Sr. Engineer - Testing Quality & Compliance at Kohler in KOHLER, WI

Job description

Location: Onsite, four days per week – Kohler, WI Opportunity For over 150 years, Kohler Company has been a global leader in boldly reimagining the spaces where people live and work. Today, we continue that legacy by pushing the boundaries of design, engineering, and innovation—and we’re looking for a passionate leader to help bring the next generation of ideas to life. We are seeking a Sr Engineer – Testing Quality & Compliance to provide technical leadership in testing standards, laboratory quality, measurement assurance, accreditation, and global laboratory correlation. In this role, you will help establish and advance the systems that ensure Kohler’s engineering testing capabilities produce consistent, traceable, and technically defensible results. As a trusted technical partner to engineering, testing, quality, codes and standards, and global laboratory teams, you will interpret applicable industry standards, lead measurement system and repeatability & reproducibility (R&R) activities, coordinate inter-laboratory and round-robin testing, and lead ISO/IEC 17025 accreditation and audit activities. You will work across functions and geographies to identify variation, strengthen test methods, and establish common practices that enable confidence in engineering test results. This is an opportunity to have broad technical impact across Kohler – connecting external and internal standards and laboratory best practices to practical engineering application, strengthening the integrity of our testing capabilities, and helping establish a globally consistent foundation for product development and innovation. Specific Responsibilities Testing Standards & Methodology: Serve as the technical subject matter expert for the application of applicable engineering and laboratory testing standards within Kohler's testing environment. Partner with Codes & Standards and engineering teams to translate external requirements into practical test methods, laboratory controls, and testing practices. Laboratory Quality System: Own the technical health and continuous improvement of applicable laboratory quality systems, including ISO/IEC 17025 requirements. Establish and maintain processes that ensure testing activities are controlled, documented, traceable, and technically defensible. Accreditation & Audit Management: Lead preparation and technical support for laboratory accreditation, certification, internal, customer, and third-party audits. Coordinate responses to findings, drive corrective actions, and ensure sustained compliance with applicable requirements. Measurement Systems & R&R: Develop and implement measurement assurance practices, including repeatability and reproducibility (R&R), measurement system analysis (MSA), calibration, traceability, and measurement uncertainty as applicable. Evaluate measurement capability and identify opportunities to improve confidence in engineering test results. Global Laboratory Correlation: Lead inter-laboratory comparison and round-robin testing programs across Kohler's global engineering and quality laboratories. Analyze test-result variation, identify sources of discrepancy, and facilitate corrective actions and method harmonization to improve global consistency and comparability. Testing Compliance & Certification: Partner with Codes & Standards, Quality, Engineering, and external certification organizations to ensure laboratory capabilities and test methods satisfy applicable certification and compliance requirements. Identify gaps and coordinate actions needed to maintain or expand testing capabilities. Data & Statistical Analysis: Apply statistical methods to evaluate laboratory performance, test-method variation, measurement systems, and inter-laboratory results. Establish meaningful quality metrics and use data to identify trends, risks, and opportunities for improvement. Cross-Functional & Global Collaboration: Partner with Testing & Prototyping, Engineering, Codes & Standards, Quality, Product Dev