Sr Quality Engineer

Provides quality support to assigned production operations to ensure the integrity of components and products produced.  Drives quality improvement efforts in assigned areas with the goal of achieving "zero defect" performance, supports process improvement and problem-solving efforts with the focus on protecting and improving product quality.

• Develops a complete understanding and assures deployment of Quality System, Quality Plan, and customer requirements.  Conveys these requirements and systems to assigned product teams and assures they are met.
• Proactively leads or participates in all product development and launch team activities including: design reviews, DFMEA reviews, DCP reviews, customer visits, supplier visits, DV testing reviews, and PV testing.
• Assures all quality related tasks such as control plans, work instructions, capability studies, inspection/audit procedures, gages and inspection/test equipment, etc. satisfy project needs, internal quality system, and customer requirements.
• Provides support for or champions Change Management System requirements as evidenced by thorough evaluation and planning, responsive input, effective controls, clear communication, timely completion of assignments, appropriate reporting, and system improvement.  
• Supervises and provides direction and support to daily activities for assigned Quality Technicians and Auditors.
• Proactively leads or participates in and supports team-based Problem Solving Process as evidenced by proactive identification, effective containment, creative idea generation, application of sound statistical methods and analysis, root cause determination, solution proposal, aggressive implementation, and timely and effective implementation of tasks to prevent recurrence.
• Develops product and process awareness aggressively to ensure decision making and problem solving direction is sound and effective.
• Management and appropriate company personnel to be kept abreast of progress until resolution and total incorporation of corrections.
• First Time Quality reports compiled and distributed as required.  Data to be utilized to aggressively attack causal factors for product and process failures. 
• Performs assignments within required time frames.  Prepares reports or other documents in a professional manner with the degree of accuracy and detail required.
• Process Control Plans to be developed, implemented, and updated as necessary to meet all standards, specifications, drawing, and process requirements.
• Test, teardown, repair, inspection, and final audit procedures established, implemented, and controlled.
• Test stand qualification studies performed, correlation to be established and maintained.  Limit bands developed as required.
• Daily and ongoing work assignments to be directed by the Production Manager and Quality Engineering Supervisor.  Conflicts in direction or in determining priorities of assignments to be brought to their attention for resolution.
• Platform team objectives such as cycle time improvement, inventory reduction, scrap reduction, MRO costs, labor costs, customer satisfaction requirements, or other objectives to be effectively supported within prescribed time frames.
• Positive working relations and effective communications to be established and maintained with all department and platform team personnel.

EXPERIENCE REQUIREMENTS:

•    5 years of Quality Engineering experience in the automotive industry
•    Experience with: 
o    Continuous Improvement
o    Lean Manufacturing
o    IATF 16949
o    Manufacturing principles and methods 
o    Manufacturing processes:  FMEA, APQP, PPAP, MSA, Process Flow, Corrective Action Process, etc.
o    Problem Solving Methodologies (5-Why, 8D, etc.)