APQP Quality Engineer

Company Name: ASTEMO AMERICAS, INC. Job Family:
Quality Management

Job Description:

• Lead the quality workstream and associated APQP activities for assigned programs from feasibility through launch stabilization and handoff to serial-production Quality.
• Serve as the Quality representative on cross-functional program teams and participate in feasibility, launch, customer, and gate reviews.
• Own and track Quality-function APQP deliverables and coordinate cross-functional inputs required for timely completion.
• Monitor quality milestones, deliverables, and risks; communicate status through the site launch-governance process; and escape conditions that could affect customer approval or production readiness.
• Ensure compliance with AIAG APQP methodology, IATF 16949, customer-specific requirements, and applicable corporate quality standards.

• Facilitate DFMEA reviews with Engineering and lead development and maintenance of Process Flow Diagrams, PFMEAs, and Control Plans.
• Ensure alignment among Process Flow, PFMEA, Control Plans, inspection standards, work instructions, Safe Launch plans, and production controls.
• Identify, quantify, and mitigate product and process risks before production release, incorporating lessons learned, customer concerns, warranty information, and prior manufacturing experience.
• Coordinate special characteristics, error-proofing, prevention controls, reaction plans, SPC requirements, and applicable AIAG Core Tool activities.

• Lead PPAP preparation, submission, and customer approval activities, including dimensional results, material certifications, capability studies, MSA, PFMEA, Control Plans, and PSW documentation.
• Coordinate manufacturing process validation, production trials, equipment qualification support, capability studies, measurement-system analysis, Run-at-Rate, and customer validation requirements.
• Validate that process controls, gaging, inspection methods, traceability, error-proofing, reaction plans, and quality documentation are implemented and effective before Start of Production (SOP).
• Serve as the primary Quality contact for assigned launch programs and coordinate responses to customer quality concerns, audits, readiness assessments, and open quality actions during development and launch.

• Develop quality-validation plans for transferred products, tooling, equipment, and manufacturing processes, including baseline comparison, measurement correlation, capability confirmation, requalification, PPAP requirements, and production-release criteria.
• Maintain objective evidence and clear Red/Amber/Green status for APQP completion, PPAP approval, capability, measurement-system readiness, control-plan implementation, Safe Launch, customer approvals, and open quality risks.
• Drive closure or formal escalation of quality-related launch issues before customer or production release.
• Lead the formal quality handoff to serial production after defined stabilization criteria are achieved, including PPAP approval, capability confirmation, Safe Launch exit, open-issue transfer, lessons learned, and acceptance by the responsible operational Quality Engineer.

• Collaborate with Supplier Quality and Purchasing to confirm supplier APQP, PPAP, capacity, and launch-readiness activities support customer and program milestones.
• Review supplier PPAP and readiness status for integration into the overall product and process approval package, while Supplier Quality retains direct supplier-development and corrective-action ownership.
• Participate in supplier risk assessments, process reviews, and escalation activities for critical…