Quality Plant Engineering Lead - Body

Stellantis•Toledo, OH

5d•Onsite

About The Position

The Quality Plant Engineering leader is a direct report to the Quality Plant Engineering Manager. They lead the quality plant engineering team responsible for their designated perimeter. Within their meta-function perimeter, they ensure customer satisfaction, including warranty results and plant efficiency, by leading supplier quality, plant quality convergence, and managing product/process evolutions in serial life.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering or Mechanical Engineering Technology from an accredited university (or other Engineering degrees, in combination with relevant experience).
7+ years of related experience.
Previous experience in an Engineering Department, Vehicle/Mechanical Plant, or Project team.
Ability to lead an Engineering team to deliver product changes and launches on time.
Experience with Root Cause Analysis (RCA) and corrective actions.
Strong communication skills, both written and verbal from High Level Meetings down to the Shop Floor.
Ability to work off shift hours as necessary.
Self-motivated and directed.
Ability to thrive in a high intensity environment while working on multiple projects.
Rigorous and pragmatic.
Languages: plant language & English.

Nice To Haves

Master's Degree
Green belt
World Class Manufacturing Experience

Responsibilities

Define containment actions to apply for customer protection (including supplier issues).
Perform vehicle issue diagnosis and root cause analysis.
Ensure that the team carries out pre-analysis activities on time.
Conduct risk assessments and lead corrective action plans.
Guarantee the product – process maturity of the components within their perimeter management of serial life (windows change management).
Propose alternative product solutions in case of issues (e.g., shortages) to avoid stopping mass production in the plant.
Participate in Quality Engineering tech clubs.
Implement good ideas and standards (Read Across).
Ensure the right application in the plant of the technical requirements and the meta-function “métiers” standards of their perimeter.
Ensure that the skills of their team are at the right level.
Ensure the management activities of their team (daily management control meeting).
Ensure that their team is working in safety.
Lead quality KPI management to achieve quality objectives, driving improvement/corrective actions and escalation.
Resolution of systemic/chronic or major quality issues (Top Warranty, Recalls, etc.).
Provide technical support for Yard Holds / Product Related Issues (PRI’s) as the technical referent inside the PRI.
Set-up / On-going Controls for Process / product Standards for Vehicle & System Functional Objectives (e.g., ADAS, BSR, FEA).
Advance Customer Quality.
Animate customer satisfaction/quality through supplier quality animation, Customer Feedback & Networks (Animation processing of Palantir Foundry, Supplier Ticket IT Tool (SQP/NCT/Amadeus) and Customer/Supplier obeys).
Escalate as needed with Quality Plant Engineering Manager and/or Manager FQM of their Quality Meta Function.
Ensure Feedback lesson learned to Team Design.
Ensure the management of sensitive processes of their perimeter (noises, geometry, sealing, etc.).
Ensure the landing of Serial Life Windows & evolutions/events Product including cost savings.
Evaluate & Restore Hand-Over Profession ENG milestone to anticipate drift.
Pilot points of change to implement actions necessary to secure flow.
Participate in PPAP animation and issue a verdict J4 (project/factory transfer) or J5 (serial life).
Participate if needed in Panorama Evolution Product Process (on Master Chief Engineer request).
Support the plant in the safety of production on their perimeter.
Assist the team (expertise) as needed on summaries Diamond 1-3 (NC factory) and Diamond 4 (supplier NC).
Pilot partners/Supplier for roll-back in case of proven NC.
Protect the customer by setting up a containment (Interim Solution) or a control/rework dam.
Formalize Remedies (redesign) Diamond 5-6-7.
Pilot Remedy hand-over to Life-Series Redesign Teams.
Be the guarantor of the robustness of the plant monitoring plan.
Implement and relay the monitoring plan in the plant, which has the power to derogate from it.
Animate the performance of the different control/reworking workstations by identifying the traversal.
Make Layered Process Audit (LPA) on positions identified as sensitive in the flow.
Conducting plant maturity audits, sharing them and tracing reconvergence actions.
Lead their team (attached to the plant) & contribute to the performance.
Build the team's workload plan, guarantee the smoothing of the workload by prioritizing and allocating tasks, manage the subjects escalated.
Ensure the efficiency of the team through structured processing (A3 MRP, 5P, etc.) of problems encountered and risks.
Coordinate & Pilot the convergence of KPi Plant Quality (DVx defect/vehicle, DRR direct run ratio, SCA Stellantis Customer Audit, PPM 3MIS).
Skills cross mapping of his team.