Quality Engineer INGLÈS INDISPENSABLE

Job description:

1. Position Summary

The Quality Engineer is responsible for leading and executing inspection activities for product processes, ensuring compliance with engineering drawings, customer specifications, and quality system requirements.

This role plays a critical part in maintaining compliance with ISO 9001 and IATF 16949, preventing quality escapes, and supporting continuous improvement initiatives within a high-volume production environment.

2. Key Responsibilities

A. Incoming quality Control

• Review and inspect incoming steel coils, sheets, and outsourced stamped components
• Verify material certifications (mill certificates), coating specifications, and supplier documentation
• Conduct dimensional and surface inspections
• Issue NCRs for nonconforming materials and coordinate supplier corrective actions
• Support Supplier Quality and Purchasing in supplier performance evaluation

B. In-Process Quality Control

• Perform first-piece approval and setup verification for product
• Conduct patrol inspections to monitor critical dimensions, burr condition, flatness, hole position, and forming quality
• Verify die condition, tool wear, and abnormal product defects (cracks, splits, wrinkles, spring-back issues)
• Ensure compliance with control plans and PFMEA requirements
• Stop production when major quality risks are identified
• Lead containment activities for in-process nonconformities

C. Outgoing / Final Inspection

• Conduct final dimensional and visual inspection of stamped parts
• Verify part marking, labeling, traceability, and packaging
• Review inspection reports prior to shipment release
• Approve or reject lots based on sampling plans and customer requirements
• Prevent shipment of nonconforming products

3. Advanced Inspection & Technical

Responsibilities

• Interpret complex engineering drawings, GD&T, and tolerance stack-ups
• Perform measurement using calipers, micrometers, height gauges, profile projectors, surface plates, and CMM (if applicable)
• Validate special characteristics (SC/CC) and capability (Cp, Cpk) results
• Participate in MSA (GR&R) studies
• PAP submissions (ISIR, layout inspection, dimensional reports)
• Be responsible for 8D problem-solving and root cause analysis

4. Quality System & Compliance

• Ensure compliance with ISO 9001 and IATF 16949 requirements
• Maintain accurate inspection records and traceability documentation
• Support internal audits, customer audits, and certification audits
• Ensure proper segregation and identification of nonconforming materials

5. Leadership Responsibilities

• Guide and mentor junior inspectors
• Train operators on basic quality awareness and defect identification
• Support continuous improvement and scrap reduction initiatives
• Act as quality representative during production shift

6. Authority

• Authority to stop production for serious quality concerns
• Authority to reject materials, WIP, and finished goods
• Authority to initiate containment and corrective action requests
• Authority to escalate critical issues to management

7. Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)

• Reduction of customer complaints and quality escapes
• First-pass yield improvement
• Scrap and rework reduction
• On-time completion of inspection and report
• Audit findings related to product quality

8. Qualifications

Education:

Diploma in Mechanical Engineering / Manufacturing Technology (preferred)

Experience:

Minimum 5 years in product or sheet metal manufacturing quality

Experience in automotive industry preferred

Technical Skills:

Strong understanding of product processes and tooling

Proficient in reading GD&T drawings

Knowledge of PFMEA, Control Plan, SPC

Familiar with PPAP requirements

Experience with CMM is an advantage