APQP QA Development Engineer

Location: Twinsburg, OH

The Project/Design Quality Assurance Engineer is responsible for ensuring project integrity and feedback to the customer of any required quality topics identified through internal or external audit / monitoring.This role will assist members of the Program/Design/Industrialization team in the achievement of project quality, customer satisfaction and quality improvement targets, helping to make design processes more robust.

Dimensions

• Project/Design Quality Assurance Engineer will interface directly with the customer and regulatory authorities.
• Project Quality Assurance Engineer will act as the subject matter expert for quality tools and techniques applied in operations.
• Project Quality Assurance Engineer is the point of escalation for quality matters with the customer and within the project team.
• No direct budget responsibility - but will identify training needs, system weaknesses and opportunities to improve methods of functional and business working through audits and make recommendations for the appropriate expenditure to deliver these actions.

Principal accountabilities

• Prepares and implements the program/project quality plan in line with SAFRAN referential and customer requirements, and provides support on other Program/Project plans
• Contributes to the preparation and represents quality at project/program gate reviews.
• Participates in project risks/opportunities reviews and ensures that acceptable levels of risk have been agreed and communicated internally with action plan.
• Participates in change control board reviews where required.
• Takes timely and relevant containment actions and ensure traceability investigations are carried out as required.
• Leads on customer interaction for quality escapes and request for customer approvals in conjunction with technical, operations & programmes.
• Ensures compliance with all customer, regulatory, ISO9001 and AS9100 requirements and audits and actively lead the closure of any corrective actions or required improvements.
• Leads the process, system or product audits as required and ensures deployment through themselves and the team.
• Ensures all necessary information and facts are gathered relating to quality issues within the business ensuring they are appropriately documented and communicated to relevant stakeholders.
• Ensures robust corrective actions are assigned and delivered across all parts of the business.
• Key contributor to the Project/Programs rituals: Monthly Programme Reviews,

Monthly Quality Reviews, etc.

• Integration of Quality throughout the System/Product Design Review process;
• Drive standardised mitigation plans in order to prevent/mitigate risk linked to the product and its related processes;
• Facilitate and support root cause analysis & practical problem solving activities
• Supporting the lessons learned process in order to improve organization efficiency and product maturity;