Quality Engineer (Lead Auditor)

Yanfeng • Highland Park, MI

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About The Position

The Quality Engineer (Lead Auditor) leads IATF 16949 internal and external audits and drives compliance, continuous improvement, and effective corrective actions across manufacturing operations. The role maintains the Control Plan for assigned workflows and serves as a primary contact for customer and supplier representatives, supporting meetings, reviews, and audits while maintaining positive working relationships. The position ensures the quality system is maintained in accordance with YF iOS standards.

The Quality Engineer facilitates problem-solving teams, responds to customer discrepancy notices, verifies corrective actions, and prepares customer correspondence concerning quality issues. The role reports quality issues, trends, and losses to management; establishes process controls; supports training for new projects; and participates in buy-off of new or modified equipment and processes. It also contributes to workgroups and PFMEA reviews, performs root-cause analysis with cross-functional teams, and supports quality and dimensional control systems. Strong working knowledge of APQP tools is required.

Requirements

• 1–3 years of experience in Quality, Engineering CI, or a similar field; a recent college graduate is considered acceptable.
• 1–3 years of experience with CMM and GD&T.
• Strong interpersonal skills and the ability to work in a team environment and establish internal and external partnerships.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Knowledge of the fundamentals of PPAP and APQP processes.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Outlook, Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.
• Strong working knowledge of APQP tools, such as Process Flow, PFMEA, Control Plan, PPAP, MSA, and SPC.

Responsibilities

• Lead IATF 16949 internal and external audits.
• Drive quality compliance, continuous improvement, and corrective-action effectiveness across manufacturing operations.
• Update and maintain the Control Plan for assigned workflows.
• Serve as a primary contact for customer and supplier representatives, maintaining positive communication and relationships and supporting meetings, reviews, and audits.
• Ensure the quality system is maintained in accordance with YF iOS standards.
• Facilitate problem-solving teams and respond to customer discrepancy notices.
• Verify corrective actions and prepare customer correspondence related to quality concerns or issues.
• Participate in internal and external quality audits and report quality issues, trends, and losses to management.
• Establish process controls, assist with training for new projects, and participate in buy-off of new or modified equipment and processes.
• Participate in workgroups, including FMEA and PSMC, and support PFMEA risk and failure analysis reviews.
• Perform root-cause analysis of technical quality problems with support from a cross-functional team.
• Support quality and dimensional control systems, including X&R charts, gage studies, Six Sigma, and dimensional capability studies.

Benefits

• Medical and prescription coverage
• Dental insurance
• Vision coverage
• HSA and flexible spending accounts
• 401(k) with 6% matching contributions and immediate 100% vesting
• Company-paid life and accidental death and dismemberment (AD&D) insurance
• Company-paid short-term and long-term disability insurance
• Additional wellness and discount programs
• Development programs, continuous learning, mentorship, and volunteerism opportunities

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Entry Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed