🚀 Manufacturing Quality Engineer

Tempur Sealy is looking for an experienced and team minded individual to join our Richmond team as a Manufacturing Quality Engineer. Tempur Sealy offers a competitive salary as well as medical/dental/vision benefits, EAP, liberal employee discounts, matching 401K and much more.

Job Summary

Lead the Company’s Quality Program at the plant level (location) to ensure the product delivered to customers meets Tempur Sealy internal quality standards with regard to standard assembly processes, Mandatory/General assembly specifications, final inspections standard, work-in process standards and raw material standards. Drive accountability through data; establish structure and consistency throughout the organization by developing, implementing, and maintaining the quality and continuous improvement operating system. Transform from traditional quality practices to a proactive integrated quality approach.

What you will do:

• Ensure standard operating procedures are sustained in the assembly processes.
• Ensure assembly operations conform to general and mandatory specifications.
• Manage the implementation of new processes and procedures with regard to the introduction of new products or equipment.
• Coordinate with other plants to develop and implement standard operating procedures for all assembly and quality processes.
• Develop and implement improved standard procedures through the lean process and tools; document so improved process can become organization standard.
• Ensure equipment is capable of meeting required product quality standards and can repeatedly reproduce these results.
• Ensure that the proper training of all pertinent personnel on standard operating procedures is performed.
• Train supervision on newly introduced assembly procedures in the general specifications.
• Train associates in standard inspection procedures and process audit techniques.
• Coordinate training activities with other Manufacturing Quality Engineers.
• Validate accurate work-in-process and finished goods defect tracking.
• Validate accurate returned goods and rejected piece defect tracking.
• Perform periodic audit of finished products.
• Perform periodic audit of work-in-process records.
• Audit of adherence to bills of material.
• Recommendation of corrective actions to plant management.
• Statistical analysis of collected data, tracking defect back to process, cell, material or individual.
• Facilitate and promote use of appropriate problem solving techniques for effective root cause analysis and successful corrective action.
• Recommend process improvements to plant management.
• Participate in quality reporting and management review process.
• Manage quality metrics and present findings and recommendations to the management review team.
• Provide engineering support to operations ensuring consistent application of quality techniques.
• Effective use of change management tools and techniques to assure buy-in from all stakeholders to the processes and systems in the plant.
• Participate in customer meetings and visits; answer customer complaints using an 8D or any other approved formats.
• Support Regional Operational Excellence Engineers/Kaizen events; follow up on Kaizen newspaper.
• Enable the use of SQSCM boards.

Requirements

What you will need:

• BS in Engineering or science field preferred.
• 2+ years’ experience in Process/Manufacturing Engineering or Quality Assurance in plant environment.
• Process improvement knowledge in a manufacturing environment such as Lean Manufacturing, Six Sigma, etc., to drive operational excellence system is a plus.
• Six Sigma Green Belt training or certification required.
• Engineering experience in process design/improvement, new product implementation.

Salary Range: $64,480-$88,000

Tempur Sealy is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action employer. We provide equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibit discrimination and harassment of any type based upon race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.

About the company

Tempur Sealy International, Inc. is the world's largest bedding provider.