About this role
Open the Door to Your Future with Clopay Corporation & CornellCookson
At Clopay Corporation, we are more than just North America’s largest residential and commercial garage door manufacturer—we are a powerhouse of innovation, safety, and design. Through our premier brands, we lead the industry in providing groundbreaking high-performance closure solutions for both the places people call home and the spaces where the world does business.
Headquartered in Mason, Ohio, and operating state-of-the-art manufacturing facilities in Troy, Ohio, Mountaintop, Pennsylvania, and Goodyear, Arizona, we are a proud American-owned company and a wholly-owned subsidiary of Griffon Corporation. Our reach extends across 55+ distribution centers and thousands of retail locations in the U.S. and Canada ensuring that we deliver the right door for every opening – from homes to businesses and beyond.
By joining our team, you become part of a legacy that blends the residential elegance of Clopay, known as "America’s Favorite Garage Doors," with the industrial strength and 180-year heritage of our rolling brands, Cornell and Cookson. Together, we secure everything from family garages to the world's most iconic stadiums and skyscrapers.
We currently have an opening for a Quality Engineer in our Troy, Ohio, location.
Responsibilities include:
• Lead continual improvement by promoting quality achievement and performance improvement throughout the organization.
• Develop, implement, communicate, and maintain a quality plan to bring the Company’s Quality Management System and Policies into compliance with the ISO 9001:2015 international standard.
• Communicates with engineering, production, and supply chain teams to implement process improvements and monitor effectiveness.
• Work with the supply chain to establish, implement, and audit quality requirements for external suppliers.
• Manage and maintain the Company’s quality inspection and product release programs for raw materials, components, and finished goods through receiving, in-process, and finished goods.
• Perform inspection and testing of stamped, machined, split steel, injection molded components, and final assemblies for conformance to design and configuration requirements.
• Assess the product specifications of the company and its suppliers, and compare with customer requirements.
• Define quality procedures in conjunction with operating staff.
• Liaison with our customers’ quality team and internal and external auditors.
• Ensure the execution of corrective action and compliance with customers’ specifications.
• Drive the company’s Quality Management System (QMS) and perform the responsibilities associated with the Management Representative.
• Support production areas to meet quality specifications by managing quality improvement projects.
• Identify potential quality risks and take a proactive approach to eliminate the risk.
• Lead/advise assembly quality staff in analytical approach for root cause analysis and problem solving.
• Ability to read and understand drawings/measure parts to confirm parts meet specifications.
• Research the latest mass production manufacturing technologies.
• Provide engineering support to operations, ensuring consistent application of quality techniques.
• Determine when process stability and capability studies should be performed on existing processes. Review and analyze results. Recommend changes to processes based upon findings and perform follow-up to verify effectiveness.
• Coordinate pre-launch production trial run process monitoring.
• Participate in the development of Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (FMEA).
• Maintain Control Plans and FMEAs throughout the life of the part.
• Apply appropriate use of statistical techniques.
• Determine and apply appropriate Measurement System Analysis tools.
• Recommend and implement enhancements to the quality system that result in improved corporate quality performance, increased customer satisfaction, and/or simplification of processes to reduce costs.
• Oversee the controlled document system, to include a final review of all changes to procedures, work instructions, forms, master lists, and other associated documents to ensure quality certification requirements are met.
• Manage quality metrics and present findings and recommendations to the management review team.
• Job Requirements:
• Bachelor’s degree in engineering required.
• ASQ Certification (Quality Auditor, Quality Engineer, Quality Improvement Associate).
• Lean Six Sigma Belt.
• Strong computer skills, including Microsoft Office and Statistical Software.
• Knowledge of tools, concepts, and methodologies of QA.
$90,000 to $100,000