SITE QUALITY ENGINEER

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Date: Feb 20, 2025

Location: Chattanooga-Tennessee, US

Company: OP Mobility

Hungry for challenges? Join a group with innovation at its heart and contribute to the automotive revolution!

OPmobility is a world-leading provider of innovative solutions for a unique, safer and more sustainable mobility experience. Innovation-driven since its creation, the Group develops and produces intelligent exterior systems, customized complex modules, lighting systems, clean energy systems and electrification solutions for all mobility companies. With a €11.4 billion economic revenue in 2023, a global network of 152 plants and 40 R&D centers, OPmobility relies on its 40,300 employees to meet the challenges of transforming mobility.

By adding intelligent functions, lighting & sensors etc and by extending the scope of what is possible in terms of design, OPmobility is making cars safer, smarter and more stylish. Body panels are now packed with technologies that improve the driver experience, safety and vehicle appearance. The result? An elegant car that will, in time, be made largely from bio-sourced or recycled materials.

Our ambition? Provide automakers with cutting-edge equipment and solutions to develop tomorrow’s clean and connected car.

MISSION:

  • Manages issues and problem solving internally and to the customer.
  • Support launch of new products
  • Ensures process control
  • Contributes to continuous improvement
  • Customer ppm, Supplier ppm, IATF16949 adherence, Quality Costs, Green (non-event) launches, Budgeted hours adherence

 

 ACTIVITIES:

 

1.0 Quality Problem Solving

  • Ensures that for every quality incident, the right quality tools are applied by the production personnel (through training, coaching, leading). Root cause analysis, action planning, application of containment measures, e.g. quality wall or controlled shipping
  • Is responsible to define and release rework instructions and their application.
  • Where necessary defines a Problem Alert for critical internal and external issues.
  • Participates in regular part rejections analysis with the customer for 0km and Warranty.
  • According to the customer requirements or depending on the quality results, sets-up a quality wall, manages (organizes and trains) the quality wall quality inspectors (also third party)
  • Visits the Customer regularly to establish a long term relationship.
  •  Applies and coaches the use of 8D and QRCM in production. Maintains the Customer Quality Fast Response Board and process FMEAs.

 

2.0 New Product Launch

  • Participates with PQL in the development of PFMEA and the control plan
  • Supports the definition of  limit samples together with the project team for new products
  • Participates with the project team in the poka-yoke definition for the new products,
  • Sets-up limit samples and Problem Alerts and organizes training with the production area leaders. Trains the operators together with production area leader.
  • Contributes to, or, leads the initial sample PPAP submission and Customer run at rate together with the Plant Quality manager.
  • Participates and supports MPM during run@rate and during all manufacturing readiness operations
  • Develops together with the manufacturing engineering, CI and HSE, the Standard Work (SPS, SWI) for all production processes.

 

3.0 Process Control (Control Plan Adherence)

  • Check/ Audit that every poka yoke in place is tested by the production team at the start of every shift
  • Check/ Audit that the controls are rigorously respected and escalate in event of non-compliance
  • Updates and follows up the quality production indicators.
  • Participates in the daily area production scrap reviews.
  • Update, file and archive all documents related to his/her activity
  • Takes part through the quality technicians in regular (layered) process audits and 5s audits

 

4.0 Continuous Improvement

  • Participates in the Quality Improvement Roadmap activity- as assigned
  • Leads or participates in working group as required per customers, production or quality manager
  • Contributes to installing preventive actions to avoid internal and customer issues.
  • Actively support the plant training using the AE University modules.
  • Actively lead and support LL and DFQ process
  • Support QRCM process in the plant

 

5.0  People Management

  • Manages the day to day activities of the quality technicians
  • Ensure that the Training path for Quality Technicians is applied.
  • Maintain the Quality Mindset.

 

 

 

COMPETENCES REQUIREMENTS

  • Technical high school
  • Basic quality training internal and external
  • Customer specific requirements for project concerned.
  • FMEA, PPAP and all APQP deliverables
  • Problem solving skills
  • Ethical and professional behavior in front of the Customer

 

 

We are an equal opportunity employer. M/F/D/V

Except where prohibited by state law all offers of employment are conditioned upon successfully passing a drug test.

We participate in the E-Verify Employment Verification Program.

Must be authorized to work in the United States without company sponsorship now or in the future.

 

 

Some of our Outstanding Benefits Effective on Day of Hire:

  • Medical / Dental / Vision plans
  • Paid Holidays
  • Vacation Pay
  • Vehicle Discount Programs
  • Tuition Assistance and Professional Development Programs
  • 401K

 

As a responsible company, Plastic Omnium pays particular attention to diversity and equality within its teams and the Group commits to treat all job applications equally.

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