Project Engineer (Quality)- New Product Introduction

Responsibilities

This NPI PROJECT ENGINEER - QUALITY position will be located in Whitehall (Michigan) Casting and will play an important role in the qualification of New Product Introductions castings, assuring the quality of product produced and conformance to the applicable customer and internal specifications. This position will work as part of a team with Program Managers and Engineering in the development and qualification of new or improved products.

Job Roles

• Systems thinker--sees the business and its operation holistically; understands actions and reactions; considers multiple pathways of potential effect before decisions; thinks strategically about interventions with an eye toward scale.
• Optimizer--constantly challenging the organization to work smarter; supports others to ensure they have what they need to do their work successfully.
• Anticipation--looks ahead to minimize potential issues and maximize advantages; prepares others for what comes next.
• Operational accelerator--drives continuous improvement; understands ramifications of automation and other advances; advocates for safety, ergonomics and scalable solutions.
• Organization and structure--works within existing structures while striving to improve and standardize them; provides accurate information; galvanizes others toward common goals.
• Influence--leverages knowledge, relationship, data and perspective to persuade, educate and navigate; gains buy in and adoption of ideas and practices at scale; interacts with a variety of stakeholders.
• Data informed--focused on things that drive quantifiable business outcomes; evaluates based on quantitative feedback; knows and explains the “why” behind actions.
• Prioritized reaction--handles the unexpected without losing sight of important objectives; reacts where greatest leverage points exist.
• Relationship--connects individually and with teams across shifts and practices; builds rapport and commonality; creates a “win together” ethic; serves as liaison between shop floor and engineering; keeps the pulse of the floor; helps people feel heard.
• Detail orientation--understands and tracks multiple customer specifications and communicates to internal stakeholders; understands external audit elements and prepares organization and its functions, accordingly; implements and oversees final review elements; understands organizational capabilities and matches those to customer requests and requirements; provides easy to follow work instructions.
  
  

Job Responsibilities

This position is responsible for meeting quality requirements from purchase order to ship of parts. Tasks, as required, are performed to warrant the processing of parts to customers’ purchase orders, specifications and engineering drawings. Product Quality Engineer will have a technical understanding of engineering drawings and will have the ability to manage suppliers and/or quality projects related projects

• This position will lead the APQP process for NPI products.
• Process Certification - Defines and implements control plans and FMEA per customer requirements; Collects, analyzes and prepares statistical data per control plan.
• Develops and implements quality control procedures and standards for NPI projects (inspection, testing and evaluation).
• Periodic Qualification and Re-qualification - Prepares L/O and MRB forms; Provides additional support data to customer; Develops VSE/ESA requirements.
• Create and maintain documentation for quality assurance procedures and reports.
• Work with the engineering team to improve product reliability and performance.
• Involved in procedures that ensure that critical and complex aerospace components meet all customer specifications and blueprint requirements.
• Improves process performance through corrective action process and other initiatives.
• External customer escapes - Investigates and analyzes root cause and develops and implements correction action plans.
• Quality Audits - Formulates, performs and validates quality system and part audits.
• Quote Prep - Reviews BOM and routing and review specs and B/P.
• Process Development - Writes work instructions.
• Part Shipment - Obtain certification as a customer release agent as required.
• Coordinate with suppliers and customers to resolve quality-related issues.