Onsite Automotive Quality Engineer - Root Cause Solver

Malone Workforce Solutions; Louisville (KY); On-site; USD 70,000 - 95,000; Full time

Job summary

Malone Workforce Solutions partners with an automotive client in the Louisville area to hire a Quality Engineer. This on-site role supports customer requirements and product quality across the plant floor, with emphasis on PPAP, PFMEA, Control Plan, and MSA.

The candidate will interact with all levels of personnel to ensure quality goals are met. Bachelor's degree required with 3+ years in automotive quality, strong problem-solving skills, and experience on the production floor.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree is required.
• 3+ years of production-based quality engineering experience within automotive.
• Experience dealing with non-conformances in a production environment.
• Problem solving experience with 8D or 5 Y activities.
• Experience with dimensional control systems (X-R charts, gage studies, Six Sigma).
• Comfortable spending 65% or more of their day on the production floor.

Responsibilities

• Update/maintain the Control Plan for the assigned workflows.
• Primary contact source with customer/supplier representatives, maintain positive communication and relationship, support and attend meetings, reviews and audits.
• Ensure that the quality system is maintained in accordance with the company iOS standards.
• Facilitate problem solving teams and respond to customer discrepancy notices.
• Verify corrective actions and prepare problem solving customer correspondence related to quality concerns or issues.
• Participate in internal and external quality audits, and report to management on quality issues, trends and losses.
• Establish process controls, assist in training of new projects and buy-off on new/modified equipment and processes.
• Participate in workgroups (e.g., FMEA, PSMC, etc.). Support the risk and failure analysis (PFMEA) reviews
• Performs root cause analysis of technical quality problems, with support of across functional team.
• Support quality/dimensional control systems (i.e., X&R charts, gage studies, Six Sigma, dimensional capability studies).
• Strong working knowledge of APQP tools (e.g., Process Flow, PFMEA, Control Plan, PPAP, MSA, SPC, etc.).

Skills

Quality engineering

APQP tools

Root cause analysis

8D/5Y process

Dimensional control

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

PFMEA

Control Plan

PPAP

MSA

Job description

Malone Workforce Solutions partners with an automotive client in the Louisville area to hire a Quality Engineer. This on-site role supports customer requirements and product quality across the plant floor, with emphasis on PPAP, PFMEA, Control Plan, and MSA.

The candidate will interact with all levels of personnel to ensure quality goals are met. Bachelor's degree required with 3+ years in automotive quality, strong problem-solving skills, and experience on the production floor.