Product Quality Engineer - McCalla, AL

The Quality Engineer is responsible for ensuring product, process, and system compliance with customer, regulatory, and internal quality requirements throughout the product lifecycle. This role serves as the primary Quality Owner for assigned products and programs, providing leadership in quality planning, process validation, customer satisfaction, and continuous improvement initiatives.

Key responsibilities include ensuring compliance with customer‑specific requirements, overseeing welding process validation, validating specialty material applications such as sealers and adhesives, and monitoring dimensional conformity through capability studies and measurement system evaluations. The Quality Engineer develops, submits, and maintains PPAP documentation while sustaining core quality documents including PFMEAs, Control Plans, Process Flow Charts, and related standards.

Job description:

The Quality Engineer is responsible for ensuring product, process, and system compliance with customer, regulatory, and internal quality requirements throughout the product lifecycle. This role serves as the primary Quality Owner for assigned products and programs, providing leadership in quality planning, process validation, customer satisfaction, and continuous improvement initiatives.

Key responsibilities include ensuring compliance with customer‑specific requirements, overseeing welding process validation, validating specialty material applications such as sealers and adhesives, and monitoring dimensional conformity through capability studies and measurement system evaluations. The Quality Engineer develops, submits, and maintains PPAP documentation while sustaining core quality documents including PFMEAs, Control Plans, Process Flow Charts, and related standards.

• Review, deploy, and maintain all customer‑specific requirements immediately upon release or revision and ensure process compliance at all times.
• Maintain complete oversight of quality performance, risks, customer requirements, and corrective actions throughout the product lifecycle.
• Verify welding parameters, qualifications, validations, and process controls according to approved standards, customer requirements, and production frequency requirements.
• Ensure application requirements are validated during launch, after process changes, and through periodic audits according to control plans and customer requirements.
• Establish dimensional follow‑up plans, review measurement results routinely, and initiate corrective actions whenever trends or nonconformities are detected.
• Conduct capability analyses according to launch requirements, engineering changes, customer requests, or annual validation schedules.
• Ensure PPAP packages are completed, reviewed, approved, and submitted before customer deadlines and prior to production release.
• Review and update all quality documentation whenever process changes occur and perform formal reviews annually at minimum.
• Conduct regular process verification activities and immediately address any deviation between documented requirements and actual practice.
• Provide accurate and professional responses within customer‑established response times and maintain communication until closure.
• Implement immediate containment, identify root causes, define corrective actions, and submit responses within customer‑required timing.
• Trigger containment actions within 24 hours of issue identification and communicate status updates according to escalation procedures with Group Leaders support.
• Verify corrective action effectiveness within defined validation periods using objective evidence and performance metrics.
• Monitor all open customer concerns weekly and ensure timely closure…