SR NPI/NPD QUALITY ENGINEER

Job Overview

Ensure compliance with product quality specifications, customer requirements and process requirements according to Lean PD, from design phase to formal product and process release.
Lead and facilitate execution of AQP Integration Form. Ensure elements are completed and monitor corresponding open actions.

Responsibilities and Authority: 
Active work with Customers, Product Engineering and Advanced Manufacturing teams located in regional and global locations.
•    Coordinate, review and submit PPAP documents to customers. 
•    Prepare PSW and Control Plans and conduct Process Capability and GR&R studies as part of PPAP submissions.
•    Get and define PPM levels for new customers.
•    TECHS in pre-production, PPAP+180 phase
•    Monitor Customer Portals for advanced quality portion. PPAP and complaints pre-production, PPAP+180
•    Proactive prevention out of control production processes.
•    Conducts MSA, CPK, Gage R&R for new product launches.
•    Leads cross-functional team for solving quality problems by using root-cause analysis tools for new product launches.
•    Supports IATF16949 and ISO 14000 audits. Participate in Internal and external audits. 
•    Follow-up of corrective actions from internal audits. 
•    Interpret and incorporate engineering drawings, standards, and Customer Specific Requirements into the quality system.
•    Know the specific environmental aspects and impacts.
•    Collects, registers, support and evaluates quality deviations during LEANPD projects until start of the PPAP process.
•    Responsible for auditing APQP Deliverables in LEANPD during the product and process design phase until the PPAP process starts are available and correctly integrated in the AQP IF.
•    Assure any project which is not in compliance with Lean PD are reported and/or escalated and actions to move to a compliance status are defined.
•    Participate as cross function team member in the FMEA meetings to achieve the quality standard, structure, and content.
•    Creation of prototype and pre-launch control plans within the team during LEANPD. 

What your background should look like:

Responsibilities and Authority:     

•   Part of the project core team and being the Voice of the customer as well as the interface to other TE departments during pre-production and PPAP+180 phase.
•    Supporting the “Lessons Learned” process during project start, during project development and in case of customer complaints to avoid re occurrence for new developments.
•    Managing technical information to the staff and employees, e.g., trainings, seminars, software, quality standards. 
•    Collaboration in introducing and training of new quality and engineering related software packages, Quality procedures and systems.
•    Training of standards in APIS (FMEA), Statistical software (capability), Lessons Learned Database, etc. 
•    Supporting the implementation of general quality standards in Engineering departments.
•    Representing the company to the customer in quality related tasks during the LEANPD project.
•    Follow and lead customer audits as a part of a LEANPD project. 
•    Support Safe Launch for critical projects to ensure 0 customer complaints before hand over the project to manufacturing site
•    Champion of the Reverse FMEA for LEANPD projects.
•    Performs actions to reduce environmental impact, as well as activities for compliance with ISO14001.
•    Authority to stop a process in which there is the possibility of harming the environment or/and that is outside environmental legal compliance.
•    Authority to propose the necessary training to improve the environmental management program. 
•    Authority to establish and control the necessary processes to satisfy the environmental management system requirements. 
•    Determine the environmental impacts and aspects of its activities, personnel, as well as products that it can control.

Education    
•    Bachelor’s Degree: electrical or mechanical, Industrial Engineering or Manufacturing engineering preferred.

Professional experience    
•    +5 years of experience in quality related activities. 
•    +1 year of experience as Quality Engineer automotive environment preferred.
•    Experience in an automotive regulated environment (Tier supply chain and OEM).
•    Project Management experience preferred. 
this position is located in Hermosillo Sonora, (Relocation included) 

Time to travel 10 to 25% of the time, it's important have visa to travel to US. 

Competencies