Quality Engineer

About the role

The Quality Engineer supports manufacturing quality at the site, aligning plant strategic goals to Quality requirements. This role executes on improvement objectives consistent with Tenneco’s enterprise-wide standards. You will leverage your technical and operational knowledge in manufacturing quality control systems to ensure Tenneco products meet required customer standards.

Responsibilities

• Maintains necessary records and initiates required actions to minimize the long range, overall quality costs of the organization in the interest of maximizing profit.
• Covers in-process and final inspection, dimensions, appearance, and proper packaging of parts to assure quality parts at a minimum cost.
• Completes at the required intervals all audits including layered process audits.
• Reviews scrap and repair work to pinpoint problems and recommend corrective action to minimize scrap thereby improving plant profit.
• Responds to customer quality concerns and maintains the required customer-vendor relationship.
• Covers visits of customer representatives to our plant. Must be prepared to show conformance to their requirements regarding dimensions, appearance, packaging and labeling.
• Covers the coordination of the training and use of computerized data collection system.
• Conducts and evaluates capability studies on both present and new equipment and processes. Provides documentation for production samples.
• Provides necessary surveillance over sample parts to ensure customer satisfaction at a minimum cost.
• Suggests areas requiring process improvement.
• Actively uses G-8D, FM TIPS, or other customer-required problem-solving tools.
• Maintains familiarity with Quality Management System requirements and works to maintain IATF and all customer certifications.
• This position is authorized to make quality calls on non-conforming product up to and including stopping production to protect the customer.
• Serves as a team member when required and represents the Quality function (on teams such as APQP, Quality Systems audits, new business opportunities, etc.).
• Serves as Quality representative on product launch teams.
• Prepares PPAP, PSO, and other quality documentation for product launches.
• Acts as a liaison to customer.
• Maintains records of customer quality concerns and PPM level for both OE and Aftermarket accounts.
• Conducts and provides direction on Gage R & R studies.
• Actively engages with operations in Poke-Yoke implementation and verification activity on the production lines.
• Maintains customer portals as necessary.
• Performs other duties as required.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent experience.
• Min 3-5 years of experience in Quality Engineering function within a manufacturing environment. Experience in a Tier 1 automotive supplier environment preferred.
• Knowledge of Quality Systems (FMEAs, PPaPs, IATF, Ford Q1, DCX, GM, APQP, MSA, etc.)
• Gage R&R and Calibration experience a plus.
• Communication skills both verbal and written
• Problem Solving accumen