Sr Manager Supplier Quality Engineering, Dimensional Management

We are currently seeking an innovative Sr. Dimensional Manager to contribute, promote and drive best-in-class product quality through dimensional performance 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 his or her 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 Quality Assurance, Supplier Quality, Industrialization Development. Includes supplier qualifications, action plans, audits, performance monitoring, and assisting key suppliers towards industrial standards of excellence for casting and stamping environments.
• Assist in Plant Control Plan development of all platforms to set, then continuously improve dimensional performance for KPIs 6 sigma or better.
• Develop reporting strategies from Suppliers to maintain dimensional performance and have data available for usage of internal teams.
• Plan and lead product dimensional quality requirements at various product development stages taking hand overs from design through floor implementation.
• 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.
• Track and report on all program dimensional specification requirements and progress towards 100% compliance.
• 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.

You bring:

• Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering, Industrial Engineering or Electrical Engineering.
• 7 to 10 years of advanced product quality (APQP) experience in technical program management.
• 3 to 5 years of Tooling, Design, or Dimensional Engineering Manager Experience
• OEM or Vehicle Dimensional Manager Experience required.
• 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.

Be part of something amazing.