Quality Engineer

Quality Engineer

This role is categorized as onsite. This means the successful candidate is expected to report to Wentzville, Missouri Assembly Center on a full-time basis.

The Quality Engineer is responsible for developing, testing, and creating quality solutions for medium level changes. Defect analysis resolution and verification for vehicle subsystem quality, and performs design reviews.

Safety

• Follow and reinforce all site safety guidelines
• Maintain safe and professional work spaces per site workplace organization standards
• Participate in safety observation tours as needed
• Urgently resolve safety and ergonomic issues

People

• Develop quality related skills, Red X certification, GMS compliance, built in quality skills assessment completion, and professional society certifications
• Support a cross-training plan for quality engineers to meet plant, quality, SQ objectives
• Complete suggestion plan requirements and complete analysis of incoming suggestions

Quality

• Develop and maintain product quality standards for assigned commodities
• Develop and implement a standardized work task list
• Champion assigned commodity voice of customer issues
• Participate in the change management process
• Issue and maintain supplier practical problem solving items for identified supplier quality issues
• Communicate emerging issues summary for responsible components
• Support supplier quality yard sweeps and develop inspection method and standards
• Coordinate repair, rework and containment activities for identified spills
• Request temporary work orders from engineers as required to support assembly
• Support the PTR process, documenting product concerns and providing pass/fail feedback. Material/Prod Control Facilitate, QE ME and PCC jointly support PTR activity
• Liaison between engineering, supplier, and manufacturing to ensure quality and reliability
• Identifies and continually improves on processes and procedures
• Voice of the customer within manufacturing process

Responsiveness

• Assure attendance of commodity issues at respective care, GCA, 5F, and other quality reviews (support as required)
• Support DRR/DRL initiatives
• Assigned PRTS issues to be through root cause and ICA to published targets

Cost

• Ensure effective management of salary attendance/vacation/overtime tracking systems
• Drive assigned warranty reduction initiatives
• Document and resolve cost recovery associated with supplier quality issues through eSAP system

Your Skills & Abilities (Required Qualifications)

• 3 years of manufacturing or quality experience
• Highly developed oral and written communications skills
• High level of analytical ability where problems are unusual and difficult
• High level of interpersonal skills to work effectively with others
• Demonstrated technical and professional skills in job-related area required
• Knowledge of manufacturing processes
• Managerial courage
• Customer focus
• Strong decision-making ability
• Ability to build effective teams

What Will Give You a Competitive Edge (Preferred Qualifications)

• Degree in engineering or technical discipline
• 2+ years manufacturing experience
• 2+ years product engineering experience
• Team management experience
• Red X Technical Problem Solving Journeyman or higher certification
• Body Dimensional, GD&T, and Part Data Analysis capability

This job is not eligible for relocation benefits. Any relocation costs would be the responsibility of the selected candidate.

GM DOES NOT PROVIDE IMMIGRATION-RELATED SPONSORSHIP FOR THIS ROLE. DO NOT APPLY FOR THIS ROLE IF YOU WILL NEED GM IMMIGRATION SPONSORSHIP NOW OR IN THE FUTURE. THIS INCLUDES DIRECT COMPANY SPONSORSHIP, ENTRY OF GM AS THE IMMIGRATION EMPLOYER OF RECORD ON A GOVERNMENT FORM, AND ANY WORK AUTHORIZATION REQUIRING A WRITTEN SUBMISSION OR OTHER IMMIGRATION SUPPORT FROM THE COMPANY (e.g., H-1B, OPT, STEM OPT, CPT, TN, J-1, etc.)