Quality Plant Engineering Leader - PSP

at  Altair Engineering

JOB SUMMARY:

Our client in Brampton, ON is looking for a Quality Plant Engineering Leader - PSP. This is a contract position.

QPEL Quality Plant Engineering Lead.
Job Description:
Principle Relationships

Main working relationships:

• Daily Operational Production meetings with Quality Plant Engineering Manager and his team, control tower to deal with quality issues / production.
• Weekly meetings with FQM manager.
• Weekly meetings with Supplier Quality Development, ENG/CCLP Cross Car Line & Project, MFG/VPE/GAPE to coordinate the progress of the 7 diamonds.
• Convening of the site director’s / quality managers of the most failing supplier sites. Meetings with suppliers.

Operational Context:

• The holder of this function must contribute to improving the quality level of new and customer vehicles in a context of ever more ambitious quality objectives.
• The position requires great responsiveness in order to meet quality and production requirements.
• Autonomous in the decision (or to lead if necessary) to modify the automotive product or the process to guarantee the quality of the vehicles.
• Support the Quality Plant Engineering Manager to make decision to hold vehicles and market vehicles.
• Autonomous in the convocation and animation of suppliers, represents Company with suppliers.
• As soon as possible in order to avoid increasing outstanding rework area (issues on retouching costs and customer delivery time).

Responsibilities include but are not limited to:

• Define containment actions to apply for customer protection (including supplier Issues).
• Do vehicle issue diagnosis and root cause analysis.
• Ensure that his team carries out the pre-analysis activities on time.
• Do risk assessments and lead corrective action plans.
• Guarantee the product – process maturity of the components of his perimeter management of serial life (windows change management).
• Propose alternative product solution in case of issues (as shortage) to avoid to stop mass production in the plant.
• Participate in Quality ENG tech clubs.
• Implementation of good idea and standards (Read Across).
• Ensure the right application in the plant of the technical requirements and the meta function “métiers” standards of his perimeter.
• Ensure that the skills of his team is at the right level.
• Ensure the management activities of his team (daily management control meeting).
• Ensure that his team is working in safety.
• Lead quality KPI management to achieve quality objectives, driving improvement/corrective actions and escalation.
• Resolution of systemic/chronic or major quality issues (Top Warranty, Recalls, …).
• Technical support Yard Holds / Product Related Issues (PRI’s) technical referent inside the PRI.
• Set-up / On-going Controls for Process / product Standards for Vehicle & System Functional Objectives (i.e. ADAS, BSR, FEA).