Sr NVH Quality Engineer

ZF Group; Gray Court (SC); On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Annual Incentive Plan

Paid Vacation

401k Plan

Health Care Benefits

Paid Holidays

Employee Groups and community outreach

Job summary

ZF Group in Gray Court, SC is seeking a Senior NVH Quality Engineer to support quality standards, analyze manufacturing and acoustic testing, and drive corrective actions to improve product performance and customer satisfaction.

You will partner with internal teams, plants, and technical specialists to resolve quality issues, develop testing methods, and ensure compliance with customer and company requirements.

Qualifications

• 7–8+ years of engineering experience with at least 2 in a quality role.
• NVH engineering experience is required.
• Manufacturing environment experience; automotive preferred.
• Leadership or training capabilities are a plus.

Responsibilities

• Support quality standards, analyze manufacturing and acoustic testing processes.
• Drive corrective actions to improve product performance and customer satisfaction.
• Partner with internal teams, plants, and specialists to resolve quality issues.
• Develop testing methods and ensure compliance with customer and company requirements.
• Interpret drawings, GD&T requirements, and measurement tools for quality evaluations.
• Analyze acoustic data to identify noise sources and transmission paths.

Skills

NVH Engineering

Problem-Solving

Leadership/Training

Education

Six Sigma Green Belt/Black Belt

Tools

Quality Tools

Job description

The role is responsible for supporting quality standards, analyzing manufacturing and acoustic testing processes, and driving corrective actions to improve product performance and customer satisfaction. This position also partners with internal teams, plants, and technical specialists to resolve quality issues, develop testing methods, and ensure compliance with customer and company requirements.

What you can look forward to as a Senior NVH Quality Engineer:

• Support and comply with company corporate principles, quality requirements, and established business goals.
• Monitor manufacturing processes and assess product quality to ensure compliance with customer and company specifications.
• Develop and maintain quality documentation, procedures, risk analyses, audit records, lessons learned, and evidence related to recalls, field returns, complaints, scrap, and rework.
• Interpret engineering drawings, GD&T requirements, and measurement tools to support quality evaluations.
• Analyze acoustic measurements and vehicle testing data to identify noise sources and transmission paths in automatic transmissions.
• Develop correlations between acoustic serial test benches and automatic transmission behavior in vehicles.
• Support noise testing set points, statistical analysis, test-result presentations, warranty investigations, and noise root-cause analysis.
• Drive continuous improvement of acoustic test methods, machine commissioning and acceptance, internal reject Pareto analysis, corrective actions, customer and plant support, and stop-note processing.

Your profile as an NVH Quality Engineer:

• 7–8+ years of engineering experience including at least 2 in a quality-related role.
• NVH engineering experience is required.
• Experience spent in a manufacturing environment is required; automotive industry experience preferred.
• Strong knowledge of problem-solving methodologies and quality tools.
• Recognized advanced problem-solving qualification preferred, such as Six Sigma Green Belt, Six Sigma Black Belt, or Shainin.
• Experience in a leadership or management role, with the ability to train and develop others.

What We Offer:

• A supportive collaborative team environment
• Annual Incentive Plan
• Paid Vacation
• 401k Plan
• Health Care Benefits
• Paid Holidays
• Supportive Employee Groups and community outreach activities