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Quality Plant Engineering Leader - PSP
Job Summary:
Our client in Windsor, ON is looking for a Quality Plant Engineering Leader - PSP. This is a contract position.
What You Will Do:
QPEL Quality Plant Engineering Lead.
Principle Relationships
Main working relationships:
- Daily Operational Production meetings with Quality Plant Engineering Manager and his team, control tower to deal with quality issues / production.
- Weekly meetings with FQM manager.
- Weekly meetings with Supplier Quality Development, ENG/CCLP Cross Car Line & Project, MFG/VPE/GAPE to coordinate the progress of the 7 diamonds.
- Convening of the site director’s / quality managers of the most failing supplier sites. Meetings with suppliers.
Operational Context
- The holder of this function must contribute to improving the quality level of new and customer vehicles in a context of ever more ambitious quality objectives.
- The position requires great responsiveness in order to meet quality and production requirements.
- Autonomous in the decision (or to lead if necessary) to modify the automotive product or the process to guarantee the quality of the vehicles.
- Support the Quality Plant Engineering Manager to make decision to hold vehicles and market vehicles.
- Autonomous in the convocation and animation of suppliers, represents Company with suppliers.
- As soon as possible in order to avoid increasing outstanding rework area (issues on retouching costs and customer delivery time).
Responsibilities include but are not limited to:
- Define containment actions to apply for customer protection (including supplier Issues).
- Do vehicle issue diagnosis and root cause analysis.
- Ensure that his team carries out the pre-analysis activities on time.
- Do risk assessments and lead corrective action plans.
- Guarantee the product – process maturity of the components of his perimeter management of serial life (windows change management).
- Propose alternative product solution in case of issues (as shortage) to avoid to stop mass production in the plant.
- Participate in Quality ENG tech clubs.
- Implementation of good idea and standards (Read Across).
- Ensure the right application in the plant of the technical requirements and the meta function “métiers” standards of his perimeter.
- Ensure that the skills of his team is at the right level.
- Ensure the management activities of his team (daily management control meeting).
- Ensure that his team is working in safety.
- Lead quality KPI management to achieve quality objectives, driving improvement/corrective actions and escalation.
- Resolution of systemic/chronic or major quality issues (Top Warranty, Recalls, …).
- Technical support Yard Holds / Product Related Issues (PRI’s) technical referent inside the PRI.
- Set-up / On-going Controls for Process / product Standards for Vehicle & System Functional Objectives (i.e. ADAS, BSR, FEA).
Basics:
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or related degree field.
- Minimum of 8 years of related experience.
- Previous experience in Engineering Department, Vehicle/mechanic Plant or Project team.
- Ability to lead an Engineering team to deliver product changes and launches on time.
- Experience with Root Cause Analysis (RCA) and corrective actions.
- Strong communication skills, both written and verbal from High Level Meetings down to the Shop Floor.
- Ability to work off shift hours as necessary.
- Self-motivated and directed.
- Ability to thrive in a high intensity environment while working on multiple projects.
- Rigorous and pragmatic.
- Languages: plant language & English.
- Strong Leadership; influence and challenge team to achieve goals.
- Ability to communicate; represent technical challenges in front of senior leadership; develop strategies to resolve complex problems.
- Technical Awareness; Familiar with automotive electronic systems including modules and how to troubleshoot; investigate problems.
- 100% on site.
- Minimal travel required.
- Driving of a vehicle required.
Preferred:
- Master's degree.
- Green belt.
- World Class Manufacturing experience.
How You Will Be Successful:
- Envision the Future
- Communicate Honestly and Broadly
- Seek Technology and Business “First”
- Embrace Diversity and Take Risks
What We Offer:
- Competitive Salary
- Comprehensive Benefit Package
- Group Retirement Savings Plan (GRSP) with matching contributions
- Paid holidays and vacation time off
- Free training on all Altair products
Why Work with Us:
Altair is a global technology company providing software and cloud solutions in the areas of data analytics, product development, and high-performance computing (HPC). Altair enables organizations in nearly every industry to compete more effectively in a connected world, while creating a more sustainable future. With more than 3,000 engineers, scientists, and creative thinkers in 25 countries, we help solve our customer’s toughest challenges and deliver unparalleled service, helping the innovators innovate, drive better decisions, and turn today’s problems into tomorrow’s opportunities.
Our vision is to transform customer decision making with data analytics, simulation, and high-performance computing.
For more than 30 years, we have been helping our customers integrate electronics and controls with mechanical design to expand product value, develop AI, simulation and data-driven digital twins to drive better decisions, and deliver advanced HPC and cloud solutions to support unlimited idea exploration. To learn more, please visit altair.com
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