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Title: Quality Engineer - CDR
Primary Location: Garza Garcia
Function: Factory Engineering (CA)
John Deere is a foremost leader in the ag equipment business, and we continue to put a solid stamp on other industries. For over 150 years, the company's portfolio of groundbreaking products has grown to include industries related to and outside of agriculture, including Turf, Construction and Forestry and Wind Technologies. The image of John Deere is no longer that of a signature green tractor meandering across a field; it's been replaced with an image of acceleration, swift progress, and innovative leaping toward the company's 200th year. The product line alone serves as proof with advances in machine performance, equipment automation, fleet management, and John Deere's ongoing investment in emerging markets.
**Main responsabilities**:
- Carry out a range of activities under the guidance of more senior colleagues to support the analysis of information and the specification of the methods and process steps, as well as the plant, machinery, and equipment, required to design and continuously improve manufacturing or materials processes and process systems.
- Contribute to the development of, and implement feasibility testing of, proposed engineering solutions to provide feedback and data to validate the design.
- Carry out a range of activities under the guidance of more senior colleagues to support the drafting of engineering standards and specifications and the evaluation of the effectiveness of those standards.
- Carry out inspections under the supervision of senior colleagues to evaluate the quality of engineering works and/or the integrity of existing installations or structures and make recommendations to senior colleagues on the remedial works needed to ensure conformance with specifications and regulatory requirements.
- Deliver required outcomes by coordinating activities of subcontractors and suppliers and acting as a primary point of contact for them while working within an established contract management plan.
- Identify shortcomings in existing processes, systems, and procedures, and use established change management programs to address them.
- Help others get the most out of knowledge management systems by offering support and advice.
- Carry out a range of product development and engineering activities.
- Use established systems to analyze customer needs and define and deliver products.
- Work within an established project management plan to achieve specific goals.
**What Skills You Need**:
- Performs quality audits, including supporting International Standards Organization (ISO) audits, and maintains quality manual.
- Inputs and maintains information in factory databases and systems. Monitors quality plan tracking system.
- Learns and uses quality tools consistent with quality processes to enable the focus on prevention by identifying and performing activities to minimize risk.
- Investigates product and process quality related issues and recommends changes to control plans and/or prints.
- Learns and uses quality planning tools and analysis to formulate/facilitate quality plans for new products within the product delivery, order fulfillment or customer support processes.
- Gathers and analyzes data pertinent to quality tools in the Enterprise Order Fulfillment Process (EOFP), Enterprise Product Delivery Process (EPDP) and/or Customer Support Process (CSP).
**What Makes You Stand Out**:
- basic data analysis techniques. (e.g. pareto charts, histograms, pie and bar charts and control plans.)
- Effective writing skills, including grammatical usage, persuasive copy and style.
- Knowledge of drawing and schematic interpretation.
- Knowledge of manufacturing and/or distribution processes.
- Knowledge of standard quality tools such as FMEA (Failure Modes Effect Analysis), SPC (Statistical Process Control), Root Cause Analysis, Statistics.
- Knowledge of the content and format of information retrieval technologies and resources, including the ability to critically evaluate, assess, select and use them, and to communicate their value throughout the enterprise**.**
**Education**:
- Bachelor´s degree Industrial, Mechanic, Mechatronic engineer