Quality Engineer - Cambridge, OH

Quality Engineer

Colgate-Palmolive Company is a global consumer products company operating in over 200 countries specializing in Oral Care, Personal Care, Home Care, Skin Care, and Pet Nutrition. Join Colgate-Palmolive, a caring, innovative growth company reimagining a healthier future for people, their pets, and our planet. Guided by our core values—Caring, Inclusive, and Courageous—we foster a culture that inspires our people to achieve common goals. Together, let's build a brighter, healthier future for all.

Our Quality Engineer provides a critical link between Product Development, Implementation and Support, Packaging, Plant Operations, and Quality. We're an energetic team that requires fast-paced critical thinking and attention to detail. You will be responsible for driving the site's quality culture through rigorous risk management, root cause investigation, and continuous improvement of manufacturing processes.

Responsibilities:

• Provide daily plant support to address quality issues and continuous improvement initiatives
• Assist in technical reviews of changes in labeling, formulas, specifications, suppliers, plant sites and packaging to ensure continuous improvements
• Interface effectively with key business partners including Operations, Product Development, Implementation and Support, Procurement, Vendors, and regulatory bodies to drive business results
• Conduct Good Manufacturing Practice audits to ensure plant compliance with Current Good Manufacturing Practices and conformance to Global Quality Standards
• Evaluate finishing line stability through Statistical Process Control and execute corrective actions based on process capability trends
• Develop inspection and rework protocols for material at the plant and the distribution centers
• Participate in product inspections, line trials, On-Shelf Quality Audits etc.
• Drive continuous improvement projects to reduce scrap, rework and customer complaints
• Utilize quality tools such as Change Control, Root Cause Analysis, Failure Investigation, Pareto Charts, Control Charts, and Notice of Deviations, and more to help drive continuous improvement
• Review and approve completed batch production records and associated quality documentation