Quality Engineer (Permanent)

Profile Personnel; Gqeberha; On-site; ZAR 500,000 - 700,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading automotive manufacturing company is seeking a qualified project manager to oversee department activities and ensure quality standards throughout project timelines. The ideal candidate must have a National Diploma or Degree in Engineering and at least 5 years of relevant automotive manufacturing experience. Responsibilities include managing project activities, representing QAVM EOL in meetings, and ensuring that all components meet quality specifications. Strong understanding of vehicle processes is essential.

Qualifications

• Minimum 5 years relevant automotive manufacturing experience.
• Proven experience in managing projects within timelines.

Responsibilities

• Lead all departmental project activities and ensure quality signoffs.
• Manage and drive project-related activities during various phases.
• Represent QAVM EOL at inter-divisional project meetings.
• Approve fitment trails of new and changed product parts.
• Generate project investment requirements and control expenditure.

Skills

Understanding of the vehicle build process

In-depth knowledge of vehicle release processes

Knowledge of vehicle components and systems

Working knowledge of the equipment, fixtures and tools

Good computer skills (MS Office, SharePoint)

Education

National Diploma/Degree in Engineering

B-Tech in Quality (added advantage)

Job description

Brief Role Description

To plan, define, and lead all departmental project activities, by ensuring that all units are tracked, processed, audited, reworked and signoff, throughout the various EOL checkpoints and audits areas, within the prescribed project timelines, enabling a good quality product and effortless management signoff process. Drive product improvements based on top faults detected by investigating route causes and escalating to the causing area to improve the Direct Run Rate.

Possible Tasks within this Role

Managing and driving all projects related activities for QAVM EOL, during the different phases by ensuring that units are tracked and routed through the correct processes and audited within the agreed timelines.

Identifying and understanding all new product and process part changes for MY and New model introduction, and presenting to team, for ease of understanding, and inspection, thereby enabling a good sign off product.

Representing QAVM EOL at all inter divisional projects meetings, and assist, identify and highlight non-conformities and opportunities for improvements, in order to streamline or improve processes.

Performing and approving all fitment trails of new and changed product parts, prior to introduction with responsible departments, to ensure that parts conform to the required quality specifications, and the desired quality standards are achieved.

Preparing and presenting project units to management, with the knowledge and background of each unit, and with the relevant information and documentation, to ensure units conform to the required quality acceptant standard, for management signoff.

Providing information of ECR’s and deviations to the team, thereby ensuring that the team is aware and understands the changes and the expectation of quality, when con‑ducting inspection, or DKA audits, to ensure a good signoff quality product.

Escalating the process when quality requirements are not met, to ensure that early preventative actions are taken by the responsible stakeholders, thereby ensuring deadlines are met. (Thorough problem investigation and presentation on a management level)

Generating project investments requirements, and control expenditure within the approved budget and help to set financial objectives with QAVM EOL Manager.

Qualification requirements

National Diploma/Degree in an Engineering field

Experience Needed

Minimum +-5 years relevant automotive manufacturing experience

Essentials

• Understanding of the vehicle build process and the required quality output thereof. e.g., EOL & Assembly
• In-depth knowledge of vehicle release processes
• Knowledge of vehicle components and systems.
• Working knowledge of the equipment, fixtures and tools used in the shop.
• Good computer skills (MS office package, SharePoint and company Group systems)

Added Advantage

B-Tech in Quality

Should you meet the minimum requirements, please forward your updated CV and supporting documents to [e-mail]