Quality Engineer - Lakeside Recruiting Solutions

Quality Engineer

Champion quality assurance and quality control functions. Plan, develop, and implement techniques, processes, procedures, and systems that eliminate and prevent defective product while fostering continuous improvement, standardization and waste elimination.

Responsibilities

• Facilitate and champion team development of new programs to insure that internal and external customer needs are met. (Includes development of APQP processes, Control Plans, PFMEAs, process flow diagrams, inspection standards, capability analysis, gages / fixtures, mistake proofing, etc.)
• Create & update quality documentation accordingly as required for corrective and preventative actions, process changes, PPAP & ECN approvals, waivers & deviations.
• Assist Program Manager with new program launches to meet timelines and facilitate indirect staff within the plant to arrange and coordinate a flawless product launch.
• Be a customer focal point for communication with the customer concerning quality and delivery complaints, and process changes.
• Review and approve PPAP submissions including customer specific requirements and IATF16949 compliance.
• Facilitate and document value added corrective/preventative actions using formal methodologies (e.g. 8-D, Shainin Red X, Critical Thinking, 5P & 5-Why principles)
• Champion containment activities for all concerns internal and external. Coordinate product returns from the customer.
• Assist Quality Manager in entering, managing and tracking complaints.
• Have up to date knowledge of all AIAG standards, IATF16949 standards, customer requirements and expectations, and monitor and enforce plant progression and regression of compliance.
• Promote continuous improvement to the quality system and procedures in an effort to increase value to internal and external customer’s processes.
• Assist and support each manufacturing department concerning process, quality, documentation and general input.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree from four-year College or university preferred
• 3+ years of experience in the quality engineering field, preferably in the automotive industry
• Blueprint reading, GD&T, Measurement tools, SPC, problem solving, ISO or IATF16949 audit training a plus.
• Detailed knowledge of Production Part Approval Process (PPAP), Advance Product Quality Planning (APQP), Failure Mode and Effective Analysis (FMEA), Control Plan development, Measurement System Analysis (MSA), and Statistical Process Control (SPC) and customers’ requirements to IATF16949.