REQUIREMENTS

• Relevant Bachelor’s Degree or higher qualification, ideally in Mechanical or Industrial Engineering
• Minimum of 5 years in the automotive industry
• Familiar with Customer Development Process
• Good knowledge of FES and QSE for internal candidates
• Leadership and autonomy
• Team player with strong communication skills
• International mind-set
• Dynamic and proactive behaviour

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Overall responsibility for the achievement of quality deliverables until the start of production
• Coordinate the program quality function for a global program between several regions or product lines
  • Ensure capitalization of experience from previous programs
  • Ensure that best practices are shared within all regions about the program management system deliverables, engineering change requests, product issues, lessons learned, shop floor solutions, and bought part issues with the potential impacts on the customer
  • Arbitrate issues between global and local content about design validation plans, specifications and measurement devices
  • Support advanced supplier quality function activities with an international supplier when there is a worldwide quality issue affecting the customer
  • Ensure the coordinator/ animation of the program quality engineer (weekly review)
  • Report the regional quality status of the program manager
  • If required substitute for a local program quality engineer, if mandatory deliverables in the country are missing (i.e. quality target study, etc.)
• Represent the customer's voice within the company and ensure leadership when needed with the customer and internally with the other functions on quality matters
• Focus on specific critical items managed by other program core team functions to ensure successful launch and customer satisfaction throughout all regions
  • Design validation plan: analyse consistency and the possibility of using results from other regions
  • Failure mode analysis and control plan: ensure alignment and best practice sharing
  • Appearance approval: ensure that the very first customer approval for appearance is available for all regions
  • Perceived quality: coordinate understanding of internal quality issues and customer complaints
  • Convergence plans: support convergence planning and ensure overall coordination and follow-up
  • Process robustness: ensure alignment about key control characteristics, Poka Yoke, standard work, and process capabilities
  • Coordinate the program quality function for a global program between several regions or product lines
  • Risk assessment: manage the risk assessment process with a focus on Poka Yoke, final inspection and temporary quality wall
  • Global alignment: manage regular reviews with all PQLs/ QE to ensure alignment and best practice sharing
  • Take the lead to uphold the commitment CoE, CoM and other internal compliance policies in the responsible team and relevant business partners to ensure that it is distributed to all employees and that each employee adheres to it