Global Quality Engineer

Job description

3090379
Additional Cities

Little Rock, Grand Forks, Other
Career Level

Experienced
Relocation Assistance

No
Business

GE Renewable Energy
Business Segment

Renewable Energy LM Wind Power
Function

Quality
Country/Territory

Brazil, United States
Additional States/Provinces

Arkansas
Postal Code

72206
Role Summary/Purpose

The Global Quality Engineer will provide functional support to quality management in the factories and to the relevant global support functions by means of promoting, coordinating, facilitating, and implementing the operational quality requirements, quality assurance and quality improvement projects / tasks.

Essential Responsibilities

As the Global Quality Engineer, you will:

·  Train Quality staff in plants and Global Support Functions on the use of inspection and measurement methods, Quality Acceptance Criteria, Quality Systems, etc.
·  Assist in governing the factories and overall regional quality performance concerning defect escapements and quality towards customer
·  Conduct Quality evaluations and work with plants on closing deviations
·  Verify effectiveness of corrective and preventive actions aiming to improve quality KPIs
·  Guide on common application of quality standards and procedures in the plants
·  Provide functional support and enable decisions to Regional and Global Quality leadership
·  Drive projects, deploy the use of Quality Control tools, such as SPC, Root Cause analysis, control plans, GR&R, etc.
·  Participate in creation of new and modified documents and procedures
·  Maintain relevant procedures in BMS
Qualifications/Requirements

·  Bachelor's Degree in Quality, Mechanical, Chemical or Manufacturing Engineering from an accredited university or college 
·  Minimum of 3 years of direct Engineering and/or Quality / technical responsibility ELIGIBILITY REQUIREMENTS:

·  Ability and willingness to travel within the region and internationally 20% of the time

PLEASE NOTE: If being hired to Canada location, you must have legal authorization to work in Canada and any offer of employment is conditioned upon the successful completion of a background investigation: The drug screen requirement in the background check process is not required if the role is based in Canada.

Desired Characteristics

·  General knowledge of wind turbine blade manufacturing
·  Experience in quality areas in wind turbine blade manufacturing
·  Experience in project management
·  Ability to analyze data using Excel, Minitab, etc.
·  Ability to drive positive change
·  Ability to clearly communicate, convince, motivate and inspire others
·  Ability to work in a multi-cultural team
·  Ability to communicate in English with at least one other language
·  Background in LEAN Six Sigma or equivalent
·  Well organized and self-driven with the ability to work / complete tasks independently and on time

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About Us

GE is the world’s Digital Industrial Company, transforming industry with software-defined machines and solutions that are connected, responsive and predictive. Through our people, leadership development, services, technology and scale, GE delivers better outcomes for global customers by speaking the language of industry.

GE Renewable Energy is a 9 billion dollar start-up that brings together one of the broadest product and service portfolios of the renewable energy industry. With 13,000 employees present in more than 40 countries, and headquartered in Paris, GE Renewable Energy is backed-up by the resources of the world’s first digital industrial company. We take the earth’s most abundant resources - the strength of the wind, the force of water, and the heat of the sun, - and put them to work with breakthrough technology that unleashes their true possibilities. Combining onshore and offshore wind, hydro and innovative technologies such as concentrated solar power, GE Renewable Energy has installed more than 370 gigawatts capacity globally to make the world work better and cleaner.

GE offers a great work environment, professional development, challenging careers, and competitive compensation. GE is anEqual Opportunity Employer . Employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, religion, national or ethnic origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, protected veteran status or other characteristics protected by law.
Additional Eligibility Qualifications

GE will only employ those who are legally authorized to work in the United States for this opening. Any offer of employment is conditioned upon the successful completion of a drug screen.
Primary Country

United States