Opening for an Advanced Quality Engineer in Novi, MI. Direct hire.
15-25% travel.
**Would prefer candidates with automotive seating background**
- Incorporates customer requirements into program AQP plan and assures requirements are cascaded to components AQP plan.
- Develops a program specific quality plan on each new program.
- Develops PDP (Quality) deliverables as associated with the PDP process.
- Reports all Advance Quality Planning activities to customer periodically through APQP meetings.
- Analyzes product quality problems and proposes solutions.
- Develops and maintains statistics (X-Bar & R, Sigma, Pp/Ppk, Cp/Cpk, Gage R&R, etc) on all significant part and process characteristics.
- Provides quality requirements for seat complete system.
- Develops prototype control plan; collects and analyzes pilot build data.
- Prepares pre-production sample report, submits to customer upon request.
- Provides quality/warranty concerns to team by reviewing lessons learned, warranty performance, and ensures additions to the DFMEA.
- Conducts surrogate process capability studies to support product dimensional capability.
- Supports JIT plant by facilitating DFA and PFMEA development.
- Supports JIT plant by assisting or facilitating PSO and PPAP activities (including PPAP to PCN changes after launch).
- Keeps good quality plan records and informs program team of timely execution.
- Use e-business tool to communicate with program team and customer, and assure APQP/PDP compliance.
- Coordinates APQP/PDP activities with Engineering, Manufacturing, Craftsmanship, SQA group, and the customer where appropriate.
- Authorities as detailed in Standard Operating Procedure 8000.
