Onsite Quality Engineer - Automotive Production

AAM - American Axle & Manufacturing; Three Rivers (MI); On-site; USD 75,000 - 95,000; Full time

Job summary

Dauch Corporation in Three Rivers, Michigan seeks a Quality Engineer to drive improvements on the shop floor within automotive manufacturing. This is a fully onsite role focused on APQP, SPC, and data-driven problem solving.

You will lead quality investigations, develop sampling plans, analyze data, and report trends, with occasional travel (about 5–10%) as required. Strong collaboration with suppliers and customers and the ability to work overtime as needed.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering or related field required.
• 3–5+ years of quality experience in automotive manufacturing.
• 1+ year of APQP and process audit experience.
• Willingness to travel 5–10% as requested.
• Willingness to work overtime and weekends as requested.

Responsibilities

• Recommends quality improvement parameters by identifying statistical methods relevant to manufacturing processes.
• Researches statistical confidence by identifying sample size and acceptable error rate; determining levels of confidence.
• Analyzes quality data from plant processes or customer indicators.
• Provides feedback to customers based on quality projects (e.g., warranty, APQP, issues, etc.).
• Leads quality investigations and problem solving.
• Researches statistical reliability by using mean time before failure, Weibull distribution, reliability modeling, and tests.
• Develops quality improvement experiments by applying factorial techniques.
• Develops sampling plans by applying attribute, variable, and sequential sampling methods.
• Maintains statistical process controls by applying various charts and distributions.
• Analyzes data by completing hypothesis, normal distribution, and process capability tests.
• Prepares statistical information and reports by collecting, analyzing, and summarizing data and trends.
• Contributes to quality engineering and organization success by welcoming related, different, and new requests; helping others accomplish job results.
• All other duties as assigned.

Skills

Quality engineering

Statistical analysis

Education

Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering or related field

Job description

Dauch Corporation in Three Rivers, Michigan seeks a Quality Engineer to drive improvements on the shop floor within automotive manufacturing. This is a fully onsite role focused on APQP, SPC, and data-driven problem solving.

You will lead quality investigations, develop sampling plans, analyze data, and report trends, with occasional travel (about 5–10%) as required. Strong collaboration with suppliers and customers and the ability to work overtime as needed.