Senior Quality Engineer

Senior Quality Engineer

Location: Farwell, MI – Lear Plant

Job Function: Manufacturing

Employment Type: Salary

Lear Corporation champions our teams and fosters collaboration, inclusion, respect, and excellence. Because we want to be more for you. A path to a better career. A better future.

As a member of the Quality team, the Senior Quality Engineer will be responsible for:

• Communicating with and representing the needs of customers relative to product information, quality requirements, inquiries, complaints, and corrective actions.
• Transmitting information from the customer to appropriate organizational functions.
• Ensuring that product quality standards are met through the fulfillment of customer requirements.
• Establishing and maintaining internal quality system documentation necessary to satisfy customer requirements, including FMEAs, control plans, work instructions, etc.

The Role:

Your work will include, but not be limited to:

• Assisting in the development of FMEAs, Control Plans, Quality Standards, Packaging Plans, and other documentation as identified and required SER activities.
• Performing dimensional/IFD inspection activities as requested.
• Performing customer and supplier PPAPs.
• Internal Auditing.
• Must possess strong knowledge of TS16949/IATF16949.
• Developing internal audit schedule and maintaining internal audit process.
• Performing internal audits.
• Training internal auditors.
• Performing inspection activities.
• Communicating inspection results to necessary individuals.
• Maintaining part template storage system to ensure templates are easily obtained and stored.
• Maintaining test buck storage system to ensure bucks are easily obtained and stored.
• Maintaining/updating inspection work instructions and data sheets.
• Ensuring all inspection measurements and test equipment is calibrated as required and stored properly.
• Problem solving/Corrective & preventative action activities – Assisting in the investigation of and closure of customer/supplier 8Ds as assigned.
• Actively participating in the research/communication of engineering changes and requirements between Lear Corporate and Lear Farwell.
• Positively enforcing company policies, procedures, and work instructions.
• Positively assisting in the development and achievement of company and departmental goals and objectives.
• Some travel to customer locations for quality support required on an as-needed basis.

Qualifications:

• Knowledge of automotive supplier requirements (experience in automotive industry).
• Excellent customer interaction skills.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills.
• Six Sigma training preferred.
• Software – Advanced Excel and Access, Basic Word and Outlook.
• 2 years supervisory experience.
• Team-oriented.
• Data-driven.
• Expert knowledge and application of Internal Force Deflection (IFD/ILD) growth process with the ability to teach the process.
• Advanced knowledge and application of Measurement System Analysis (MSA), Advanced Product Quality Planning/Control Plans (APQP/CP), Gage Control/Analysis (R&R), Geometric Dimensioning and Tolerancing (GD&T), Problem Solving, Statistical Process Control (SPC), and Internal Force Deflection (IFD/ILD) testing.
• Intermediate knowledge and application of 8D Database, Corrective and Preventative Action Process, Production Part Approval Process (PPAP), Product development process, Quality alert process, Quality management.

Equal Opportunity Employer Lear Corporation is committed to fair, merit-based employment practices and equal opportunity. We provide reasonable accommodations in accordance with applicable law.