Automotive Quality Engineer: Root Cause & CI

Aegis Manufacturing & Engineering; Greencastle (IN); On-site; USD 52,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

100Hires, Inc. seeks a Quality Assurance professional to maintain the QMS under IATF 16949 and manage internal audit schedules and liaison tasks. The role supports QA documentation for New Model Launches up to half of the time and leads cross-functional continuous improvement and root cause analysis teams.

You will work on investigations, corrective actions, and customer complaint responses, ensuring compliance with quality requirements and fostering process improvements across production.

Qualifications

• Manufacturing quality experience.
• Experience investigating quality problems.
• Strong corrective-action experience.
• Experience with 8D, 5 Why, and/or Fishbone.
• Experience dealing with customer complaints.
• Comfortable working directly with production.
• Quality inspection experience.
• Continuous improvement experience.
• Experience with APQP, PPAP, PFMEA, Control Plans, etc.
• Proficient in Quality tools and root-cause analysis.

Responsibilities

• Investigate the problem — determine what is wrong.
• Find the root cause — use 5 Why and Fishbone analysis.
• Determine the corrective action — implement changes to prevent recurrence.
• Work with production to implement the fix.
• Verify the fix — ensure the problem does not persist.
• Document everything using 8D or similar process for clear communication.

Skills

Manufacturing QA

Root Cause Analysis

8D problem solving

5 Why analysis

Fishbone diagram

CPQA/Corrective action

Customer complaints handling

Production liaison

Quality Inspection

Continuous Improvement

APQP/PPAP/PFMEA/Control Plans

Quality documentation

Tools

MS Office

PFMEA

Control Plans

PPAP

APQP

Job description

100Hires, Inc. seeks a Quality Assurance professional to maintain the QMS under IATF 16949 and manage internal audit schedules and liaison tasks. The role supports QA documentation for New Model Launches up to half of the time and leads cross-functional continuous improvement and root cause analysis teams.

You will work on investigations, corrective actions, and customer complaint responses, ensuring compliance with quality requirements and fostering process improvements across production.