance requirements such as ISO 9001, QS9000 or MIL-Q-9858.
  • Strong computer skills (Microsoft Office and Minitab strongly preferred) 
  • Knowledge of and experience with Six-Sigma tools desired.
  • ASQ Certification preferred.
  • Excellent interpersonal, communication and analytical skills.
  • Able to work as a team member with a wide variety of people.

Additional Information

At Fortune Brands, we support the overall health and wellness of our associates by offering comprehensive, competitive benefits that prioritize all aspects of wellbeing and provide flexibility for our teammates’ unique needs. This includes robust health plans, a market-leading 401(k) program with a company contribution, product discounts, flexible time off benefits (including half-day summer Fridays per policy), inclusive fertility/adoption benefits, and more. We offer numerous Employee Resource Groups to support inclusivity and our associates’ feeling of belonging at work.

Fortune Brands is a brand, innovation and channel leader focused on exciting, supercharged categories in the home products, security and commercial building markets. Our portfolio of brands includes Moen, House of Rohl, Aqualisa, SpringWell, Therma-Tru, Larson, Fiberon, Master Lock, SentrySafe and Yale residential.

Fortune Brands is headquartered in Deerfield, Illinois and trades on the NYSE as FBIN.

Equal Employment Opportunity

FBIN is an equal employment opportunity employer and does not discriminate against any applicant based on race, color, religion, sex, gender identity or expression, national origin, ancestry, age, disability, marital status, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, genetic history or information, or any other legally protected characteristic.

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