Quality Engineer

Innovance, Inc.

Innovance is the holding company for a family of five, 100% employee-owned, Midwest-based manufacturing companies (Lou-Rich, ALMCO, Panels Plus, Mass Finishing, Jorgensen). Our mission is to lead, nurture, and grow a team of industrial manufacturing companies committed to making our OEM customers’ products better.

About Lou-Rich

Lou-Rich is a fully integrated contract manufacturer specializing in complex projects. We provide precision machining, metal fabrication, assembly, and sourcing solutions to a variety of industries, including some of North America’s largest OEMs. Companies of all sizes, from Fortune 500 companies to small, fast-growing operations trust Lou-Rich with their most vital and complex manufacturing projects.

Position Description:

Develop systems and documentation for specific programs that ensure that products and services provided meet all contractual and program quality requirements.

Essential Functions:

· Participates in the review of design, manufacturing, and test documentation to ensure that applicable program or contract quality requirements are met.

· Reviews the program quality performance to provide analysis and obtains corrective actions where necessary.

· Participates in the generation of program-specific quality and test philosophies to ensure compliance with company and customer requirements.

· Participates in the review of customer or contractual documentation (including proposals) to identify and ensure fulfillment of requirements.

· Provides interface and support to customer quality concerns to facilitate responsiveness to customers.

· Establishes and maintains the program quality system plan and documentation to ensure compliance with program requirements.

· Provides technical and advisory support to the prototype area to ensure the development of products in a manner that produces a quality system and documentation which will provide adherence to customer requirements.

· Dispositions discrepant material in a manner that ensures product quality and adherence to program requirements.

· Performs program-specific tasks as required (e.g., customer-required First Article Inspection, PPAP, APQP, PFMEA, SPC, Qualification Test Failure Analysis, etc.) to ensure compliance to individual program requirements.

· Devises, establishes, and maintains a reporting system for program quality to provide visibility internally and for the customer.

Other Duties

Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities, and activities may change at any time with or without notice.