Manufacturing Quality Engineer

Insight Global; Cincinnati (OH); On-site; USD 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

Insight Global in Cincinnati, OH is seeking a Quality Assurance professional to ensure the highest quality in mass production brake systems and components. You will engage with customers and suppliers to validate product quality across automotive programs and lead problem analysis for continuous improvement.

Role requires 3+ years with automotive OEMs, strong Excel skills, and experience with PCR/EQPR/SQIDS/SWCS/SKIP/SPIMS. Collaboration with internal teams and suppliers is essential.

Qualifications

• 3+ years experience with automotive OEMs in quality assurance.
• Automotive experience with OEMs such as Toyota, Honda, Ford, GM.
• Excel experience – pivot tables, reporting and data tracking.
• Strong communication when working with customers.
• Experience with PCR, EQPR, SQIDS, SWCS, SKIP, SPIMS systems.

Responsibilities

• Ensure high quality mass production brake systems and components.
• Attend customer trial events and evaluations to validate product quality.
• Lead and coordinate new product evaluations with engineers and managers.
• Provide leadership to manufacturing plants for quick detection and resolution of quality issues.
• Maintain and monitor customer portals and systems for program quality status.
• Develop and maintain spreadsheets/databases to track program development and issues.

Skills

Quality assurance

Customer communication

Excel pivot tables

Data tracking

Quality systems knowledge

Tools

SQIDS

EQPR

SWCS

SPIMS

SKIP

Covisint

Job description

Location: Cincinnati, OH 45036 (4 days in office, 1 day remote)

Requirements:

• 3+ years workings with automotive OEMs in quality assurance
• Automotive experience directly supporting OEMS such as Toyota, Honda, Ford, GM, etc.
• Excel experience – pivot tables, reporting and data tracking
• Strong communication working with customers
• Experienced in Process Change Requests (PCR), Quality Status of Problem Report (EQPR), Supplier Quality Information Delivery System (SQIDS), Supplier Warranty Cost Share (SWCS), Supplier Key Indictor of Performance (SKIP), Supplier Preparation Information Management Systems (SPIMS).

Job Description:

This position will work to ensure high quality mass production brake systems and components. This includes the ability to attend customer trial events and evaluations activities to validate the product quality for each automotive program. Furthermore the ability to perform product problem analysis (with the customers and suppliers) is essential to ensure proper component continuous development and improvement. This position will work with internal departments, customers and suppliers to ensure proper component development and continuous improvement. In addition, this position will provide leadership to manufacturing plants for quick detection & resolution of customer quality issues.

• Maintain, track and monitor Customer required websites specifically the Toyota EQPR, SQIDS, SWCS, SKIP, SPIMS, AWS, Covisint systems, as required.
• Serve as the customer’s primary quality contact for all assigned program products being supplied to the customer assembly plants.
• Hold face-to-face communication activities with suppliers and customers to ensure program development.
• Lead and coordinate new product evaluations during customer prototype reviews, new model reviews or pre-production trials with assistance from other engineers, Coordinators and/or Manager.
• Attend customer and supplier build activities to gather information to evaluate the status of the developing program.
• Create appropriate customer and internal documents to support the success of program development.
• Develop and maintain spreadsheets/databases that track program development and/or program issues.
• Ensure all activities are on schedule with via customers own program/project planning tools and via the supplier planning tools. Provide technical support to customer Quality Engineering & Production Engineering departments.
• Develop and perform quality audits to ensure supplier state of readiness with assistance from Senior Engineer and/or Manager.
• Maintain databases to track programs, change request, quality issue status and others as needed
• Knowledge of various quality systems including: APQP, ISO 9000, TS 16949, Shainin RedX, Six Sigma, Tiguchi Method, 5-Why Method, Kepner Tregoe Analysis, etc