Quality Assurance Engineer

Job description

The Quality Engineer is responsible for preventing quality anomalies, reducing green waste and cured scrap, and ensuring process capability and compliance across all manufacturing stages, including Mixing, Stock Preparation, Tire Building, Curing, and Final Inspection. This role serves as the customer advocate on the shop floor, ensuring Toyo product, process, and system requirements meet internal standards and external customer expectations. ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES: Manufacturing Process & Product Quality: - Support quality assurance activities across Mixing, Stock Prep, Tire Building, Curing, and Final Inspection processes. - Monitor and improve process capability (Cp/Cpk) for critical and significant characteristics (CC/SC). - Utilize SPC tools to detect variation and initiate corrective actions. - Support new tire launches, engineering trials, and specification changes. Problem Solving & Corrective Action: - Lead structured problem-solving using methodologies such as: 8D, 5-Why, DMAIC, etc. - Investigate scrap, rework, anomalies, and process escapes/leakages. - Manage corrective actions through Toyo CA tracking systems - Initiate and lead containment actions, perf...