Engineer, Quality

Job Description

Lead and coordinate plant quality activities, ensuring customer-defined quality issues are resolved through corrective/preventive actions, proper use of statistical tools, and compliance with IATF 16949.

Main Responsibilities

• Resolve customer-identified quality issues and prepare corrective/preventive actions, follow up, verification, and release.
• Control and lead scrap and containment problem solving.
• Ensure manufacturing runs with best quality and zero downtime through effective resource use and statistical tools.
• Serve as the link between customer, plant, and supplier for all quality concerns.
• Lead cross‑functional problem‑solving teams for internal issues (IPPM, COPQ, Product Audit).
• Monitor key operational metrics and take corrective actions as appropriate.
• Maintain and improve the Measurement System Analysis Plan; ensure Gage studies (R&R, bias, linearity, stability) on all gaging.
• Lead plant quality activities such as IPPM, offline inspection training, visual management, quality alerts, and containment actions when issues arise.
• Ensure compliance with IATF 16949, BOS, and customer requirements.
• Communicate customer quality requirements to plant members and keep them updated.

Optional Responsibilities

• Monitor key operational metrics and implement containment strategies.
• Ensure quality system compliance with IATF 16949, BOS, and customer requirements.

Customer Requirements

• Understand and communicate customer quality requirements for all customers.

HSE Expectation

• Conduct safety talks, share findings, provide feedback, and maintain updates.
• Volunteer for safety meetings and take immediate action on safety issues.
• Keep JSA/Risk assessment and environmental aspects current for routine and non‑routine activities.
• Participate in safety activities and initiatives (AMS, safety week, 5S, HSE training, proper PPE).

Qualifications (Education, Skills, and Experience)

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering.
• Minimum 5 years post‑qualification experience in manufacturing, with at least one year as Supplier Quality Engineer or Plant Quality Engineer, preferably in a multi‑national company.
• Knowledge of advanced quality planning: AIAG, FMEA, PPAP, dimensional layouts, gage/fixture design, performance/material testing.
• Strong statistical concepts, design of experiments, and problem‑solving methodology.
• Experience with manufacturing quality systems and customer communication.
• Professional certification in quality engineering is desirable.
• Solid communication, interpersonal, and team‑inspiring skills.
• Background in ISO/TS16949, continuous improvement, TQM, PPAP, FMEA, control plans, DOE, and SPC.

Reporting Relationship

• Direct: Manager, Quality
• Functional: Manager, Plant

Primary Location

Adient AE THA Metal

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