Quality Engineer

Tenneco•Greenville, MI

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About The Position

The Quality Engineer supports manufacturing quality at the site, aligning plant strategic goals with Quality requirements and executing improvement objectives consistent with Tenneco’s enterprise-wide standards. The role uses technical and operational knowledge of manufacturing quality control systems to ensure products meet required customer standards. The Quality Engineer manages quality records, inspections, audits, corrective actions, customer concerns, capability studies, and quality documentation. The role works with plant operations and cross-functional teams, represents Quality during product launches and audits, and may stop production to protect customers from non-conforming product.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience.
3–5 years of experience in a Quality Engineering function within a manufacturing environment.
Knowledge of Quality Systems, including FMEAs, PPAPs, IATF, Ford Q1, DCX, GM, APQP, and MSA.
Verbal and written communication skills.
Problem-solving acumen.

Nice To Haves

Experience in a Tier 1 automotive supplier environment preferred.
Gage R&R and calibration experience is a plus.

Responsibilities

Maintain required records and initiate actions to minimize the organization’s long-range overall quality costs and maximize profit.
Coordinate in-process and final inspections of dimensions, appearance, and packaging to ensure quality parts at minimum cost.
Complete required audits at the specified intervals, including layered process audits.
Review scrap and repair work to identify problems and recommend corrective actions to reduce scrap.
Respond to customer quality concerns and maintain customer-vendor relationships.
Coordinate customer representative visits to the plant and demonstrate conformance to customer requirements for dimensions, appearance, packaging, and labeling.
Coordinate training and use of computerized data collection systems.
Conduct and evaluate capability studies on current and new equipment and processes, and provide documentation for production samples.
Provide surveillance over sample parts to ensure customer satisfaction at minimum cost.
Identify areas requiring process improvement.
Use G-8D, FM TIPS, or other customer-required problem-solving tools.
Maintain familiarity with Quality Management System requirements and help maintain IATF and customer certifications.
Make quality decisions on non-conforming product, including stopping production when needed to protect the customer.
Participate as a team member and represent Quality on teams such as APQP, Quality Systems audits, and new business opportunities.
Represent Quality on product launch teams.
Prepare PPAP, PSO, and other quality documentation for product launches.
Act as a liaison to the customer.
Maintain records of customer quality concerns and PPM levels for OE and Aftermarket accounts.
Conduct and provide direction on Gage R&R studies.
Engage with Operations in Poke-Yoke implementation and verification on production lines.
Maintain customer portals as necessary.
Perform other duties as required.