Position Description: Celgard LLC, Manufacturing Quality Engineer

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Opportunity Snapshot

This newly created role offers you the opportunity to make a visible impact on our organization. While we have solid systems in place, we'll look to you to take a hands-on approach to daily oversight of quality functions and identify opportunities to make a good thing even better. We are a flat organization, meaning our senior leadership will take notice of your successes. While many manufacturing sectors are contracting, our lithium battery business (you'll find our products in cell phones and laptops) is expanding, with no slowdown in sight.

As we complete a 25% expansion of our facilities, you will take a partnering approach with production and R&D in ensuring we are utilizing best quality practices. Pivotal to your success will be your enthusiasm for investing time out on the production floor with technicians and engineers. To be a good fit for this opportunity you will have a BS in a relevant discipline and 3-5 years experience with manufacturing quality, including ISO-9001 or QS-9000. A background in plastics manufacturing or blown film is preferred but not required. We're looking for a professional with the ability to communicate effectively with technicians, engineers, and plant management.

Celgard is a recognized global leader in developing, manufacturing, and marketing battery separators that are used in high performance lithium battery markets. Celgard battery separators are polypropylene and/or polyethylene electrolytic membranes that offer excellent product uniformity, strength, chemical stability, and energy performance.

What Else You'll Bring to the Table

In addition to the qualifications detailed above, you'll need:

Automotive industry experience.
Experience with a statistical software package (we use Mini-Tab).
Demonstrated enthusiasm for diving into issues, assuming ownership, and following though to conclusion.
Solid technical and analytical skills as well as a degree of business acumen.
A strong awareness of the impact of safety issues on the consumer/end user.
A strong knowledge on APQP, PPAP, PSW, FMEA & Control Plan

Preferred but not required:

ASQ certification, such as CQE, CQA, or CQM/OE.
Clean room experience.
Familiarity with lean manufacturing and/or Six Sigma principles.

What's in It for You

High visibility -- you'll report to the Manager of Quality Engineering & Systems (who reports directly to the Vice President of Quality and ES&H), and our senior leadership will take an interest in the improvements you make.

Career development -- we take a proactive approach to helping our people develop professionally, and you might take your career in a number of directions at Celgard. Most likely you'll learn some new materials and processes, and our R&D function is on site.

Great work environment -- you'll find a solid commitment to quality at Celgard; at the same time, we'll look to you to show the value of your efforts to others, developing partnering relationships and helping people perform and understand analyses so that continuous improvement is firmly embedded in our culture.

Excellent compensation -- in addition to a competitive salary and bonus incentive program, we offer a comprehensive benefits package.

More About Your Role

If you're a good fit for this position, you already know most of what this job entails. However, to be sure we're providing a complete picture, here are some details.

You will join seven other Quality Professionals, focusing on procedures, ISO compliance, and customer issues. The facility now covers more than 300,000 square feet, including warehouse and distribution, and employs almost 340 people.

Essentially our manufacturing occurs in two phases. First, we extrude large, multi-ply polypropylene and/or polyethylene sheets, and then roll and process the material. In the second phase -- the one in which you'll be involved -- we separate the sheets into a single ply, cut the material to customers' specs, inspect it, and package and ship it. If you happen to have a strong background in extrusion, we may consider involving you in the first phase.

We'll look to you to roll up your sleeves and become very familiar with the people, equipment, and processes on the production floor. In addition to assuming ownership of current quality systems, your mission will be to identify opportunities and innovations to drive continuous improvement. This will include developing metrics and other monitoring processes.

Your specific activities will include:

Developing and implementing innovative ideas to reduce internal scrap, including analyzing data to identify trends and developing DOEs to test hypotheses.
Developing and posting work instructions for the manufacturing area, and auditing compliance to procedures and work instructions.
Auditing corrective and preventive actions/poka-yoke for on-going effectiveness, and developing FMEAs and quality plans for your area.
Making major contributions to new product development and commercialization, including developing and enforcing APQP, and overseeing development of PPAPs and PSWs.
Assisting in preparations for external audits (QMS and EMS) and participating as an internal auditor.
Developing and monitoring control schemes for test and inspection equipment (calibrations, daily checks, daily/weekly records of inspection results, etc.).
Developing corrective and preventive actions for customer complaints.

Keys to Success

To excel in this role you will truly enjoy getting out on the floor and being involved in the day-to-day production; in other words, if we need to find you, we'll know the production floor is the first place to look. In addition, in order to be an outstanding Manufacturing Quality Engineer, you will:

Develop effective, collaborative relationships with people throughout our organization so that there is never a hesitation about bringing forward quality issues.
Be comfortable discussing practical issues with technicians, technical issues with engineers, and business issues with management.
Combine your solid analytical skills and technical expertise with a commitment to promoting Celgard's overall business objectives.

If this sounds like the right mix of challenge and opportunity for you, and you meet the minimum qualifications, we want to hear from you!

Who We Are

Proprietary Celgard trilayer membranes are a leading industry standard in rechargeable lithium battery applications. They are typically used in electronic applications such as notebook computers, cellular telephones, digital cameras, and other high performance devices. Celgard is currently involved in the Electric Drive Vehicle Market and planning to expand production capacity to support this market.

In addition, Celgard is the global leader in supplying battery separators for disposable lithium batteries used in photographic equipment, medical devices, and various military applications. Other energy storage technologies that use Celgard battery separators include vented nickel-cadmium aircraft batteries, zinc-air hearing aid batteries, and supercapacitors.

Celgard is part of Polypore International, Inc, a global high technology filtration company specializing in microporous membranes. Polypore's flat sheet and hollow fiber membranes are used in specialized applications that require the removal or separation of various materials from liquids, primarily in the ultrafiltration and microfiltration markets. Based in Charlotte, NC, Polypore International, Inc has manufacturing facilities or sales offices in nine countries serving six continents.

We are an equal opportunity employer. EOE M/F/D/V

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