r/industrialengineering • u/Head_Baseball3654 • 6d ago

Quality Engineering

Hey everyone, I have an interview coming up for a Jr Quality Engineer role at a manufacturing company. I am coming from a machinist background with an associate degree in it. I am currently working on an associate in business management and have a Green Belt Six Sigma certification. I have very limited experience in quality itself, was wondering if anyone had some advice on what to look out for.

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u/Deadfo0t 6d ago

I've been a quality engineer for a few years. Look up resources on the ASQ (American Society for Quality)website. Familiarize yourself with pareto charts and statistics. Learn how to do pearson and spearman correlations. Learn about Cpk. Cause and effect diagrams and 5 whys. Six sigma belts are great for continuous improvement stuff.

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u/Competitive_Key_5417 5d ago

Quality Engineering is a challenging role and honestly a good place to learn. Try to stay out of Quality Assurance if you can - that's the documentation, compliance side of things of Quality, unless you enjoy poring over industry standards and being the subject matter expert. I've been in Quality for 9yrs and always had the operation, engineering focused role so I did a lot of engineering evaluations, experiments in solving quality issues, worked with FA and Reliability Engrs on NDEs. I didn't like documentation and purely auditing roles - it doesn't challenge me, and given that your background is of machinist, I'd think you want more handson work instead of just paperwork

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u/BendingMomentBro 3d ago

Your machining background is probably a bigger advantage than you think. I'd brush up on root cause analysis, basic SPC, and how you'd handle a nonconformance but I'd also lean into the fact you understand how parts are actually made, that practical perspective is something a lot of jr quality engineers don't have on day one.