Quality Control Engineer

HL Mando is seeking a highly motivated Production Quality Engineer to support world-class production of automotive components. This role will be responsible for proactively driving sustainable excellence by ensuring product compliance, executing deep in-line defect analysis, conducting process and product audits, and driving proactive problem resolution across the manufacturing operation all with the goal of maintaining a focus on the customer.

The ideal candidate brings experience from an assembly environment, strong analytical capability, hands-on shop floor experience, is a team player, and a continuous improvement mindset aligned with HL Mando’s global quality standards.

HL Mando is seeking a highly motivated Production Quality Engineer to support world-class production of automotive components. This role will be responsible for proactively driving sustainable excellence by ensuring product compliance, executing deep in-line defect analysis, conducting process and product audits, and driving proactive problem resolution across the manufacturing operation all with the goal of maintaining a focus on the customer.

The ideal candidate brings experience from an assembly environment, strong analytical capability, hands-on shop floor experience, is a team player, and a continuous improvement mindset aligned with HL Mando’s global quality standards.

• Perform real-time in-line part defect analysis across the affected manufacturing process, identifying defect patterns, root causes, and containment actions (as necessary).
• Review dimensional, functional, and visual inspection results to prevent defect leaks to customer and maintain stable production quality.
• Lead cross-functional troubleshooting activities on the shop floor to promptly address abnormal conditions and quality alerts.
• Manage immediate containment activities, including segregation, generating sort or rework instructions, and communication with production teams.

• Develop, maintain, and continuously improve HL Mando’s enhance inspection documentation, Quality Technician Inspection Questions, incoming inspection sampling plans to meet IATF 16949, ISO 9001, and OEM-specific requirements.
• Conduct process audits to assess compliance with standard operating procedures, control plans, specifications, control plans, and error-proofing systems.
• Execute product audits to verify product conformity, measurements, performance checks, dimensional validation, etc...
• Document audit findings, lead corrective actions and follow-ups, and ensure timely closure with verified effectiveness.

• Lead cross functional teams using structured problem-solving activities using 8D, 5 Why, Ishikawa, etc...
• Insure read across actions are implemented insure problem prevention on other production lines.
• Drive proactive problem resolution by identifying early indicators of quality risks, initiating cross-functional countermeasures before customer impact occurs.
• Conduct data analysis (SPC, capability studies, trend charts) to predict and prevent potential quality issues.
• For OEM related Root Cause and Corrective Action, implement specific LPA questions insuring corrective actions implemented are monitored.
• Validate the effectiveness of solutions through corrective action follow-up audits, capability studies, review and KPI performance tracking.

• Monitor critical-to-quality characteristics in=line, manufacturing KPIs, and control plan adherence to ensure stable and capable processes.
• Support new…