Lead Quality Engineer

About the Role

Dauch is looking for a Lead Quality Engineer to join our Detroit Business Office team. The Lead Quality Engineer coordinates control plans, inspection systems, and action plans to achieve expected results. Leads, mentors and develops team members to promote quality awareness and implement quality programs and initiatives. Ensures the execution of non-conformances, containment, and corrective actions and metrics. This candidate would serve as a subject matter expert who can facilitate or lead training on quality tools.

Responsibilities

• Prepare quality improvement team members by identifying training needs; training employees in analytical, problem-solving, communication, and presentation skills.
• Resolve quality issues by identifying problems; examining solution options; implementing action plans; providing resources.
• Recommend quality policies by identifying problems; studying standards; evaluating quality outcomes.
• Promote interest in quality improvement efforts by publicizing project results.
• Recognize improvements by developing rewards.
• Advise management by summarizing data; preparing reports; explaining proposals; counseling managers.
• Improve quality improvement job knowledge by attending educational workshops; reviewing professional publications; establishing personal networks; benchmarking state-of-the-art practices; participating in professional societies.
• Contribute to quality improvement and organization success by welcoming related, different, and new requests; helping others accomplish job results.
• Work with customer Automotive OEM plants to provide technical assistance and support for emerging quality issues.
• Perform teardown analysis and structured problem solving for warranty returned driveline products.
• Conduct follow up on root cause analysis and corrective actions for these warranty returns and formal customer quality complaints.
• Conduct layered process audits and troubleshooting quality issues and concerns line side.
• Apply customer specific quality requirements to Automotive OEM's.
• Apply and support quality systems requirements to include IATF 16949 for internally and for external customers through auditing.
• Attend program review meetings and provide support for launch activities utilizing FMEA, APQP & PPAP.
• Ability to travel 25%-50% as needed.
• All other duties as assigned.

Requirements & Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Mechanical Engineering, or similar related field.
• 5+ years' experience working in the automotive industry.
• Experience with IATF 16949, FMEA, APQP, PPAP, MSA, GD&T and SPC.

About Dauch

Dauch Corporation is a premier Driveline and Metal Forming supplier serving the global automotive industry with a powertrain-agnostic product portfolio that supports electric, hybrid, and internal combustion vehicles. The company is headquartered in Detroit, MI, with operations that span 24 countries and more than 175 locations. Formed through the acquisition of Dowlais Group plc and its subsidiaries - GKN Automotive and GKN Powder Metallurgy, Dauch unites deep engineering roots with global manufacturing capabilities and an entrepreneurial spirit to move mobility forward. Visit www.dauch.com to learn more.