Quality Engineer

QUALITY ENGINEER NEEDED - PORTAGE, INDIANA

A Leading Automotive Supplier in the Portage, Indiana area needs a Quality Engineer. A Bachelor’s Degree is Required for this Position as well as 3 to 5 years of Quality Engineering Experience in an Automotive Manufacturing Plant. This is a Full Time, Permanent, Direct Hire Position offering Competitive Compensation, Bonus Potential, Good Benefits, Paid Holidays and Paid Vacation.

To review the quality policies, communications, programs and practices to ensure customer satisfaction is achieved. May develop changes to plans and/or methodology. Provides recommendations for improvements to meet program objectives.

• Performing internal audits.
• Provide oversight of the manufacture of products to ensure that engineering documentation is consistent with manufacturing methods employed.
• Coordinate activities associated with “first article build” of new products, ensuring that fabricated items are traceable to documented standards at the time of release of product into the production mode.
• Develop test methods/procedures to support product validation efforts.
• Maintain test equipment to traceable standards.
• Perform performance validation tests to meet customer specifications.
• Generate test reports of performance validation tests.
• Review of AITF 16969 documentation, instructions, procedures and quality manuals, and ensuring operations is in compliance.
• Provides support to AITF 16949 activities.
• FMA, 8D and SPC
• Customer quality issues and problem solving to include customer communication & customer visits as required.
• Manage production part builds and layouts as it pertains to PPAP.
• Work directly with engineering regarding issues and or engineering changes.
• Investigates/supports corrective action activities required by either internal or external customer concerns.

• A Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering, a related technical field is Required.
• 3 to 5 years of Experience as a Quality Engineer at an Automotive Manufacturing Plant
• Automotive Seating or Assembly knowledge would be desirable.
• Technical Capacity
• Thoroughness
• Ability to communicate with all levels of personnel including customers & suppliers
• APQP, SPC, FMEA, & 8D Problem Solving
• AIAG Methods
• Confidentiality

If you are a high performer and would like to work for an equally high performing company and you think the above opportunity is appropriate for you, we invite you to submit your resume in Microsoft Word format to:

We treat all resumes with strict confidentiality. We will always contact you first before submitting your resume to our client(s) for review. If you do not receive correspondence, you are not a fit for this position.