Quality Engineer

Job description

**JOB DESCRIPTION**

**Summary:**

The Quality Engineer is responsible for ensuring that product quality requirements are identified and implemented in order to meet customer requirements. Ensuring that the systems/criteria are developed, documented, and maintained for consistent quality assurance.

**ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:**

+ Work with all levels of the Oxford team to ensure customer concerns and requirements are understood and communicated

+ Access Portal daily to review customer concerns

+ Stop production when required to ensure customer satisfaction

+ Evaluate nonconforming material and identifies and reports on quality problems or trends for suppliers

+ Assist in the preparation of 8-D's, 5P's, PPSC's and present the reports to the team members

+ Controls product quality through the development and use of P-FMEAs, Control Plans, Process Flow Charts, SPC, Operator Description Sheets, Quality Alerts, and creating Quality Gates into the production assembly process

+ Ensure containment on customer/supplier quality issues and at customer/supplier

+ Quality Auditor

+ Perform 5S audits with all lines on a monthly basis and follow-up on all nonconformance's with the Quality Manager

+ Perform safety audits with all lines on a monthly basis and follow-up on all nonconformance's with the Quality Manager

+ Interact with suppliers to complete first time submissions. Coordinate with Materials and Production departments to insure effective, on-time implementation.

+ Recommends corrective actions and reports on corrective action status

+ Support product launches and ensures that process changes are communicated to the supplier and meet customer requirements

+ Knowledge of TS-16949 and manuals

+ Develops benchmarking and continuous improvement activities that increase customer satisfaction and exceed their expectations

+ Monitor assembly operations to determine compliance

+ Create teams to address customer issues

+ Perform other duties deemed necessary by the Quality Manager

Duties also include assisting in the day-to-day management of the Environmental Management System. Following all environmental work instruction and / or cleaning up spills or other duties required of the Environmental 1st Response Team.

+ Actively participates in Health/Safety/Environmental investigations and the 8D process in order to develop root cause analysis for problem resolution as required.

+ Ensure required Safety Audits are complete for you and your team.

+ Reporting accidents, occupational illnesses, and HSE&E emergencies, and inform supervisor of known HSE&E conditions which could adversely affect other team members, assets or to the public.

+ Ensures compliance with all safety procedures and ensures safe working procedures in assigned production areas.

+ Coordinates any required safety and/or ergonomic training with the Health & Safety Coordinator _._

**QUALIFICATION REQUIREMENTS:**

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

**REQUIRED EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE:**

+ BS Degree in a Technical discipline or equivalent experience required

+ Previous supplier relations experience

+ Strong written and oral communication skills, computer skills with knowledge of Microsoft Word, Excel, Power Point, etc.

+ Ability to define problems, collect data, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions

+ Familiar with ISO 9000 Standards

+ 2 or more years experience in the automotive environment all customer return material analysis root causes and corrective actions.

**PRIMARY LOCATION**

Bridgewater Interiors II

**COMPANY INFORMATION**

Adient is a global leader in automotive seating. We produce and deliver automotive seating for all major OEMs. From complete seating systems to individual components, our expertise spans every step of the automotive seat-making process. Our integrated, in-house skills allow us to take our products from research and design to engineering and manufacturing - and into more than 23 million vehicles every year.

ManpowerGroup is committed to providing equal employment opportunities in a professional, high quality work environment. It is the policy of ManpowerGroup and all of its subsidiaries to recruit, train, promote, transfer, pay and take all employment actions without regard to an employee's race, color, national origin, ancestry, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, religion, age, disability, protected veteran status, or any other basis protected by applicable law.