Contract Quality Assurance Engineer
Singer Vehicle Design•Torrance, CA
•$3,346 - $6,200•Onsite
About The Position
Singer Vehicle Design is seeking a Quality Assurance Engineer to support the restoration and reimagining of Porsche 911s. This temporary contract position covers an employee's leave and is based onsite in Torrance, California. The role focuses on continual improvement, defect prevention, and reducing variation and waste across the supply chain and production operations. The engineer monitors manufacturing processes, quality data systems, first pass yield, cost of poor quality, and improvement opportunities, while ensuring conformance to engineering standards, product specifications, and customer expectations. The role supports the Electronics Department.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Engineering or a similar field.
- Strong problem-solving ability, a quality- and customer-focused mindset, and personal drive and stamina for continual improvement.
- Knowledge of quality problem-solving methods, including fishbone diagrams, FMEA, process capability analysis, hypothesis testing, Design of Experiments (DoE), Statistical Process Control (SPC), Lean manufacturing, and Six Sigma.
Nice To Haves
- Knowledge of electrical systems and components, to support the Electronics Department.
Responsibilities
- Contain defective products by owning problem definition, 8D reports, root cause analysis, disposition reviews, resolution-effectiveness tracking, and containment coordination.
- Detect non-conformances and process variations using standardized change control management, internal audits, and layered process audits.
- Lead cross-functional problem-solving teams to improve processes and products, facilitating issue resolution, root cause investigations, and effective corrective and preventive actions.
- Provide input during program development to guide form, fit, function, manufacturability, and durability.
- Coordinate FMEAs, product design specification and tolerance reviews, past-problem-history reviews, and supplier development to prevent customer satisfaction and durability issues.
- Develop and release product and process control plans, inspection standards, quality and testing plans and instructions, visual work instructions, technical specifications, and manufacturing validations.
- Implement enterprise-wide quality compliance, assurance, control, and improvement initiatives.
- Support development and management of the Material Review Board (MRB).
- Establish and implement metrics to monitor system effectiveness and support sound quality decisions for products, suppliers, customers, regulatory matters, and systems.
