Plant Quality Engineer

Richiesto:
Bachelor's degree or higher in the fields of Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering or Mechanical Engineering Technology from an accredited university Sede: San Piero in Bagno

Principle Relationships

• Daily Operational Production meetings with Quality Operation Manager to deal with quality issues / production • Weekly meetings with Central Manufacturing Quality, to monitor the achievement of site quality objectives • Weekly meeting with Current Product Management team (Product Quality, AMS, Product Support, Engineering, Manufacturing, ecc) to discuss about field issues

Operational Context

Plant Quality Engineer:

• The holder of this function must contribute to improving the quality level of Sampierana Products in the context of ever more ambitious quality objectives.
• The position requires great responsiveness to meet quality and production requirements.
• Autonomous but not independent in the decision to propose modifications in the product or the process to guarantee the quality of the units produced
• Technical support during yard holds, due to non-compliant vehicles that could lead to customer compliants or to recall campaigns.
• Technical support to avoid increasing outstanding rework area (issues on rework costs and customer delivery time).
• Represent Sampierana during the meetings with suppliers.

Deliverables

Plant Quality Engineer:

• Represent “Voice of the Customer” within the Sampierana Plants
• Support external quality Key Performance Indicators (KPI) management for achieving targets, driving improvement/corrective actions and escalation
• Review warranty claims and DAR/PDI Reports daily, maintain issue stratification
• Resolution of systemic/chronic or major quality issues (Top Warranty, Recalls, CPM issues)
• Lead improvement activities in vehicle quality by addressing nonconformity to product quality 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 in order to achieve project/program timings.
• Lead teams to identify issues/risks associated with product designs, processes and applications by utilizing FMEA’s and other risk assessment tools.
• Collaborate with Process Quality, , PPS, Process Engineers to ensure that control plans are implemented and maintained (i.e. Driven by Standards, Process Flow, PFMEA, Control Plans requirements, AM/PM Schedules, measurement/visibility)
• Partner with Process Quality team to properly map issues/defects within PFS/MCV to ensure vehicles with defects will not escape the plant and defects are identified, measured (trends) and issues are attacked.
• Protect product design intent and function while assisting with identification and solutions of manufacturing constraints.
• Empowered to escalate product related issues including stopping the line and executing yard holds where needed.
• Perform critical Yard Hold activities to ensure vehicle quality, mitigation of risks and prompt release of units

Principle Activities

• Advancing Customer Quality
• Analyze parts returned from field incidents (warranty claims, country incident reports).
• Propose and implement, with the plant and supplier, the ICA (Interim Containment Action) within the timeframe.
• Document problem solving and define the action plan to eradicate root causes.
• Ensure effectiveness of actions implemented (clean point follow up) and inform all the counterparts concerned.
• Provide technical assistance and participate in crisis meetings.
• Support convergence of quality KPI (XPDI – 1MIS - 3MIS).
• Ensure the landing of Serial Life Windows & evolutions/events Product including cost savings
• Prepare for industrialization from Quality side.
• Issue derogations for parts considered not full PPAP approved but saleable.
• Monitoring the assembly of PRS to Batch Method.
• Problem solving: Identify the root cause, propose containment and definitive solutions, BP implementation follow up, and inform all counterparts concerned.
• Support the modernization (including SW) standard. Quality assessment of parts during pre-production phases.
• Support the plant (on his/her perimeter) in the safety of production
• Analyze the DAR results: Understand the defects and confirm its attribution
• Problem solving: Identify the root cause, propose immediate protective measures and definitive solutions (together with supplier and manufacturing team), Best Pratices implementation follow up, and inform all counterparts concerned.
• Propose design evolutions to ENG Team for the design issues
• Participate in local and cross-cutting crisis meetings.
• Hand over of the quality responsibility from launch project and serial life.
• Be the guarantor of the robustness of the plant monitoring plan
• Relay and up-date the monitoring plan in the plant
• Make Layered Process Audit (LPA) on workstations identified as sensitive in the flow
• Contributing to the progress of the ENG Team
• Enable the link between Plant and Central ENG Team.

Position Requirements

• Bachelor's degree or higher in the fields of Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering or Mechanical Engineering Technology from an accredited university (other Engineering degrees, in combination with relevant experience may be considered)
• Well versed in Microsoft applications
• Previous Manufacturing and/or Quality experience within a vehicle/Component assembly plant

Competencies

• Ability to perform data analysis in order to identify top issues, summarize trends, distinctions, and effectiveness of corrective actions and continuous improvement activities
• Effective presentation/public speaking skills (comfortable presenting to all levels of the organization from hourly employees to senior management)
• Ability to collect and synthesize data into information and communicate clearly to all levels of management
• Experience with problem solving tools
• Ability to work independently and in proactive way

Preferred Requirements

• Previous experience in resolving Off Road Vehicles (e.g. Construction Equipment or Agriculture) issues including root cause, repairs, etc...
• Previous Manufacturing and/or Quality experience within a vehicle/Component assembly plant
• Advanced Degree
• Reactive Green Belt / Black Belt
• ISO 9001 requirements knowledge
• IA Tools knowledge and familiarity