Project Quality Engineer

Mann+Hummel GmbH•Fayetteville, NC

3d•Onsite

About The Position

The Project Quality Engineer will lead quality assurance efforts within customer development projects, ensuring compliance with both customer-specific and internal quality requirements from project initiation to closure. This role involves developing and implementing robust control plans, providing transparency on project quality status, and initiating escalation processes when quality targets are not met. The engineer will serve as the Quality representative in customer development projects, leading interactions with the customer’s quality representative throughout the APQP process and acting as an expert on APQP tools. Responsibilities include supporting the development of FMEAs, aligning drawings with engineering and metrology, establishing validation plans, executing validation tests, and defining/implementing gauges and measurement fixtures. The role also entails ensuring correct execution and documentation of dimensional measurements, supporting R&D, coordinating customer product and process releases, leading problem-solving for customer claims, overseeing the handover to plant CQE, and managing PQE tasks for global projects. Additionally, the engineer will assist with creating global FMEAs and master P-FMEAs, develop and supervise the implementation of a global Control Plan Concept, coordinate input from local PQEs, act as the customer contact for global quality, provide input on APQP/PPAP for Tier 2 parts, support project milestones, and coordinate the implementation of quality-related lessons learned.

Requirements

At least 4 years of post-secondary study in Industrial Engineering, Manufacturing Engineering, or related engineering field
Two years of experience as Quality Engineer or closely related occupation.
Two years of experience with Advanced Product Quality Planning (APQP) procedures, Failure Mode and Effect Analysis (FMEA), Statistical Process Control (SPC), Production Part Approval Process (PPAP) procedures and requirements.
Two years experience with 8D systematic, capability analysis, Measurement System Analysis (MSA), Product Requirement File for Purchased Parts (PRFPP) Poka-Yoke; CBD Sim Data Base; QDAS; APIS; and product quality measurement.
Two years of experience with IATF 16949

Responsibilities

Lead quality assurance efforts within customer development projects.
Ensure compliance with both customer-specific and internal quality requirements from project initiation to closure.
Develop and implement robust control plans for various project phases up to serial production.
Provide transparency on project quality status to the project team, Steering Committee, and OE Quality Organization, and initiate escalation processes if quality targets are not met.
Ensure compliance with customer-specific and internal quality requirements to achieve timely customer PPAP approval.
Serve as the Quality representative in customer development projects from project approval to closure, leading interactions with the customer’s quality representative throughout the APQP process.
Serve as an expert on the APQP tools and coach members of the project team.
Halt processes or product delivery in case of serious non-conformance.
Support the development of D-FMEAs and P-FMEAs with quality-related input and align customer and internal drawings with engineering and metrology to ensure specifications are feasible for production.
Assist in establishing design and production validation plans.
Execute validation tests and define and implement gauges and measurement fixtures for serial production.
Ensure correct execution and documentation of all dimensional measurements throughout project phases and maintain responsibility for the conformity of parts delivered to the customer up to PPAP.
Support Research & Development in defining requalification requirements in control plans and act as the internal quality interface for the Supplier Quality Engineer to communicate requirements.
Coordinate customer product and process releases during all project phases, lead problem-solving processes for customer claims or internal deviations before full PPAP approval.
Oversee the handover process to plant CQE (Certified Quality Engineer), ensuring proper application of quality controls for serial production.
In global projects, manage PQE (Project Quality Engineering) tasks for project phases 0 to 3, involve local PQEs in respective subprojects, hand over responsibility from phase 4 onwards, and ensure compliance with quality standards.
Assist with creating global D-FMEAs and master P-FMEAs for common part families.
Develop a global Control Plan Concept and supervise its implementation at local sites.
Coordinate input from all local PQEs on drawings and measurement strategies.
Act as the point of contact with the customer for global quality.
Provide input on APQP/PPAP requirements for common Tier 2 parts.
Support achieving project milestones in all local subprojects and coordinate the implementation of quality-related lessons learned.