Quality Engineer at Socomec, Inc. in Crystal Lake, IL

Socomec Group (Socomec) is a global leader in electrical equipment engineering and manufacturing, specialized in low voltage energy performance.

Socomec North America (NAM) is Socomec’s organization overseeing all operations in North America.

About This Role

The Quality Engineer will initially be responsible for both supplier quality and product quality. Ensuring that all products delivered from a supplier, packaging and other operational processes are in compliance with manufacturing specifications and company standards. In addition, ensuring that all products delivered to customers are in compliance with manufacturing specifications and company standards. This is a wide-ranging role to achieve and maintain high levels of quality.

Key Responsibilities And Accountabilities

• Drives approval of supplier parts, materials and project subcontractor service activities, as applicable; this might include close coordination with other functions/experts and where applicable
• Ensures the supplier qualification process is executed in full and ensures the relevant suppliers are and remain fully qualified and compliant.
• Ensuring all supplier non-conformances are identified and controlled. Supporting their investigation to ensure timely closure/effectiveness
• Overseeing supplier quality function and establishing quality control objectives
• Leads the execution of supplier assessments, driving both corrective and preventive actions as applicable, based on supplier maturity and performance.
• Maintaining supplier quality records
• Maintaining relationships with suppliers
• Promotes early supplier involvement in product development activities to maximize capture of supplier innovation and improvements in Quality, Delivery, Cost and Risk Management
• Provide support to Supply Chain in the evaluation of new or existing suppliers, or items from a quality standpoint.
• Reviewing supplier documentation, such as, certifications, end item data packages, etc. to ensure compliance to requirements.
• Participating in continuous improvement and problem-solving activities, reviewing documents, drawings, and instructions to ensure conformance to requirements, and participating in cross-functional team meetings
• Conducts test protocols as assigned to ensure the products, systems or software meet specified requirements and customer expectations in incoming, manufacturing, factory test labs or final inspection quality, including internal testing routine and F.A.T. as applicable.
• Driving root cause analysis process, including problem-solving activities, reviewing documents, drawings, and instructions to ensure conformance to requirements, and participating in cross-functional team meetings.
• Assists engineering staff to develop test protocols as necessary to investigate the integrity of new products, or new functionality for existing products
• Ensuring all non-conformances are identified and controlled.
• Reviewing customers, suppliers documentation, such as, certifications, quality requirements, etc. to ensure compliance with the company’s requirements.
• Assist in reducing the occurrence of manufacturing errors.
• Ensures that identified problems from Quality Control are understood and evaluated from a customer/stakeholder point of view.
• Collaborates in the resolution of problems to completion, following robust root cause analysis and corrective actions.
• Provides feedback and advises engineering / R&D on improvement opportunities in product and/or process design.
• Evaluates test performance for effectiveness and efficiency to improve test design.
• Uses lessons learned from the field to improve testing in alignment with engineering.
• Performing quality system audits
• Promote employee engagement in safety programs and risk prevention activities.
• Utilizes safety systems to perform work, resulting in an accident-free workplace.
• Notifies others when unsafe situations are observed and works with local HSE teams to improve the safety systems
• Strong and successful experience leading and motivating a team of professionals
• Experience working successfully in matrix context
• Mentoring, collaboration, influencing, and negotiation skills
• Encourages and demonstrates accountability; focused on meeting business goals

Successfully establishes and maintains long-term relationships

• High degree of comfort in analysing and presenting business and financial information
• Full understanding of accounting and financial aspects of the operations

Comprehensive understanding of our business, markets and customers

• Result oriented and hands on
• Entrepreneurial, resourceful, innovative and energetic; demonstrates a passion for results and a winning outlook
• Strong verbal and written communication skills with the business acumen to clearly present concepts and ideas to a wide audience
• Consistently demonstrates the highest level of integrity in all interactions and decision-making.
• Proactively anticipates and actions business needs

Essential Qualifications, Experience, And Skills

• Bachelor's degree in related field.
• Minimum 5 years of related experience, ideally in a manufacturing environment with integrated power and power conversion products in various stages of prototyping, commercialization and production.
• Experience in selecting suppliers and ensuring the suppliers meet all regulatory and company requirements.
• Certification in Six Sigma, Lean Manufacturing, and other problem-solving techniques.
• Experience with ISO9001/ISO14001 Environmental and Quality Management Systems.
• Demonstrated proficiency with quality inspection activities, and the use of appropriate root cause analysis tools (NC, CAR, 8D, problem solving).
• Experience in creating and updating documentations (Procedures, Work Instructions).
• Excellent communication, decision-making, and problem-solving skills.

Compensation range: $90,000 – $95,000

Upon request, we will provide reasonable accommodation for disabilities to support participation of candidates in all aspects of the recruitment process. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex or national origin.

All applications are reviewed directly by the Socomec North America Talent Acquisition team and other human reviewers. No automated or AI‑based systems are used to make decisions in the application review process.

We thank all those who apply. However, only those candidates selected for an interview will be contacted.

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Pay: $90,000.00 - $95,000.00 per year

Benefits:

• 401(k)
• Dental insurance
• Employee assistance program

Application Question(s):

• What experience do you have supporting product quality in a manufacturing environment (incoming, in‑process, or final inspection)? Please include years of experience.
• Do you have a Bachelor's degree in Engineering? If yes, please specify the discipline and highest level completed. (REQUIRED)
• What experience do you have with quality engineering tools such as PFMEA, Control Plans, SPC, MSA, PPAP, APQP, or CAPA? Please indicate your level of involvement and years of experience.
• Are you authorized to work in the US/Canada without sponsorship now or in the future?
• Describe a quality issue you investigated in a manufacturing environment. What tools or methodologies did you use (8D, 5 Why, Fishbone, Root Cause Analysis, CAPA, etc.), and what was the outcome?
• This role is in Crystal Lake, Il- any issues with this commute?

Work Location: In person