Quality Engineer

Quality Engineer

The Quality Engineer supports manufacturing quality at the site, aligning plant strategic goals to Quality requirements. This role executes on improvement objectives consistent with Tenneco's enterprise-wide standards. You will leverage your technical and operational knowledge in manufacturing quality control systems to ensure Tenneco products meet required customer standards.

Key responsibilities include:

• Maintaining necessary records and initiating required actions to minimize the long range, overall quality costs of the organization in the interest of maximizing profit.
• Coordinating in-process and final inspection, dimensions, appearance and proper packaging of parts to assure quality parts at a minimum cost.
• Completing at the required intervals all audits including layered process audits.
• Reviewing scrap and repair work to pinpoint problems and recommend corrective action to minimize scrap thereby improving plant profit.
• Responding to customer quality concerns and maintaining the required customer-vendor relationship.
• Coordinating visits of customer representatives to our plant.
• Must be prepared to show conformance to their requirements regarding dimensions, appearance, packaging and labeling.
• Coordinating the training and use of computerized data collection system.
• Conducting and evaluating capability studies on both present and new equipment and processes.
• Providing documentation for production samples.
• Providing necessary surveillance over sample parts to ensure customer satisfaction at a minimum cost.
• Suggesting areas requiring process improvement.
• Actively using G-8D, FM TIPS, or other customer-required problem-solving tools.
• Maintaining familiarity with Quality Management System requirements and working to maintain IATF and all customer certifications.
• This position is authorized to make quality calls on non-conforming product up to and including stopping production to protect the customer.
• Serving as a team member when required and representing the Quality function (on teams such as APQP, Quality Systems audits, new business opportunities, etc.)
• Serving as Quality representative on product launch teams.
• Preparing PPAP, PSO, and other quality documentation for product launches.
• Acting as a liaison to customer.
• Maintaining records of customer quality concerns and PPM level for both OE and Aftermarket accounts.
• Conducting and providing direction on Gage R & R studies.
• Actively engaging with operations in Poke-Yoke implementation and verification activity on the production lines.
• Maintaining customer portals as necessary.
• Performing other duties as required.

Job requirements include:

• Bachelor's Degree or equivalent experience.
• Min 3-5 years of experience in Quality Engineering function within a manufacturing environment.
• Experience in a Tier 1 automotive supplier environment preferred.
• Knowledge of Quality Systems (FMEAs, PPaPs, IATF, Ford Q1, DCX, GM, APQP, MSA, etc.)
• Gage R&R and Calibration experience a plus.
• Communication skills both verbal and written.
• Problem Solving acumen.

We don't want average. We want exceptional. We want someone who's hungry to build, unafraid to challenge, and bold enough to lead with empathy, speed, and precision. Sound like you? Let us know.