Quality Engineer

NABRICO Marine Products, Inc. is a leading manufacturer of barges used to transport cargo on U.S. inland waterways. NABRICO Marine Products, Inc. manufactures dry cargo barges, including flat-deck and hopper barges, that are used to transport a variety of products including grain, coal, and aggregates. NABRICO Marine Products, Inc. also manufactures tank barges that carry petroleum, fertilizer, ethanol, chemicals, and other liquid cargoes. NABRICO Marine Products, Inc. is the largest U.S. manufacturer of fiberglass hopper barge covers used primarily on grain barges. Additionally, NABRICO Marine Products, Inc. provides a full product line of deck hardware to the marine industry, including hatches, castings, and winches for towboats and dock facilities.

NABRICO Marine Products, Inc., is searching for a Quality Engineer that will be based in Ashland City, TN. Reporting to the Director of Quality, this position will play a critical role leading quality and operational excellence activities. The Quality Engineer will be responsible for driving continuous process and product improvements ensuring brand integrity, leading to customer satisfaction, and overall mission success while supporting quality, delivery and cost targets. This is a hands-on, highly involved individual contributor role where effective collaboration with design engineering, purchasing, operations, safety and program management will be critical.

What You’ll Do:

• Provide leadership to the organization to help drive a proactive approach leading to improvements in product quality, product design, manufacturing processes, measurement techniques, supplier performance, and customer satisfaction
• Partner with Manufacturing Operations to solve quality and process problems while maintaining manufacturing efficiencies and meeting competitive business deadlines
• Strengthen quality management systems and ensure corporate and individual plant processes are implemented and adequately followed
• Develop and deploy operator work instructions, quality policies and procedures, inspection plans (receiving, First Article, in-process etc.), and associated process controls
• Manage gauge design and development, gauge calibration / validation, measurement systems analysis (GR&R)
• Establish and implement process evaluation tools (process capability) and process monitoring tools (SPC charts) for evaluating system effectiveness and to enable managers to make sound product quality decisions
• Drive continuous improvements in all areas, focusing on key performance indicators
• Assist all plants with the development and deployment of quality policies / procedures, internal quality auditing, and ensuring adherence to company's Quality and Regulatory strategies in accordance with the established strategic plan
• Must be proficient at various methods of problem-solving and process improvement (8D, 5-Why, Kaizen, Process Flow, Control Plan, DFMEA, PFMEA, etc.) to champion problem-solving and root cause analysis activities internally as well as with suppliers and customers to eliminate recurrence of nonconformances
• Supplier quality auditing and / or qualification of new supplier components and raw materials

What You'll Need:

• ASQ CQE certification preferred
• Degree in Quality Engineering or equivalent field
• Lean and Six Sigma experience
• Energetic and strong work ethic
• Experience in leading teams and project management
• Ability to develop strong relationships with customers, suppliers and plant level teams
• Ability to facilitate collaboration and communication with all operational teams as well as support functions worldwide
• Strong presentation skills - both presentation development (PowerPoint) and presentation delivery
• Ability to work with limited supervision
• Strong computer skills with working knowledge of Excel and Microsoft Outlook
• Excellent observational, analytical and problem-solving skills
• Ability to bring creative solutions
• Ability to stay disciplined and focused on high priority tasks
• Ability to be productive and effective working independently or as part of a team
• Must possess a passionate, energetic, can-do attitude