Quality Engineer

Brief Role Description

To plan, define, and lead all departmental project activities, by ensuring that all units are tracked, processed, audited, reworked and signoff, throughout the various End Of Line checkpoints and audits areas, within the prescribed project timelines, enabling a good quality product and effortless management signoff process. Drive product improvements based on top faults detected by investigating route causes and escalating to the causing area to improve the Direct Run Rate.

• Identifying and understanding all new product and process part changes for MY and New model introduction, and presenting to team, for ease of understanding, and inspection, thereby enabling a good sign off product.
• Representing QAVM EOL at all inter divisional projects meetings, and assist, identify and highlight non-conformities and opportunities for improvements, in order to streamline or improve processes.
• Performing and approving all fitment trails of new and changed product parts, prior to introduction with responsible departments, to ensure that parts conform to the required quality specifications, and the desired quality standards are achieved.
• Preparing and presenting project units to management, with the knowledge and background of each unit, and with the relevant information and documentation, to ensure units conform to the required quality acceptant standard, for management signoff.
• Providing information of ECR’s and deviations to the team, thereby ensuring that the team is aware and understands the changes and the expectation of quality, when con-ducting inspection, or DKA audits, to ensure a good signoff quality product.
• Escalating the process when quality requirements are not met, to ensure that early preventative actions are taken by the responsible stakeholders, thereby ensuring deadlines are met. (Thorough problem investigation and presentation on a management level)
• Generating project investments requirements, and control expenditure within the approved budget and help to set financial objectives with QAVM EOL Manager.

Qualification requirements and Experience needed

• National Diploma/Degree in an Engineering field, B-Tech in Quality Management is an added advantage
• Understanding of the vehicle build process and the required quality output thereof. eg, EOL & Assembly)
• In-depth knowledge of vehicle release processes
• Knowledge of vehicle components and systems.
• Working knowledge of the equipment, fixtures and tools used in the shop.
• Good computer skills (MS office package, SharePoint and Auto Group systems)
• Minimum +-5 years relevant automotive manufacturing experience