Sr. Engineer, Process Quality

Adient; Ae; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

Adient is seeking a Quality Assurance professional to lead advanced quality planning activities across prototype, pre-production and production phases. Responsibilities include PPAP coordination, supplier QA planning, Gage R&R, PFMEA/DFMEA, and environmental/safety compliance.

Role requires collaboration with SDT members and customer-facing documentation, ensuring on-time delivery of QA artifacts and adherence to BOS/Control Plans.

Qualifications

Responsibilities

• Participate in Safety Sign-Offs, Design Reviews, Program Reviews, and Phase Exit Reviews.
• Execute Supplier Advanced Quality Planning elements: SAQP kick-off, Process Sign-Off, and PPAP approval.
• Develop the Prototype, Pre-production, and Production Control Plans.
• Develop the Measurement System Analysis Plan; ensure Gage R&R studies are conducted and corrective actions taken.
• Implement Manufacturing Quality Systems for prototype and pre-production builds per BOS/Control Plan.
• Complete inspection reports for components used in prototype and pre-production builds.
• Perform capability studies for program characteristics and ensure requirements are met (or obtain deviations).
• Manage color/appearance approval through PPAP, preparing/ coordinating customer submission paperwork.
• Coordinate preparation and on-time delivery of PPAP packages for submission and approval by the Customer.
• Coordinate AQP deliverables: control plans, capability studies, layouts, gage design/R&R, PFMEA/DFMEA.
• Utilize all applicable Customer-specific systems.
• Ensure statistical methods are used throughout Product and Process Development and deployed into the Control Plan.
• Complete all other Customer-specific Advanced Quality Planning requirements.
• Assist SDT members to ensure SDT deliverables are met on time.
• Participate in environmental activities and environmental impact evaluation.
• Ensure activities comply with Environmental law and requirements.
• Volunteer for safety meetings and act promptly on safety issues.
• Maintain JSA/Risk assessment and environmental aspects for routine and non-routine work.
• Lead the abnormality process for internal–external quality issues.

Job description

• Participate in Safety Sign-Offs, Design Reviews, Program Reviews, and Phase Exit Reviews.
• Execute the elements of Supplier Advanced Quality Planning including the following elements; SAQP kick-off meeting, Supplier Process Sign-Off, review and approval of Supplier PPAP.
• Develop the Prototype, Pre-production, and Production Control Plans.
• Develop the Measurement System Analysis Plan for the program, Responsible to ensure that Gage studies (R&R, Bias, Linearity, and Stability) are conducted on all gaging used on the program and that appropriate corrective actions are taken to improve Gage R&R where data indicates.
• Responsible for implementation of the Manufacturing Quality Systems for the prototype and pre-production builds (e.g. Incoming Inspection Instructions, Containment Instructions, etc,) as defined in BOS and/or specified on the Product Control Plan.
• Responsible for completion of the inspection reports report for components that are used for the prototype and pre-production builds.
• Perform capability studies and document the results for all program special characteristics, and ensure that Customer and internal requirements are met (or a written Customer deviation is obtained)
• Responsible for the color/appearance approval process from pre-grain to PPAP, including proper Customer submission paperwork, by either performing the required activities directly or coordinating the completion of these activities.
• Responsible to coordinate the preparation and on-time delivery of PPAP packages for submission and approval by the Customer.
• Responsible to coordinate the preparation and on time delivery of supplier AQP deliverables including; Control Plans, Capability Plans, Capability Studies, Part Layouts, Gage design, Gage R&R, PFMEA, DFMEA (if applicable)
• Utilize all applicable Customer-specific systems.
• Ensure that appropriate statistical methods are utilized throughout the Product and Process Development process and deployed into the Control Plan.
• Responsible for completion of all other Customer-specific Advanced Quality Planning requirements.
• Responsible to assist other SDT members to assure all SDT deliverables are met on time, to the appropriate level of detail. (PPE) Correctly and appropriately.
• Participate and support in environment activities, such as: Environmental Aspect & Impact evaluation.
• Ensure that all activities accordance with Environmental legal & requirements.
• Voluntary to join safety meeting and immediate action once safety issue present in workplace.
• All JSA/Risk assessment, PEIL, environmental aspect up to date for routine, non-routine.
• Responsible to lead the abnormality process of internal – external the quality issue.