APU Quality / Calibration Technician

Valeo • Seymour, IN

8d • Onsite

About The Position

Valeo is a global tech company designing breakthrough solutions to reinvent mobility. As an automotive supplier partner, we aim to invent greener and more secured mobility through intuitive driving and reduced CO2 emissions. We are a recognized leader and one of the largest global innovative companies. This role is crucial for ensuring the reliability and accuracy of our measurement equipment, managing calibration schedules, maintaining documentation, and supporting quality control processes. You will be responsible for calibration, asset tracking, reporting, vendor coordination, document control, process control, validation, master data integrity, and auditing. Additionally, you will handle customer returns, manage non-conforming material, and perform ERP transactions. Operational reporting and data analysis are also key aspects of this position.

Requirements

• Associate's Degree or equivalent experience
• Minimum of 5 years experience in production / Quality Control
• Understanding of Standards - IATF 16949, ISO 9001, ISO 17025, NIST traceability, Automotive Core Tools
• Data Analysis Experience
• Basic Knowledge of Google sheets and / or Excel, Gmail, Word
• Equipment experience with calipers, micrometers, torque wrenches, pressure gauges, and scales
• Understanding of change management
• Basic GD&T knowledge
• Manage SAP transactions (Inventory, Scrap, WIP, Material on Hold)

Nice To Haves

• Experience in a similar line of work
• GageTrak Equipment experience

Responsibilities

• Perform small gauge calibrations to ensure they meet standards.
• Set up new gauges.
• Manage the calibration schedule to prevent late calibrations.
• Ensure measurement equipment is maintained, calibrated, and re-calibrated according to schedule.
• Track Past due / completed calibration KPIs.
• Manage calibration database and communicate calibration due dates for all measurement and test equipment.
• Generate technical dashboards and reports for past-due/completed calibrations.
• Troubleshoot and perform repairs on equipment.
• Manage the outsourcing of equipment calibration to external labs, ensuring they meet quality standards.
• Audit documents to standards and customer requirements, issuing approvals or rejections within electronic workstations (EWS), VQMS, and core tools database.
• Manage document change control for line processes in accordance with standards.
• Execute technical validation of pending engineering and production documents within the EWS / VQMS / core tools database, adhering to versioning protocols.
• Maintain and synchronize Google master lists and distribution matrices for real-time access to technical specifications.
• Notify and distribute updated documentation to appropriate team members.
• Audit production standards (e.g., OK start, work instructions, visual inspection standards, parameter setting records, magic square) and notify supervisors/engineers of non-conformities.
• Perform internal audits of production standards, including work instructions, visual inspection standards, and parameter setting records.
• Identify, document, and escalate discrepancies; perform root cause analysis and manage corrective actions (CAPA) to closure.
• Conduct weekly EASE audits and support StEDE (standardized work) assessments.
• Facilitate 5 Axes activities and participate in Hoshin Kanri data management and KPI scorecard reporting.
• Perform internal audits to detect and highlight discrepancies versus the standard.
• Process customer returns (RMA/RRAR), receive parts, confirm incidents, and communicate with Quality Engineers.
• Manage the 'Red Cage' (non-conforming material) area.
• Execute SAP transactions for inventory management (scrap, WIP, material on hold).
• Process customer credits for returned goods.
• Open and analyze all returns, contact the QE owner, and fill out the RRAR log.
• Match customer debit lists with parts received / RMA.
• Maintain weekly charts for Plant QRQC and QCDM boards.
• Generate monthly part sales reports using SAP data extracts to calculate monthly CLI.
• Manage Customer Score Cards / Update Hoshin Kanri site every Monday.

Benefits

• One of the largest global innovative companies, with more than 20,000 engineers working in Research & Development
• A multi-cultural environment that values diversity and international collaboration
• More than 100,000 colleagues in 31 countries... which make a lot of opportunity for career growth
• A business highly committed to limiting the environmental impact of its activities and ranked by Corporate Knights as the number one company in the automotive sector in terms of sustainable development

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: Associate degree