Quality Engineer

Position Title: Quality Engineer

Position Type: Direct Hire

Position Location: Oklahoma

Responsibilities:

• Assess process performance compared to customer requirements. Address quality issues with appropriate corrective action, utilizing a cross-functional team approach.
• Communicate with all levels of internal and external customers, providing appropriate and timely information regarding product and process non-conformances to customer requirements.
• Provide engineering support with appropriate quality tools and analytical techniques:
• Statistical process performance data analysis and decision making, including First Pass Yield (FPY), Warranty/Root Cause, and Quality Assurance findings.
• Lead and/or support corrective action for product, process and materials quality issues.
• Support APQP activity for new product launch, as well as existing product changes.
• Development of PPAP package for new product launch.
• Support Engineering function with FMEA and Control Plan development.
• Continuous development of a problem-solving culture, training and mentoring employees in all areas in problem identification, containment, root cause analysis and corrective action tools and skills.
• Responsible for adherence to the policies, procedures, work rules and instructions of the IATF 16949 systems as related to operations.
• Responsible for adherence to the policies, procedures, work rules and instructions of the ISO 14001 environmental management systems as related to operations.

Skills:

Bachelor’s degree in engineering and/or business disciplines, and three years of experience in automotive quality engineering functions; Or 7 years of experience in quality engineering functions, including APQP and PPAP. Automotive OE APQP/PPAP experience preferred.

• Warranty Analysis
• First Pass Yield Analysis
• Pareto / Rank-Order Breakdown / Corrective Actions
• APQP/PPAP
• FMEA / PFMEA
• Control Plan
• Total Productive Maintenance – cross-functional collaboration
• Corrective Action Process
• 8D
• A3
• Layered Process Audits
• Root Cause Analysis
• Fishbone
• 5 Why
• Process Capability – Minitab or equivalent
• Cpk / Ppk