Vacancy: Plant Quality Engineer

Description

We are one of the world’s largest manufacturers of chrome-plated plastic parts for the automotive, commercial truck and household appliance industries with a manufacturing presence in major world markets including North America, Western and Central Europe and China. 

What You Will Do In Your Role

• Responsible for the internal quality of the injection molding area.
• Responsible for continuous quality improvement.
• Supervised of the quality technicians’ team in the injection molding area.
• Key person in the definition of the internal Injection quality strategy in the medium-long term.
• Responsible for transmitting to the productive area the needs and requirements of external customers at a productive level.
• Management and coordination of the non-conforming product warehouse, planning resources and short-term requirements, ensuring that the defined reaction plan is followed.
• Responsible for transmitting customer QA to the team, coordinating containment actions ensuring their compliance in a commitment date.
• Promote internal training sessions for coordinators, quality technicians and SV at the quality level, internal instructions and procedures, and external audits.
• Develop capacities for the detection of security risks in order to reduce them and avoid fatalities or serious incidents, promoting and encouraging the use of internal tools for risk identification.
• Actively participate in the work teams for critical security risks and incident analysis.
• Internalize the company's management philosophy (PBM) and apply it in daily work.

The Experience You Will Bring

Requirements:

• Be in possession of a technical degree or higher, in the field of engineering.
• Previous experience required as a plant quality engineer or customer quality engineer.
• Required advanced written and spoken English.
• Required advanced knowledge of solving problems methodologies (8D, 5Whys, PDCA, etc.).
• Required knowledge of Excel at the user level. Valuable advanced level.
• Skills for communication, influence and teamwork.
• Ability to lead teams and to manage highly demanding situations.
• Ability to analyze data and associated actions for decision-making.
• Capable of learning and adapting to different areas.
• Valuable previous experience in the automotive sector.