Quality Engineer B Crew - Warren, MI - R-28500
About The Position
The Quality Engineer supports daily quality assurance activities, analyzes production data to drive continuous improvement, and refines methods to enhance performance. The position develops testing, sampling, and training procedures to ensure compliance with customer and industry standards. It also conducts audits, prepares reports, and drives corrective and preventive actions to resolve quality issues and prevent recurrence. The role supports customer submissions and approval processes, maintains quality planning documents, develops inspection and containment plans, conducts capability studies, and applies statistical tools. The Quality Engineer serves as the point of contact for assigned external customers on issue resolution, communicates between the customer and plant, and visits customers as needed. The position works onsite at Bridgewater Interiors II in Warren, Michigan, on B crew, Tuesday through Friday from 6:00 p.m. to 4:30 a.m.
Requirements
- At least 1 year of quality experience in an automotive manufacturing environment.
- Strong understanding of PPAP requirements and approval processes.
- Ability to read and interpret technical drawings and product specifications.
- Working knowledge of Statistical Process Control (SPC) and core automotive quality standards.
- Bachelor’s degree in a related field or equivalent work experience.
- Ability to work B crew Tuesday through Friday, 6:00 p.m. to 4:30 a.m.
Responsibilities
- Comply with BOS, ISO/TS-16949, and customer-specific requirements.
- Understand plant and customer KPIs and work with the team to meet or exceed them.
- Participate as a Layered Process Auditor when instructed by the Manager.
- Drive continuous improvement in production quality deliverables.
- Support PPAP package preparation and obtain approval from the Product Service Manager or Quality Manager before submitting packages to the customer.
- Develop and update Control Plans as required.
- Support the Manufacturing Engineer in updating the PFMEA as required.
- Develop inspection plans and containment plans.
- Use customer-specific systems.
- Conduct and document capability studies for special characteristics, ensuring customer and internal requirements are met or obtaining a written customer deviation.
- Support continuous improvement of Operation Description Sheets (ODS).
- Identify and use appropriate statistical tools, and mentor team members in statistical application and techniques.
- Serve as the single point of contact for assigned external customers on issue resolution.
- Complete customer-specific advanced quality planning requirements.
- Write and submit 8-D reports to customers in a timely manner.
- Visit customers as needed.
- Communicate between the customer and the plant.
- Initiate Quality Alerts when concerns arise and follow them through closure.
- Confirm root causes and corrective actions for all customer-returned material analyses.
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Job Type
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