Quality Engineer

SUMMARY:
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POSITION INFO:

REQUIREMENTS

• Affirmative Action South African citizen
• National Diploma/ Degree in an Engineering field
• B-Tech in Quality (added advantage)
• Minimum +-5 years relevant automotive manufacturing experience
• Understanding of the vehicle build process and the required quality output thereof e.g. EOL and 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)

REPSONSIBILITIES

To plan, define, and lead all departmental project activities, by ensuring that all units are tracked, processed, audited, reworked and signoff, throughout the various EOL checkpoints and audit 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 root causes and escalating to the causing area to improve the Direct Run Rate.

• Managing and driving all project-related activities for QAVM EOL, during the different phases by ensuring that units are tracked and routed through the correct processes and audited within the agreed timelines
• 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 interdivisional projects meetings, and assist, identify and highlight non-conformities and opportunities for improvements, to streamline or improve processes
• Performing and approving all fitment trials of new and changed product parts, before 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 ECRs and deviations to the team, thereby ensuring that the team is aware and understands the changes and the expectation of quality, when conducting inspection, or DKA audits, to ensure a good sign-off 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 investment requirements, and controlling expenditure within the approved budget and helping to set financial objectives with QAVM EOL Manager