APQP Quality Engineer

Job Description

Job Description

Position: APQP Quality Engineer

Department: Quality

Functional Area: Advanced Quality Planning / New Projects

Classification: ​ Exempt

Reporting Structure: Quality Manager

Skills and Training

• Experience in automotive manufacturing required.
• Prior experience in aerospace and defense manufacturing preferred
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Attention to detail
• Ability to solve practical problems
• Ability to work with minimal supervision

Job Content: Essential Functions Required for Job

• Responsible for Quality tasks and deliveries on APQP projects
• Quality planning during new businesses quotation phase (TFC, ELC, testing, etc..)
• PPAP management and coordination with internal parties, customers and suppliers
• Responsible for Quality resource and testing planning for new businesses (RFQs)
• Support R&D and Manufacturing Engineering with DFMEA and PFMEA creation, review and submission
• Coordinate Control Plan creation and review
• Responsible for IMDS creation, revision and submission to customers
• Responsible for APQP and PPAP customer portals management
• Responsible for creation and revision of Quality Planning procedures according to latest CSRs and internal findings
• Responsible for training and guiding internal departments on AIAG Core Tools and PPAP elements.
• Responsible for coordinating customer PPAP visits and subsequent actions
• Develop and track PPAP and APQP KPIs for reporting progress on new launches
• Supporting Production Quality on investigations and actions on new launch quality complaints.
• Coordinate Measurement schedule and planning with Metrology team members and production quality.
• Other duties as assigned

Basic Competencies:

• Courage, Entrepreneurial Spirit, Collegiality, Reliability,

Strategic Competencies:

• Corporate Competencies: Customer and Market Orientation, Process and Production Orientation, Mobility, Language Skills, Quality and Cost Orientation
• Technical Competencies: APQP, PPAP, MSA, FMEA (4th edition and AIAG-VDA, SPC, Control Plan, Y14.5 GD&T Interpretation, Problem Solving (8D, 5-Why, Fishbone/Ishikawa Diagram, etc..), OEM CSRs, IATF 16949, VDA 6.3.
• Soft skills: Strong leadership and cross-functional collaboration skills, excellent communication (internal and customer-facing), high attention to detail, proactive mindset, conflict-solving skills and analytical thinking.

Job Specific - Competences:

• Experience with OEMs and Tier 1s APQP CSRs (Ford, GM, Stellantis, Toyota, BMW, Mercedes-Benz, BorgWarner, Purem, Cummins, etc..)
• Experience with stamping and compression molding manufacturing.