QA Engineer

Employer
  • Flowserve Corporation

Job Description

Company Overview:

If a culture of excellence, innovation and ownership is what you’re searching for, consider putting your experience in motion at Flowserve. As an individual contributor, or as a leader of people, your enterprise mindset will ensure Flowserve’s position as the global standard in comprehensive flow control solutions. Here, your opportunity for professional development and industry leading rewards will be supported by our foundational commitments to the values of people first, integrity and safety. Thinking beyond opportunity and reward, at Flowserve, we are inspired by working together to create extraordinary flow control solutions to make the world better for everyone!

Role Summary:

The Quality Engineer for Flowserve is key to ensuring that we continue to deliver high-quality and reliable products that meet all company, industry, and customer requirements. The person in this role will partner with associates in Supply Chain, Engineering, and Manufacturing in managing orders and the flow of products from suppliers, though our factory, and delivery to the Customer. This person will also facilitate problem-solving sessions across all functional areas in the company, in addition to supporting our internal non-conformance disposition processes. The Quality Engineer needs to bring strong experience and industry-specific knowledge to support a critical segment of Flowserve’s business.

Responsibilities & Requirements:

Responsibilities

  • Review’s customer PO/specifications against internal write-ups for completeness & clarity of the QA requirements.
  • Manage projects for quality requirements (valves/instrumentation)
  • Participate in pre-inspection meetings with customers establishing witness and hold points. Jointly resolves or clarifies specification differences, etc.
  • Issuing Quality Plans for product components in the form of QA Codes and Inspection & Test Plans (ITP) to upstream and downstream departments.
  • Create the product assembly traveler/routing, which details specific customer testing & witnessing, as applicable, i.e., cryogenic testing, closure testing, stroke speed, hysteresis and dead band.
  • Assemble all necessary final QA documentation as a document package for the customer at time of shipment.
  • Be Involved in the Continual Improvement Process (CIP) for QA.
  • Provide training on QA processes.
  • Audit of Flowserve’s quality management program - ISO, PED, ATEX, IECEx, etc.
  • Audit suppliers of products and services for compliance to codes / national / international standards / regulatory requirements.
  • Create Flowserve procedures / documents / travelers for: engineering, inspection (receiving & final), inventory control, manufacturing, welding, assembly, shipping, purchasing, etc.
  • Review, approve and release incoming product and documentation for compliance to PO / regulatory requirements.
  • Create methods for the collection and analysis of statistical data for ongoing quality improvement.

Requirements

  • Ability to read, analyze, and interpret common scientific and technical journals, financial reports, and legal documents. Ability to respond to common inquiries or complaints from customers, regulatory agencies, or members of the business community. Ability to effectively present information to top management and internal groups.
  • Bachelor’s degree in an engineering related field or equivalent experience.
  • Ability to define problems, collect data, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions. Ability to interpret an extensive variety of technical instructions in mathematical or diagram form and deal with several abstract and concrete variables.
  • Have a knowledge of national/international code requirements, i.e., ASME, API, IEC.
  • Have a knowledge of quality management systems (ISO 9001, PED, ATEX/ IECEx Regulatory Requirements)
  • ISO 9001 Auditing Experience.
  • Supplier quality management experience.
  • Experience with NACE: MRO 175 & MRO 103.
  • Knowledge of supplier’s capability & capacity, i.e., heat-treat, calibration, NDE, plating, welding. machining and other processes.
  • Be familiar with and use of alloy verification equipment.
  • Patience in dealing with other people.
  • Technical and business writing skills

Preferred Experience / Skills:

Understanding of manufacturing.

Ability to make difficult decisions.

Familiar with welding procedures for the fabrication or repair of product in one or more welding processes, i.e., SMAW, GTAW, SAW, FCAW.

Primary Posting Location: Springville, Utah US

Job Posting Category: Engineering/R&D

Job Advertising Title: QA Engineer

Employment Type: Full time

Country: United States

Auto req ID: 53850BR

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