Advanced Quality Engineer

Advanced Quality Engineer

What can you expect? Adient (NYSE: ADNT) is a global leader in automotive seating. With 70,000+ employees in 29 countries, Adient operates more than 200 manufacturing/assembly plants worldwide. We produce and deliver automotive seating for all major OEMs. From complete seating systems to individual foam, trim and metal components, our expertise spans every step of the automotive seat-making process. Our integrated, in-house skills allow us to take our products from research and design to engineering and manufacturing — and into millions of vehicles every year.

What will your responsibilities be?

• To ensure that all Advanced Quality Requirements are met for New Model Launches as per the Adient "PLUS" (Product Launch System) including: - Ensuring Control Plans are prepared to meet Prototype, Pre-Production and Production requirements
• Completion of Appearance Manual to relevant Customer Standards
• Ensuring all gauging is validated and verified for production usage
• Ensuring all relevant Measurement and Capability data is conducted and data evaluated
• Ensuring IMDS compliance across all BOM items
• Conducting all Supplier APQP activities necessary in order to achieve Supplier PSW Approval
• Ensure Suppliers are conducting necessary DVP&R activities as part of PPAP
• Ensuring "Grain Go" and "Colour Harmony / AAR" events are held with the customer / supplier for approval of relevant components.
• Obtaining Supplier PPAP Approval
• Working with all necessary Adient Departments in order to generate the contents of the Customer PPAP
• Conducting all necessary communication with Customer in order to obtain Customer PSW Approval

To be part of the Simultaneous Development Team (SDT) and be responsible for communication of all Quality deliverables to this SDT.

Ensure all Customer documentation requirements for each Build Phase is developed and actioned – liaising with JIT Management for obtaining relevant JIT resource to meet this requirement.

Full support within JIT Plant during each New Model build phase and, in conjunction with JIT Plant Quality Manager, ensuring that all Quality deliverables are achieved.

Conducting Supplier Visits in order to determine status against APQP deliverables and to ensure that Supplier processes are approved to meet Adient expectations.

Ensuring that Adient CCSC is conducted to ensure that ALL Critical Characteristics (CC) are fully controlled within JIT facility – from definition of CC's as per DFMEA and Drawing through to Poka Yoke verification within the Production facility.

Assure that customer and internally identified quality issues are resolved using the Adient problem solving methods (8D Report, Problem Solving Document "PSD", PCAD, Kepner-Tregoe, etc.)

Ensure that all Quality activities are performed in accordance with the latest Adient BOS, IATF16949 and Specific Customer Requirements.

To present Quality Project status at both Internal Launch Readiness Reviews (LRR's) and External Customer Reviews.

Which qualifications are we looking for in potential employees?

• BSc / BEng. degree is required or equivalent experience
• Specific education and training in Quality disciplines including minimum IATF16949,
• Continuous Improvement, APQP, PPAP, FMEA, Control plans, DOE and SPC
• Minimum 4 years in the Automotive Industry
• Minimum 2 years in Quality area
• Knowledge of the AIAG Quality Manuals (APQP, PPAP, MSA, FMEA etc)
• Manufacturing Quality system experience and customer communication activities
• Certification in Quality Engineering a plus.
• Lead or Internal auditor training to IATF16949 (TS16949) desirable
• Fluent English
• Willingness to travel

Adient is committed to equal employment opportunity, diversity and inclusion in the workplace. As a true global company, our leaders and employees come from various cultures across the world. Our diversity is a source of inspiration enabling us to achieve our goals and build an inclusive company culture.

We are looking forward to receiving your application including your earliest availability date. If you have additional questions, please do not hesitate to contact Kristián Psotný on +421257271162.

Primary Location

Sunderland