Quality Management Systems Senior Engineer

Quality Management Systems Senior Engineer

Location:

Vance, AL, US, 35490

Employment Type:

Salary

• Maintain customer concern countermeasure list for Plant issues.
• 8D report creation and coordination.
• Procedures for Quality.
• Support internal quality issues.
• Support supplier quality issues.
• Support design changes and trials.
• Mentor technicians on Quality issues.
• Review procedures for the Quality System.
• Quality control activity management.
• CAPA concern tracking chart.
• MSA.
• GD&T.
• Maintain customer concern countermeasure list for warranty issues.
• PPAP Approval (PSW, AAR, Inspection).
• SWI’s for Quality tasks.
• Create quality inspection data and forms.
• Create Quality Alerts.
• Create Inspection Standards.
• Direct Maturity Workshops.
• Update control plan and flow charts.
• Create Monthly DPPM, RPPM, and warranty charts.
• Customer Audits.
• Customer presentations for Quality issues.
• Order tools and spec out equipment.
• Participates in design of call monitoring formats and quality standards.
• Uses quality monitoring data management system to compile and track performance at team and individual level.
• Provides actionable data to various internal support groups as needed.
• Coordinates and facilitates call calibration sessions for Lear staff.
• Provides feedback concerning quality team leaders and managers.
• Prepares and analyzes internal quality reports for management staff review.
• Responsible for new material sample approval.
• Confers and corresponds with establishment representatives to rectify problems, such as damages, shortages, and nonconformance to specifications.
• Ensures quality conforms to requirements; workmanship standards, work instructions, engineering documents, and thorough testing are used to assess the conformance of the product, and non-conformances are either immediately repaired and re-inspected, or identified and segregated from conforming product.
• Inspects the product and/or audits processes based upon the quality history, criticality, and capability of the processes.
• Develops methods for inspection, testing, sampling, and training.
• Evaluates production capabilities and recommends improvements.
• Assists in developing quality assurance policies and procedures.
• Inspects and verifies a wide variety of equipment, parts, and subassemblies to ensure conformance to the latest revision of the design specifications, drawings and industry quality standards.
• Performs inspection operations referring to copies of schematics, specifications, assembly prints and piece part drawings.
• Works with engineering groups to develop measuring equipment standards and techniques for new or unusual precision mechanical parts and assemblies.
• Examines, evaluates, and disposes rejected material.
• Tracks and reduces rejected inventory.
• Verifies conformance of parts and assemblies to specifications using various inspection equipment (CMM, surface plate, calipers, verniers, height gauges, etc.).
• Helps to maintain the integrity of the inspection equipment in the area.
• Ensures that all equipment is in calibration.
• Aids in scheduling calibration of the equipment with the third-party calibration lab.
• Assists other inspectors collaborating with them to exchange and share knowledge.
• Reports serious quality issues to the department lead and assist in working towards that appropriate corrective action recommendation.
• Performs inspection on returned material (RGA s) and determines appropriate disposition to either MRB or stock.

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering or a Technical Field from an accredited institution.
• Minimum 3 years working experience in Quality Engineering within an automotive manufacturing environment.
• Possess knowledge of IATF
  16949 quality management system and quality control techniques.
  • Certified IATF 16949 Lead Auditor preferred: internal auditor certification acceptable.
• Possess knowledge of VDA 6.3.
• Possess application knowledge of FMEA, SPC, TQM, etc. methodology.
• Possess strong analytical, problem-solving, and people skills.

Lear Corporation is an Equal Opportunity Employer, committed to a diverse workplace.