QUALITY ENGINEER

Responsibilities

• Quality Systems, Compliance & Audits: Ensure full compliance with IATF 16949, ISO 9001, ISO 14001, and customer-specific requirements. Lead internal and external audits (IATF, customer, regulatory) and close findings with sustainable actions. Maintain quality manuals, SOPs, Control Plans, PFMEA, inspection standards, traceability, and document control.

• NPI / APQP / PPAP Ownership: Lead APQP from concept → DV → PV → PPAP → SOP. Approve design validation (DV) and production validation (PV) plans including durability, thermal, dielectric, vibration/NVH, and EOL performance. Oversee PPAP submission: PSW, DFMEA/PFMEA, Control Plans, MSA, SPC, Run@Rate, and capability (Cp/Cpk). Validate process readiness before SOP (tools, gages, measurement systems, automation, inspection plans).

• In-Process Quality & Plant Performance: Own FPY, PPM, scrap, rework, and OEE-quality metrics for stator, rotor, and final assembly lines. Ensure robust Control Plan deployment, gage calibration, SPC on CTQs (hairpin welds, insulation integrity, press fits, magnet placement). Monitor and improve EOL test signatures: electrical performance, torque ripple, partial discharge, hipot, run-in vibration/noise. Lead Layered Process Audits (LPA), gemba walks, and containment for non-conformance issues.

• Supplier Quality Management (SQE): Manage supplier quality for magnets, laminations, copper, machined parts, castings, adhesives/resins, sensors, and electronics. Conduct supplier audits (VDA 6.3 preferred), approve PPAPs, ensure incoming quality checks, and track supplier PPM/OTD. Drive supplier corrective actions (8D), dual-sourcing risk plans, and cost-of-poor-quality reduction.