Quality Specialist

**SUMMARY**:
If you have experience as a Quality Coordinator or **Quality Specialist **, Emerson-Appleton Group Canada Ltd. has a great opportunity for you Based in our **Elmira, ON **location **, **reporting to the Electrical Manufacturing Engineering Manager, you will be responsible for to maintain our Quality Management System to support the Company efforts to deliver a high quality, best-cost product that meets both Customer and Regulatory requirements. Help to support New Product Development and Production Part Approval Process as required.

As a team member of the Electrical Manufacturing Engineering team, you will support tasks and initiatives within our Quality functions.

This is an 8-month contract to start due to coverage for a leave.

We offer work life balance, flexible work schedules, a gym on site and free coffee/tea.

**IN THIS ROLE, Your Responsibilities Will Be**:
1)Maintain The Quality Management Systems (70% of time)
- Assist Quality/Safety Supervisor to provide guidance and support to Management for our Quality Management System and ensure our processes are maintained to meet ISO 9001 requirements.
- Maintain calibrations of all gauges, testers, etc.
- Review and update process maps, procedures and forms.
- Maintain document control and control of records.
- Coordinate defective returns/RGA processes internally and externally with suppliers or materials.
- Maintain up-to-date internal reports - Scrap and RGA.
- Assist with incoming inspection and other shop floor quality issues, DMT’s etc.
- Lead Corrective/Preventative Actions.
- Perform first-off and engineering new sample approval inspections.
- Cost of Quality reporting to Corporate.

2)Lead Internal Quality Auditor (10% of time)
- Organize, direct and support the internal quality auditing process that is necessary to meet company quality procedures and goals.
- Prepare Internal Quality Audit Report and present to Management.
- Coordinate with External Quality Auditors and assist in the preparation of any Corrective Action required following the audit.
- Organize and support Continual Improvement activities.

3)Other duties to support Operations and Continuous Improvement (20% of time)
- Support engineering processes development, PFMEA (Design and Process) and Control Plans, machines and equipment specifications required to support new & existing programs
- Create and sustain the standard work (Work Instructions) for assigned manufacturing products
- Assures completion of First Piece Inspections (FPI) and performs First Article Inspections (FAI) including APQP/PPAP for all components and assemblies
- Provide guidance, inputs and completes the process PFMEA in collaboration with Engineering, Manufacturing and Operations team
- Monitors product issues identified during NPD and the PROLaunch process to assure product and process readiness for Gate Reviews and product launch.
- Organize and support Continual Improvement activities.
- Assist and implement Perf(x) projects - Facilitator
- Operate within the guidelines of the Occupational Health and Safety Act and support the company philosophy of 12 Safety Behaviors
- Adapt in a changing business environment, when other duties may be assigned and become part of the job responsibility.

**WHO YOU ARE**:
You follow through on commitments and makes sure others do the same. You work cooperatively with others across the organization to achieve shared objectives and partner with others to get work done. You provide timely and useful information to others across the organization and deliver messages in a clear, compelling, and concise manner. You acquire data from multiple and diverse sources when solving problems; ask the right questions to accurately analyze situations and uncover root causes to difficult problems. You design processes and procedures that allow leading from a distance and identify and create the processes necessary to get work done. You gain insight into customer needs and build and deliver solutions that meet customer expectations.

**REQUIRED Education, Experience & Skills**
- Five+ years of recent experience in a related industry
- Knowledge and experience with ISO 9001
- Auditor’s training
- Familiar with engineering drawings, specifications, test equipment, gauges and fixtures
- Proven knowledge, experience and competency with: APQP/PPAP, product inspections, PFMEA, reading Control Plans and machine/equipment specifications.
- Ability to create standard work instructions.
- Strong analytical problem solver; skilled at continuous improvement
- Able to work well with multi-functional teams; well-developed interpersonal skills are required to relate effectively with people both internally and externally
- Ability to prioritize work with minimum supervision and guidance
- Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written
- Strong organization and project management skills
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office and proficient and comfortable using various computer softwa