General Description

• Develops and maintains quality methodologies, systems, and practices to meet the Customer’s needs.
• Support quality engineering tasks from program inception through 90 days post SOP, including; contract review, product design reviews, develop receiving inspection plans, develop process capability review in a manufacturing setting, manufacturing process approval, determine customer approval needs, support scrap and rework reduction efforts, and customer corrective action requests.

Responsibilities

• Work closely with test and process engineers during pre-production to improve reliability
• Support the development and implementation of new product manufacturing processes and validation
• Responsible for identifying critical characteristics during the initial design phase & implementation of check methods in assembly process
• Work closely with customers, suppliers, and internally utilizing and sharing prior experience in product realization and lessons learned
• Evaluation of new products, design improvements, processing, and cost reduction efforts
• Support customer and internal design reviews
• Support all customer meetings & deadlines as required to meeting program timing/requirements
• Provide in-depth product and process knowledge to all related departments
• Champion APQP process (PFMEA, Control Plan, Process Flow etc)
• Support Customer / Supplier PPAP activities
• Perform and analyze failure analysis / Prevention (poke yoke implementation)
• Regularly check, update, answer inputs on Customer Portals (GQTS, Covisint, G3PS, GPIRS)

Job Requirements

Work Experience

• 1+ years in automotive manufacturing environment or in a Quality related background
• Thorough knowledge and experience with validation requirements & processes
• Ability to review and analyze technical specifications and requirements
• PFMEA/CP/Process Flow Generation Experience

Education

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering focusing heavily in electronics, or equivalent experience
• Experience with validation standards, specifications, and OEM requirements

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

• Thorough knowledge of ANSI GD&T principles and applications
• Thorough knowledge of measuring systems/tools (CMM, Comparator, Calipers, micrometers, etc)
• Excellent Excel, PowerPoint, and general computer skills.
• Ability to navigate in a drawing/CAD program
• Thorough knowledge of Quality systems and procedures.
• Must work well in a team environment and/or independently.
• Thorough knowledge and understanding of troubleshooting or root cause analysis methodologies
• Ability to lead and direct Quality initiatives.