Quality Engineer

What do we do?

Spartan Light Metal Products is on the cutting edge of automotive manufacturing. We make highly engineered parts for electric, and fuel powered vehicles. Our parts go on automakers like General Motors, Ford, Toyota and Honda. The Company is family owned and we have lived our family values for the past 60 years. We believe in servant leadership, collaboration, safety and quality.

We have talented people that work hard and have fun.

What will you do?

At Spartan, we want you to learn and grow! In the Maintenance Tech role, you will provide electrical, electronic, mechanical and hydraulic repair and maintenance support, including some fabrication. As Maintenance Tech, you will perform various support activities for die maintenance and machine shop functions. You will demonstrate Spartan's core operating values and code of conduct through actions and behaviors.

Benefits!

Comprehensive benefit package, including medical, dental, vision, company provided life insurance!

401k Match!

Tuition reimbursement!

Growth and development opportunities!

Bonus opportunities!

Compensation: $75K - $90K per year

Summary

Leads and manages in the advance quality control activities in coordination with the Launch Engineer and interfaces with site customer quality engineering, product engineering, and manufacturing staff in order to develop and execute the quality control system for new product launches. Ensures the quality system is in place to assure ongoing compliance with the customer specifications in production. Performs advanced quality planning, development of the gaging strategy and acquisition of the product gage package for launches.

Responsible for providing coverage support for Quality Manager and ensures point of contact with Customer quality.

As part of the Engineering team, participates in the attainment of department and company goals and demonstrates Spartan's core operating values through work activities, actions and behaviors.

PRINCIPAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

1. Participates, as required, in the development of quote proposals for new business opportunities.

• Evaluates customer prints, models, and other quality input documents.

• Develops gaging strategies to support quoting needs.

• Provides input to develop gaging package budget to support quoting needs.

• Develops gaging vendors to support Spartan's quality standards and operational needs.

2. Develops the specific gaging strategy for new product launches.

• Sources the gaging package to the suppliers.

• Conducts design reviews and run-off's with the gaging suppliers.

• Works with launch engineering to maintain budget negotiations for the gaging package.

• Works with site quality and operations to support the Spartan gaging strategy.

3. Leads the launch team in the creation of PFMEA's, Control Plans and other quality documentation for new product launches.

• Works with the launch team to create the quality documents.

• Creates all documentation to follow a one Spartan standard.

• Applies all Lessons Learned and 8-D of like products to the new quality documentation and quality plans.

• Maintains a standardize identification of RPN's for Spartan.

4. Assists in the development and coordination of APQP documentation.

5. Assists engineering in the measurement and establishment of process capability studies for die cast trials, vendor machine run-offs and component supplier manufacturing processes.

* Acts as the expert for determining if a process is stable and robust by applying statistical methods.

* Evaluates capability studies, assists in the set-up/planning of process trials, assists in analyzing data, and validates conclusions.

* Assists in the engineering of solutions to establish capable processes that meet customer expectations.

6. Facilitates discipline approach to problem solving as necessary during the launch phase of new products.

7. Supports Spartan's New Product Review process (NPR) for the launch of new products with the following responsibilities:

Primary Responsibilities:

* Reviews customer inputs: significant and critical characteristics, DFMEA, Warranty and Durability targets.

* Reviews Spartan Lesson Learned documentation.

* Develops the quality…