Lead Supplier Industrialization Engineer, GD&T-Tooling Management

We are currently seeking an innovative Lead. Supplier Industrialization Engineer. GD&T-Tooling Management (Program Manager, Advanced Product Quality (APQ)) to contribute, promote and drive best-in-class product quality at the various stages of product development process. This is a high-performance role that would have significant visibility to both within and outside the organization, and will require technical expertise, passion, interpersonal skills to collaborate and influence outcomes, work through complexity and fast- paced environment, and establishing credibility with peers and senior management.

To ensure success, you should have deep professional technical experience implementing quality and reliability best practices, innovations and ensure validation. You will combine your expertise to advance product excellence and innovation. Candidates will be expected to demonstrate excellence in their respective fields, to possess the ability to lead teams and to strive for product validation within a fast-paced environment. The successful candidate exhibits a can-do attitude and approaches their work with vigor and determination and will have a strong track record of quality program management, preferably in an automotive or parallel industry environment.

You Will:

• Includes both Supplier Quality Assurance and Supplier Quality Development. Includes supplier qualifications, action plans, audits, performance monitoring, and assisting key suppliers towards industrial standards of excellence for casting and stamping environments
• Plan and lead product quality requirement at various product development stages
• Collaborate and lead APQP, DFMEA, DVPR, DFQ/DFM reviews and validation
• Collaborate with Engineering, Manufacturing, Supply Chain to achieve product excellence goals
• Manage and report performance metrics timely to diagnose and prioritize issues
• Contribute ideas and best practices to successful quality gates
• Facilitate and lead quality resolutions and innovations and continual improvements
• Document processes and compliance with ISO9001, AIAG/ IATF16949, ISO26262 industry standards
• Support Leading the development of dimensional validation process for different systems and subsystems within a given architecture
• Support creating measurement point routines to validate critical requirements developed on drawings
• Analyze data from supplier and assembly plant builds to assess capability of meeting dimensional requirements required to complete build
• Support assembly plant and manufacturing on all build issue resolution projects and quality improvement projects
• Maintain a list of critical product and process characteristics and controlling their geometry in vehicle builds to produce quality assemblies
• Support gauging methods and perform data analysis to identify special and common cause problems. (3DCS)
• Support with Developing, validating, and incorporating total vehicle Geometric Dimensioning & Tolerancing (GD&T) requirements
• Support with design and production of all assembly fixtures used in body shop
• Support manufacturing with assembly line layouts and total vehicle production by providing relative dimensional input, direction, and support
• Track and report on all program dimensional specification requirements and progress towards 100% compliance
• Support in Defining preliminary dimensional control plan including datum’s, drawing requirements, and measurement point routine for part quality definition
• Support in Resolving dimensional specifications not meeting established targets to meet 100% compliance
• Support Dimensional Engineering software capabilities: CM4D, 3DCS, Catia V5-6
• Create 3DCS analysis virtual models for BIW, exterior, and interior trim to simulate assembly process and predict main sources of variation of the system
• Drive recommendations to reduce variation and balance requirements
• Assist in development and implementation of training material within the assembly plant to inform production team members of quality control opportunities root causing dimensional issues and works with cross-functional teams to recommend and evaluate corrective actions
• Documenting quality issues and driving process standardization through World class manufacturing methodologies. Interior and exterior dimensional validation, documenting and root cause findings from build issues and part variation
• Leading cross functional teams through root cause analysis, launch support and interfacing with suppliers to lead the drive on corrective actions
• Prepare dimensional improvement projects and coordinate with other groups if needed to drive to completion during non-productive hours
• Support Metrology experience with Scanner Romer Arm, CMM Statistical problem-solving techniques; Statistical process control - 6Sigma
• Support Quality Metrology Technician will ensure that all products meet customer and company requirements by performing inspections of individual components, stampings, castings, and supplier parts
• Support multiple projects, utilizing various skill sets in a highly dynamic and diverse working environment
• Programming and operation of stationary measurement equipment to support monitoring of production processes, commissioning of new production and root cause activities
• Liaise with Production, Engineering and Manufacturing teams
• Support manufacturing processes for application in measurement study requirements
• Support and Apply measurement best practices for special investigations
• Support datum scheme requirements and applications along with GD&T
• Utilize metrology equipment to collect tactile and scan data and output detailed reports to communicate key findings
• Support Body-In-White Data Analyzer/Vision Monitoring system used to solve dimensional variation problems
• Support manufacturing techniques in a stamping manufacturing environment with extensive aluminum Class A, BIW and Closures parts. Equipment, tooling, metal stamping, assembly, and testing. (Tandem, progressive, blanking, and transfer stamping)
• Assist with design and design modifications for tooling, fixtures, and gauges
• Support design and build without engineering plans/blueprints - specify tooling and materials needed for jobs
• Support Plan, lay out and support all bench and machine operations to construct, alter and repair tools, fixtures, gauges, etc.
• Support difficult machining operations requiring complicated set-ups involving the improvising of tooling and machines for adaptations beyond the normal range and capacities of available equipment
• Verify dimensions, alignments, and clearances of finished parts for conformance to specifications, using measuring instruments such as calipers, gauge blocks, micrometers, and dial indicators
• Perform complicated repairs and/or major adjustments to tooling and fixturing to produce parts to desired specifications
• GD&T fixture review and buy off
• Participate in Supplier Industrialization activities for Die and fixturing improvements
  
  

You Bring:

• Bachelor’s degree in technical – Mechanical Engineering, Industrial Engineering or Electrical Engineering
• Technical Master’s degree preferred
• Minimum 8 years of advanced product quality (APQP) experience in technical program management
• Automotive industry experience preferred around Stamping and Casting disciplines/departments
• Advanced knowledge of the full life cycle of product quality gates during product development
• Practical Problem Solving, DFMEA, DFM, APQP, Lean Six Sigma and ASQ CQA Certifications
• Exceptional timely communication and interpersonal skills