The following questions must be discussed with the candidate via speaking with them and answers provided in this document. You must attach this completed document with every candidate submittal under this requisition for your candidate to be considered. Prescreening Checklist: - Confirm Interest in Job Responsibilities (manufacturing and quality engineering roles, from posting) from the posting.
- Confirm Interest in Location, Willing to Relocate to Waterloo, Iowa area.
- Confirm alignment to Shift and Working Hours (including potential overtime during week and weekends)
- Confirm alignment to Pay Rate and it meets the maximum allowable bill rate
- Confirm Communication Skills. Asking and getting answers to a basic question (is the person able to communicate, and put together a coherent response). Examples are listed below. You should be speaking with the candidate when asking these questions, they cannot be emailed. Please document candidate response. * Intent is not to get into a technical conversation. Managers have had some candidates who could not answer questions or communicate effectively which is important for a production support role*
- Tell me about a time you had to collaborate and work on a team project
- Tell me about a time you had to deal with an angry customer/student/coworker
- Tell me about a time you had to use problem solving or root cause analysis
Quality Engineer
Specific Position Requirements
This position will work 3rd shift (10:30 pm to 7 am) but candidates must be open to working both all shifts as production level change. Overtime is likely, weekend and before shift starts.
Manager is willing to see recent grad candidates with Technology or Engineering degrees. Manager is looking for recent grads THAT ARE LOCATED IN THE MIDWEST. This is a shop floor position so candidates need to be comfortable in this environment.
Will need metatarsals for first day, business casual dress code. No travel associated with this position. Person may drive a client owned Gator inside facility after successfully completing training. Visa sponsorship is not available, now or in the near future, for this position. Interviews will take place through MS Teams and the position will start onsite on the first day. These are the same positions/managers as JP37418, JP37352 and JP37407 so only new candidates will be considered.
This team has experienced quite a few candidates over the last few months who are identified as not viable during the interview or phone screen process. Examples which came up during the interview:
Unwilling to relocate to Iowa (when this is called out on the job posting)
Unwilling to work 3rd shift (when this is called out on the job posting)
Pay is not aligned (they are asking for something outside of the approved rate)
Lack of communication skills.
Lack of taking it seriously, lack of basic professionalism during interviews.
Due to this, we are implementing a pre-screening checklist that must be completed and attached with every candidate submittal going forward in order for the candidate to be considered. The document is now attached in this requisition.
This position is eligible for incremental, progressive retention bonuses at every 90 days for the first year on assignment. Retention bonuses are forfeited for those who do not complete their assignments or end assignments early. Subject to review.
This job fully integrates an individual into the engineering culture by performing specific quality engineering assignments that are limited in Product, depth and degree of skill required. Work plans and decisions are usually reviewed by others.
Duties:
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. 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. 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).
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. Assists in reviews and investigations of warranty claim information. •
Last updated on Aug 18, 2023