Sustaining Quality Engineer

Teamvantage, a Velosity Company is searching for a Sustaining Quality Engineer to support our Forest Lake Location. This position is responsible for supporting operations by managing and prioritizing customer related ECO's, corrective actions, MRBs, RMAs, Certificates of Conformance, problem solving and other related deliverables and methods to drive continual improvement of production processes.

The typical pay range for this role: $73,000 - $109,510

This pay range represents the base hourly rate or base annual full-time salary for all positions in the job grade within which this position falls. The compensation that will be offered to the successful candidate will depend on a variety of factors including experience, education, geography, internal equity and other relevant factors.

This is an on-site position seated in Forest Lake, MN.

Who is Teamvantage?

Teamvantage is not your typical manufacturing company.

Founded in 1972, we are a state-of-the-art, custom contract manufacturer and injection molder providing creative solutions to our customers' unique manufacturing challenges.

At Teamvantage, our culture & values are our competitive advantage. Engrained in everything we do are our values of Collaboration, Results-Driven, Continuous Improvement, Integrity, and Customer Satisfaction. Sound like you? Apply to join our team today.

What You'll Love about Teamvantage:

• Excellent benefits package including medical, dental, life insurance, short term and long term disability, flex spending, 401k match, and MORE!
• Quarterly bonus opportunity
• Generous PTO offerings & 9 paid holidays annually
• Great opportunities for growth & advancement
• Clean, friendly, and air-conditioned work environment
• A collaborative employee centric environment that hires and develops talent based on our values
• Casual Dress Code

Requirements

• Preferred Bachelor's degree in Quality or equivalent experience.
• Valid identification and the ability to work legally in the United States.
• Preferred three years of experience in quality Engineering, with a minimum of one year of experience in plastic injection molding.
• In depth knowledge and understanding of contract manufacturing processes; knowledge of print reading, including GD&T; knowledge of inspection methods, measuring equipment, i.e. CMM's, Vision systems etc. and validation protocols.

Essential Functions

• Work cooperatively with all employees.
• Develop, maintain, organize and update inspection plans and methods to achieve new or changing quality requirements and standards, document known/repeat quality issues and to ensure best practices are implemented.
• Review and approve production released Certificates of Conformance.
• Drive continual improvement in regard to procedures, work flow, process optimization, compliance to standards, and to ensure product quality.
• Investigate, determine root cause of quality issues and assist production and other personnel with the MRB, RMA and Corrective Action processes.
• Manage quality related items for production released product for existing customers, initiate and manage Engineering changes and implement effective solutions to permanently address production related issues.
• Act as a liaison between Engineering, Operations and customers.
• Provide support to the Sustaining Quality Engineer - Operations.
• Support the operations team by providing quality insight and direction on quality related questions and issues.
• Other tasks as assigned by supervisor.

We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, veteran, marital, or disability status.

We maintain a drug-free workplace and perform pre-employment substance abuse testing.

Velostiy is an E-Verify employer.

Velosity maintains ITAR-compliant operations in our facilities. Due to ITAR regulations, this role is only open to U.S. Citizens, lawful permanent residents (green card holders) or foreign nationals granted refugee or asylee status. Individuals with temporary visas (e.g. E, F-1, H-1, H-2, L, B, J, TN or OPT) are not eligible for hire in this role.