New Boston
Senior Product Quality Engineer
As a successful family-owned company on a path to global growth, the Brose Group offers challenging responsibilities and exciting career opportunities to performance-driven, skilled specialists with solid professional knowledge and proven career expertise who wish to contribute to our company’s success.
Your Tasks
- Daily coordination of shop floor quality activities to ensure Brose and its customers are protected.
- Functional leadership of Quality Auditors and the Salvage Team, focusing on their career and skill development.
- Escalation support for Quality Auditors and Leadership during internal and customer issues.
- Responsible for shop floor quality KPI’s for the plant (e.g. Scrap, RT, Rework Rate etc…).
- Owner of the plant scrap, salvage and rework processes.
- Mentor and support Quality Auditors and Salvage Operators with quality issues and problem solving.
- Define and monitor a clear concept for shopfloor audits, enforcing dicipline, Brose basic rules and correct PFM.
- Responsible for (improving) scrap reporting tools and ensuring correct 551/552 transactions.
- Lead scrap reduction projects in coordination with the PQC.
- Owner of the Procella software for the plant.
- Lead the improvement of the NBO rework and salvage concepts (incl. rework station concepts).
- Own the hold and sort areas and all areas where NOK material is stored, ensuring correct material flow and labeling.
- Own the career development process for Quality Auditors and Salvage, defining a clear path from junior QA to QE in alignment with the PQC.
- Create training and development plans for the quality team, aiming to close skill gaps and ensure successors are defined.
- Lead the continuous improvement of our daily shop floor quality and salvage processes.
- Initiation and follow-up on sorting activities and containment concerning parts that do not meet specification.
Your Profile
- At least 5 years’ professional experience in the area of quality, ideally at least 1-3 years in a position in the automotive industry as a quality specialist.
- Knowledge of appropriate procedures for planning and optimizing quality processes.