Quality Engineer-Extrusion

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As a full service, tier-one automotive and industrial component supplier in the Greater Dayton/Cincinnati area focusing on light weighting of body structures our business is expanding. This year we are building a new facility to support our increasing portfolio of tight-tolerance aluminum extrusion business. With extensive growth planned in the near future, the opportunities are limitless!

 Position Summary:  Play a critical role with a leading manufacture of automotive components at our new Aluminum Center of Excellence ensuring that our products continue to meet the highest standards of quality. Main duties of this position include Developing and maintaining control plans as part of the APQP process including PPAP submission, leading problem solving analysis alongside our operation team, and ensuring customer satisfaction through continuous improvement and customer intimacy strategies.

Essential Job Functions include, but not limited to, the following:

General:

• Develop APQP documentation to support the Product Realization Process in accordance with customer requirements, e.g. FMEA, MSA, SPC, PPAP, etc.

• Maintain required documentation that meets the Shape Corp specifications for Document Control and retrievability.

• Interface with customer personnel and facilitate the resolution of quality issues and concerns.

• Participate in the development and maintenance of formal quality systems, e.g. ISO 9001 & IATF 16949.

• Drive continuous improvement and best practice sharing of our quality systems and processes.

• Facilitate problem-solving of complex issues using advanced quality tools.

• Help onboard and training new team members.

• Provide direction and coaching to less senior team members.

• Identify and train a back-up(s) to manage key tasks when absent.

• Additional functions not specifically outlined in this position description as directed by the leader.

• Approve time and attendance and vacations for direct reports.

• Review and respond to Employee Suggestions via plex.

Launch Quality:

• Plan, support, and implement total quality management in support of zero safe launch findings at pre and post SOP.

• Ensure that appropriate inspection plans and containment plans are in place for the process value stream.

• Confirm product quality through confirmation phase exit.

• Initiate control plans and training for inspection and gage instructions in accordance with Shape and customer specific requirements.

• Develop and control all APQP documents through PPAP approval for new program launches.

• Execute PPAP submission and approval as required for customer initiated product changes.

• Understand and provide interpretation of customer specific requirements.

• Participate in GD&T development through the DFM process.

• Responsible for all aspects of gage procurement, including gage quoting, design approval, and customer approval.

• Responsible for supplier gage design approval, PPAP review and approval.

New Business Pursuit Quality:

• Have high level of GD&T knowledge and application thereof.

• Have high level of knowledge and application of KDCs, SPC, MSA, and AIAG processes.

• Participate in all Process Plan and Tolerance Assessment Reviews.

• Develop Red Pen Fixture Drawings.

• Participate in GD&T development through the DFM process.

• Author measurement plan as part of DFM Plan.

• Ensure that appropriate inspection plans and containment plans are in place for the process value stream.

• Estimate gage costs for all programs considering Shape's and each customer's specifications.

Manufacturing Quality:

• Ensure compliance to process control plan requirements.

• Lead problem solving efforts relating to production quality issues.

• Initiate actions to overcome obstacles as they are encountered and prevent potential quality problems using problem solving tools.

• Initiate interim and containment countermeasures relating to quality issues.

• Design, specifies and implements quality control sampling systems, testing mechanisms, and equipment.

• Serve as a liaison and coordinates activities with external providers as required

Supplier Quality:

• Facilitate activates with external providers related to quality issues.

• Liaison with launch or manufacturing quality when suppliers provide notification of real or potential quality issues.

• Interface with external provider personnel and facilitate the resolution of quality issues and concerns.

• Ensure external provider interim and containment countermeasures relating to quality issues.

• Interface with Shape quality department to facilitate product and system continuous improvement activities with external providers.

• Communicate Shape quality requirements to external providers.

• Provide training and development opportunities to external providers in support of Shape and customer specific requirements.

• Monitor supplier performance and facilitate development plans.

• Perform assessments and audits of external providers according to ISO 9001, IATF 16949 and customer specific requirements.

• Provide input into the selection of external providers.