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This role offers hands on ownership, exposure to cross functional teams, and the opportunity to influence how quality is built into every stage of production-while growing your skills at a site with strong long term investment and opportunity.\nOur Team\nYou’ll be joining a team that is collaborative, hands on, and closely connected to operations. Engineers are empowered to challenge the status quo, lead improvements, and see their ideas implemented on the floor.\nAs part of a growing site with significant long term investment, you’ll work alongside driven teammates in an environment that supports learning, expanded responsibility, and long term career growth.\nWhat You Will Do\nSupport Quality Management Systems in the plant to profitably fulfill customer expectations\nDrive achievement of quality assurance objectives in a continuous improvement environment\nStrive for operational excellence in product, process quality, and reliability\nImplement quality tools across the organization (e.g., PFMEA, Control Plans, Gauge R&R, advanced problem solving, Six Sigma)\nSupport and facilitate structured containment measures\nApply problem solving methods such as 8D, DMAIC, and 5 Why to implement corrective actions\nSupport proper implementation of ISO 9001 standard requirements\nWho You Are (Basic Qualifications)\nExperience working in quality, manufacturing, or process improvement environments\nExperience using quality tools such as PFMEA and Six Sigma\nExperience applying problem solving methodologies (e.g., 8D, DMAIC, 5 Why)\nExperience creating and interpreting data and reports\nWhat Will Put You Ahead\nExperience using statistical analysis\nExperience with ISO 9001 requirements and implementation\nBachelor’s degree in Engineering or a related technical field\nAt Koch companies, we are entrepreneurs. This means we openly challenge the status quo, find new ways to create value and get rewarded for our individual contributions. Any compensation range provided for a role is an estimate determined by available market data. The actual amount may be higher or lower than the range provided considering each candidate's knowledge, skills, abilities, and geographic location. If you have questions, please speak to your recruiter about the flexibility and detail of our compensation philosophy.\nHiring Philosophy\nAll Koch companies value diversity of thought, perspectives, aptitudes, experiences, and backgrounds. We are Military Ready and Second Chance employers. Learn more about our hiring philosophy here.\nWho We Are\nAs a Koch company, Guardian Glass is one of the world’s largest manufacturers of float, value-added and fabricated glass products and solutions. We produce high-performance glass for architectural, residential, interior, transportation and technical glass applications. 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