What are the responsibilities and job description for the Quality Assurance Specialist position at FORVIA?
Forvia seeks a highly skilled Bilingual Supplier Quality Engineer (English/Spanish) to improve supplier quality in our Simpsonville, KY plant. The ideal candidate has experience in quality engineering and is passionate about process improvement.
Key Responsibilities:
- Initiate and validate corrective and preventive actions with suppliers for immediate containment actions.
- Manage process audits of existing Bought-Out Parts (BOP) where problem-solving actions are required and coordinate with suppliers.
- Collaborate with plant buyers to implement supplier improvement plans.
- Track costs associated with supplier non-conformance and ensure cost recovery.
- Monitor supplier performance through formal systems (QSS, Validate) and report supplier status as needed.
- Perform on-site audits at supplier locations as necessary for process and corrective action verification.
- Establish PPAP requirements and perform PPAP verification for engineering changes.
- Compile lessons learned related to supplier issues.
- Comply with and reinforce Forvia's Code of Management and Code of Ethics.
- Perform any other tasks necessary to ensure supplier quality integrity.
Qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree in Engineering with a specialization in quality or comparable experience.
- Minimum of 3 years' experience in the quality field within an industrial environment.
- Strong written and oral communication skills in both English and Spanish.
- Results-oriented mindset with the ability to work in a matrixed organization.
- International mindset; overseas experience is a plus.
- Familiarity with customer-specific requirements (CQMS, CQR, EBSC, eCIMS, EWT, GCS, NCT, PRAS, QNA, webCN, WIS).
