Product Quality Engineer

Stellantis NV; Warren (MI); On-site; USD 75,000 - 105,000; Full time

Job summary

Stellantis NV seeks a Plant Quality Engineer (PQE) at the Warren Truck Assembly Plant in Michigan. The PQE will validate product changes, manage quality issues, and lead continuous quality improvements across cross-functional teams on the shop floor.

Responsibilities include collaborating with stakeholders, reviewing warranty/CQI claims, driving actions toward quality targets, and employing FMEA/risk tools to identify issues and risks in designs and processes.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Mechanical or Electrical Engineering or Engineering Technology from an accredited university
• 1+ years of relevant working experience
• Well versed in both Microsoft and Google applications
• Ability to perform data analyses to identify top issues, summarize trends, distinctions, and effectiveness of corrective actions and continuous improvement activities
• Effective presentation/public speaking skills
• Experience with problem solving tools
• Able to demonstrate both coaching and teaching
• Self-motivated and directed
• Ability to thrive in a high intensity environment while working on multiple projects
• A passion for spending time on the shop floor and fully understanding the build process from a 4M1D standpoint

Responsibilities

• Validating product changes, providing technical expertise, and improving outgoing quality that will meet or exceed our customers’ expectations
• With unquestioned integrity and strength of conviction, the PQE responds to manufacturing quality issues and manages all product changes
• Through the usage of advanced problem-solving methods and SPW kaizen methodology, the PQE supports all continuous quality improvement initiatives within the plant
• PQE must work collaboratively with cross-functional manufacturing teams and facilitates consensus and drive action from the main stakeholders
• Support external quality KPI management for achieving targets, driving improvement/corrective actions and escalation
• Review warranty/CQI claims daily, maintain issue stratification and maintain the portion of Warranty Wall responsible for their area
• Lead improvement activities in vehicle quality by addressing nonconformity to product quality targets (SCA, VLO, BSR, and TDF performance driven to assigned targets)
• Support Corporate Quality objectives/deliverables and communicate requirements to all groups involved to ensure goals are achieved
• Collaborate and lead internal and external resources to achieve project/program timing
• Lead teams to identify issues/risks associated with product designs, processes and applications by utilizing FMEA’s and other risk assessment tools

Skills

Data analysis

Public speaking

Problem solving tools

Coaching and teaching

Shop floor understanding (4M1D)

Education

Bachelors in Mechanical Engineering

Bachelors in Electrical Engineering

Engineering Technology degree

Tools

FMEA

Risk assessment tools

Job description

The Plant Quality Engineer (PQE) - Responsible for all aspects of product conformity for their systems / Components at the Warren Truck Assembly Plant.The PQE reports directly to the PQE Lead and will build effective relationships with both salaried andhourly,assembly plant/corporate personnel,in order tocomplete projects within their area of responsibility.

Additional responsibilitiesinclude but are not limited to:

• Validating product changes, providing technicalexpertise, and improving outgoing quality that will meet or exceed our customers’ expectations
• With unquestioned integrity and strength of conviction, the PQE responds to manufacturing quality issues and manages all product changes
• Through the usage of advanced problem-solving methods and SPW kaizenmethodology, the PQE supports all continuous quality improvement initiatives within the plant
• PQE must work collaboratively with cross-functional manufacturing teams andfacilitatesconsensus and drive action from the main stakeholders
• Support external quality Key Performance Indicators (KPI) management for achieving targets, driving improvement/corrective actions and escalation
• Review warranty/Customer Quality Insight (CQI) claims daily,maintainissue stratification andmaintaintheportionof Warranty Wall responsible for their area
• Lead improvement activities in vehicle quality by addressing nonconformity to product quality targets (SCA, VLO, BSR, and TDF performance driven to assigned targets)
• Support Corporate Quality objectives/deliverables and communicate requirements to all groups involved to ensure goals are achieved
• Collaborate and lead internal and external resourcestoachieve project/program timing
• Lead teams toidentifyissues/risks associated with product designs,processesand applications by utilizing FMEA’s and other risk assessment tools

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor\'s degree in the fields of Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering or Mechanical Engineering Technology from an accredited university (other Engineering degrees, in combination with relevant experience)
• 1+ years of relevant working experience
• Well versed in both Microsoft and Google applications
• Ability to perform data analysistoidentifytop issues, summarize trends, distinctions, and effectiveness of corrective actions and continuous improvement activities
• Effective presentation/public speaking skills (comfortablepresentingto all levels of the organization)
• Experience with problem solving tools
• Able todemonstrateboth coaching and teaching
• Self-motivated and directed
• Ability to thrive in a high intensity environment while working on multiple projects
• A passion for spending time on the shop floor and fully understanding the build process from a 4M1D standpoint (man, method, machine, material, and design)

Preferred Qualifications:

• Advanced Degree
• Reactive Green Belt / Black Belt Certification
• Previousexperience in resolving complexissues;including root cause, repairs, etc.
• Previousexperience in Product Engineering and/ or Vehicle Integration / Development at supplier or Tier 1 Automotive Manufacturer
• PreviousManufacturing and/or Quality experience within a vehicle/Component assembly plant