Customer Advanced Quality Engineer

Overview

Customer Advanced Quality Engineer responsible for designing quality standards, inspecting materials, equipment, processes and products, and driving quality from new product development through start of production.

What you'll do

• Design quality standards, develop quality control systems and determine corrective actions.
• Review customer quality requirements and generate or support internal quality standards using APQP tools (e.g. PFD, Control Plan).
• Conduct Built in Quality workshops and track improvements until closure with cross-functional teams.
• Understand and interpret customer-specific requirements.
• Participate in project gate reviews and development through the Aptiv Product Development Process.
• Drive new program quality issues (POR, PCR, FTQ, etc.) for improvement.
• Lead Material Review Board meetings on deviations and drive actions to resolve non-conforming cases.
• Manage lessons learnt for each new program and drive their implementation.
• Achieve Production Part Approval from the customer and support Start of Production work, accomplishing flawless launches and PPAP approval.
• Ensure risk mitigation from a quality perspective, including good DFMEA, PFMEA and control plans for new products.
• Work with customers to understand their quality requirements.
• Maintain zero ppm for first production parts on new product launches.
• Drive compliance to the Quality Operating System during product launch.
• Develop error-proofing mechanisms in line with the quality plan and addressing CTQs.
• Manage your time effectively against targets, debug issues with ownership, and emphasize continuous process improvement.
• Adhere to company policies and procedures and work in an agile development environment.

What you'll need

• Degree in Electronics or Mechanical engineering.
• 8 to 12 years of experience.
• Knowledge of APQP process and standards (TS16949, PPAP, FMEA, Quality Plan).
• End-to-end quality representative for new product development from business win to SOP.
• Drive past lessons learnt and their implementation in new products with respective competencies.
• Direct interface with customers for CSR, APQP and PPAP.
• Liaison between Technical Center and product manufacturing location.
• Risk assessment from a quality viewpoint during each stage of the product development cycle.
• Be part of project documentation, e.g. PFD, PFMEA, CP, warranty cost estimation, customer sites tester development lead.
• Lead customer audits during development phases.

Nice to have

• Design background (electrical or mechanical) is good.

Details

• Location: Chennai, India.