JOB DESCRIPTION
SUMMARY
The Quality Engineer is responsible for maintaining a good Vendor/Customers’ relationship by consistently exceed customer expectations, throughout proper product development and supply in a world class condition. All systems/criteria shall be deployed, documented, and maintained to ensure consistent quality assurance. This is a first shift role.
Specific Duties
- Prepare PPAP submissions for Customers. Interact with vendors to complete first time submissions. Coordinate with Materials and Production departments to ensure effective, on time, implementation.
- Understand full build processes to provide world class interior products to Customers.
- Follow through with process/product changes and implement changes according to plan.
- Read and interpret blueprints, verifying product compliance by utilizing various measurement tools.
- Develop or review forms for data acquisition from inspection operations.
- Coordinate the engineering build of development samples to verify proposed changes.
- Assist with the training of the Quality technicians, Quality Auditors and Liaisons of their duties.
- Promote safety and positive communications between the Quality Department Plant Personnel, Corporate Personnel, and the Customers.
- Provide leadership in troubleshooting, to analyze a timely resolution to material and/or any internal problem which may cause an interruption of work class product delivery to our customers. Ability to problem solve and resolve issues.
- Responsible for updating Global Issue Management System (GIMS) and attending customer meetings.
- Ensure 8D problem solving and Quality tools are completed for each NCT/GIMS issued to plant.
- Verify/update Poka Yoke audits and Product Audits.
- Monitor assembly operations to determine compliance with Customers’ statistical process control requirements to maintain the process within control limits.
- Create Quality alerts and post at station and manage quality alert log.
- Review daily customer scoreboard/ concerns/ other feedback and report out in the absence of the Quality Manager.
- Responsible for performing Control Plan walks and updating core documents.
Education and Experience
- Bachelor Level Degree in Mechanical Engineering or equivalent of fours years in quality experience in the Automotive Industry.
- Three to five years of experience in Quality Assurance with emphasis on supplying the automotive industry. Familiar with IATF 16949 & ISO 9001:2015 Standards. Statistical Quality Control Knowledge a plus.
PRIMARY LOCATION
Northwood Facility
What We Do
Adient is a global leader in automotive seating. With approximately 77,000 employees in 32 countries, Adient operates 202 manufacturing/assembly plants worldwide. We produce and deliver automotive seating for all major OEMs. From complete seating systems to individual components, our expertise spans every step of the automotive seat-making process. Our integrated, in-house skills allow us to take our products from research and design to engineering and manufacturing — and into more than 19 million vehicles every year.
