Quality Engineer

We Create Products and Brands That People Trust to Clean, Sanitize, and Protect Their Homes, Pools, and Cars.

When you join KIK Consumer Products, you’re joining a team that cares about the work we do and also about each other. We bring exceptional brands and products to consumers that help them protect the health and wellness of their families, the cleanliness of their homes and pools, and the life of their automobiles. We are committed to building a culture of performance driven by accountability, empowerment, collaboration, and agility that enables timely fact-based decision-making and exceptional execution with unwavering ethics. As one of North America’s largest independent manufacturers of consumer products, KIK helps a large portfolio of brands and retailers bring their products to life.

Your Role at KIK

We are seeking a dynamic and experienced Quality Engineer to join our team at Prestone Torrance. This is a position where you will be responsible for maintaining the company's quality management systems. You will play a crucial role in ensuring that our products meet our standard and your work will directly impact the satisfaction of our customers. This role requires a candidate who is a problem-solver, detail-oriented, and passionate about continuous improvement.

What You’ll Be Doing

• Maintain a formal quality improvement program, including supporting methodology, tools and training materials with a continuous improvement mind set.

• Assess critical-to-quality gaps, determine root causes, build business cases for improvement opportunities, and implement control procedures to measure and monitor results.

• Support global IATF qualifications, documentation and reporting requirements.

• Investigates and manages non-conforming batches and finished products.

• Provides technical assistance to other departments, suppliers and customers as needed.

• Provide training and support to the production team on quality control procedures and standards.

• Builds relationships with business leaders to understand business objectives and priorities, and to collaboratively identify quality improvement initiatives.

The above statement describes the general nature and level of work only. They are not an exhaustive list of all required responsibilities, duties, and skills. Other duties may be added, or this description amended at any time.

What You’ll Bring

• Bachelor’s degree (or higher) in a Science, Chemistry, Engineering, or related field/experience

• 5 years Quality experience.

• Strong leadership, ability to work in a highly collaborative and driven team environment.

• Working knowledge of various solid/liquid testing equipment

• Proven computer skill set including Microsoft Office.

• Quality Core Tools (PPAP, FMEA, MSA, SPC, 8D CAR)

• Good organizational, verbal, written communication, and listening skills. Ability to accurately communicate complex information to a wide variety of people.

What You Will Get

KIK offers a competitive salary and comprehensive benefits including health, wellness, dental, vision, life, and disability insurance. You can plan for your future with KIK's retirement savings options including employer match. KIK also recognizes the importance of continuing education and offers Education Assistance to our employees to encourage continued personal development and growth.

We understand compensation is an important factor as you consider the next step in your career. This position has a base salary range of $90K – 110K, plus an annual incentive bonus. The actual salary may vary based upon several factors including, but not limited to, relevant skills/experience, time in the role, business line, and geographic/office location.

About KIK

We create the products and brands that people trust to clean, sanitize, and protect their homes, pools, and cars. We are one of North America’s largest independent consumer product manufacturers with 20 North American manufacturing facilities. We also operate globally in Europe, Asia, the UK, Australia, New Zealand, and South Africa. We are known for our portfolio of over 40 brands including Spic and Span® and Comet® cleaning products, Clorox® Pool&Spa™ (under license), BioGuard®, and Natural Chemistry® pool chemicals, and Prestone® and Holts® automotive performance chemicals. We are also the #1 producer in North America of store-brand (“private label”) bleach and a leading private-label provider of laundry detergent and additives, dishwashing products, general-purpose cleaning, and other home care products.

Our global team of over 2,500 employees drives our capabilities in product development, product formulation, strategic sourcing, manufacturing, packaging design, brand marketing, project management, quality assurance, compliance, distribution, and logistics.

Our organization is constantly evolving and is driven by a set of “One KIK” values – a dedication to following through on commitments in a customer-focused, profit-motivated way; while never compromising on safety, ethics, or integrity.

KIK is an Equal Employment Opportunity / Affirmative Action employer. KIK does not discriminate against qualified applicants or employees based on race, color, age, religion, sex, pregnancy, national origin, ancestry, age, physical or mental disability, veteran status, status in uniformed services, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, marital status, genetic information or any other status protected by law.

KIK is also committed to providing reasonable accommodations for applicants and employees with protected disabilities to the extent required by applicable laws. If you require a reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application, or interview process, or to perform the essential functions of the job, please contact Human Resources immediately.