Advanced Quality Engineer

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At Magna, you can expect an engaging and dynamic environment where you can help to develop industry-leading automotive technologies. We invest in our employees, providing them with the support and resources they need to succeed. As a member of our global team, you can expect exciting, varied responsibilities as well as a wide range of development prospects. Because we believe that your career path should be as unique as you are.

Transforming mobility. Making automotive technology that is smarter, cleaner, safer and lighter. That’s what we’re passionate about at Magna Powertrain, and we do it by creating world-class powertrain systems. We are a premier supplier for the global automotive industry with full capabilities in design, development, testing and manufacturing of complex powertrain systems. Our name stands for quality, environmental consciousness, and safety.

Innovation is what drives us and we drive innovation. Dream big and create the future of mobility at Magna Powertrain.

Mission of Position:
The Advanced Quality Engineer (AQE) for Driveline Systems (DS) NA will lead and take ownership of Advanced Quality Product Development of powertrain products, with a strong focus on coordination of cross functional teams to develop and implement customer specific requirements, proactively executed according to program timelines.

• Participates in SOR reviews with Customer and comprehends requirements to cascade and develop internal processes
• Develops quality plans to meet customer specific requirements
• Supports the quality of new program launches through collaboration of the program management and manufacturing facilities
• Involvement in problem solving, root cause analysis, developing corrective actions, inspections, SPC, and working with internal/external customers as needed
• Functions as the leader for Advanced Quality on Program Teams and ensures quality issues are resolved prior to launch of product (ensure mature quality at launch)
• Oversees and leads cross functional teams through the development of Process Flow Diagrams, Process Control Plans, and other Quality-related documentation
• Key participant on cross-functional team developing Design and Process FMEAs
• Works with manufacturing plant and machine tool builders to develop capable manufacturing processes
• Ensures APQP and Quality-related process steps are being properly and thoroughly executed by program teams
• Ensures identification of key product and process characteristics and deploy necessary controls to ensure specifications are met in production
• Identifies and ensures best process and product practices are used across similar processes and products
• Works closely with other functions and aspects of reliability such as Fault tree analysis and other risk assessment processes
• Knowledge of Functional Safety Analysis, ISO-26262, requirements, processes, and deliverables
• Supports and adheres to policies, procedures, and operational guidelines related to established quality management system (TS 16949, ISO-26262)

• Support of Project and Program Managers, Product Engineering, Advanced and Supplier Quality, Purchasing, Change Management along with Production Site (Launch Managers, Manufacturing and Process Engineers)
• Production Component and Equipment Suppliers
• Direct interface with Customers and ability to work at a high level in Customer environment

• Bachelor’s degree or related experience and/or training; or equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Strong leader with effective written and verbal communication skills who will drive processes and resolve issues.
• 5 – 10 years of experience in APQP Process AIAG /VDA
• 5 – 10 Quality Engineering experience
• 5+ years of experience in Plant Operations
• Experience in the following commodities a plus (Aluminum Castings, Electronics, Stampings, Machining, Heat Treat, Assembly Experience)
• Software Experience a Plus
• CQE certification a Plus
• Experience in Electrification Powertrain Products a plus
• Working knowledge of PFMEA (APIS), QS /…