Quality Engineer

Overview

Reporting to the Quality Manager, the Quality Engineer is responsible for providing value to the Vitro organization by contributing leadership, planning, and technical knowledge to ensure compliance with Vitro, customer, and governmental quality specifications and regulations. Continuous Improvement, Corrective Actions and TS16949 system Management. Strong problem solving and analytical skills. Ability to communicate effectively with operators, peers, management and vendors. Ability to trouble-shoot, analyze and resolve mechanical problems, plan, organize and share information. Ability to work independently and manage projects to established timelines.

Responsibilities

• Frequent contact with Vitro Program Management, plant and corporate engineering, and manufacturing to develop new products.

• Coordination of PPAP activities and ensuring accurate and on-time submission to end customer's systems.

• Management of all product engineering changes.

• Decision making that aligns with management objectives regarding work processes, plans, and schedules in order to achieve identified objectives.

• Working with corporate supplier quality and may work directly with suppliers to identify problems, conduct root cause investigation using formal root cause tools, implement corrective action, and verify the implemented corrective action is effective, and also identification of supplier preventive action needs.

• Participation and ensuring timeliness and accuracy of corrective actions for both internal and external quality issues.

• Responding to all customer quality complaints and warranty claims. Identification and elimination of customer issues using Quality tools.

• Maintain and update product/process quality information for continuous improvements.

• Responsibility for identifying and resolving specification alignment issues between manufacturing (process) requirements and supplied product.

• Quality inspection processes installation including training.

• New business projects & technical support on quality related issues for new product development.

• Handling Customer Complaints including Containment process, Root cause analysis (5P, 8D, 3Legged 5Why, Drill-deep, Drill wide Matrix).

• Coordination of reoccurrence prevention activities for internal and external quality problems. Assure

• Corrective & Preventive Action plans (CAPA process) are developed and executed at assigned.

• Provide weekly/monthly updates to management.

• Occasional International travel to Canada could be required.

Qualifications

Minimum 2+ years' experience with demonstrated ability with the following: Quality Management Systems ISO/TS 16949 including Internal/External Audits, PPAP, Run @ rate, Process Flow Diagrams, Control Plans, APQP, FMEA, work instructions writing & updating etc. Statistical Process Control / Statistical Quality Control, Process Capability, Control Charts, establishing control limits etc. Continuous improvements, Investigation & implementation of process improvements, RPN reduction. Project Management for New Model Development Ability to organize and manage multiple priorities, utilize analytical problem solving skills, and efficiently function independently as well as in a team environment. Ability to communicate quality issues effectively with Customers, Suppliers and other internal departments. Computer skills:  Microsoft Office (Excel, Word, PowerPoint).

Preferred experience in the following:IATF 16949, VDA's, Customer Portal Management, ICA, 5P's, 5 Why's, Fishbone, Six Sigma Green Belt, Automotive manufacturing environment, Cross Functional Team interaction, Process Control Plan, PFMEA, PPAP elaboration, and New Launch Experience.