Eastern Cape, East London
Negotiable Monthly (Market related, Negotiable)
Opportunity Available! Our well known client in the Automotive Sector is looking to employ a Quality Engineer to join their dynamic team in East London.
Job Description:
- Maintain the Quality of Safety Management Systems in accordance with ISO 9001:2015 and IATF 16946:2016, VDA6.3 and VDA 5
- To liaise with customers to ensure that customer specific requirements are implemented and maintained, including warranty systems
- To ensure that Quality, Safety, Health and Environment requirements are met at all stages of process development and production
- Coordinate control and conduct technical analysis of customer returns
- Liaise with the relevant departments to conduct root cause analysis and identify counter measures for customer returns
- Monitor and report on a weekly and monthly basis on customer returns, customer complaints (G8D's) internal and external PPM's and continual improvement activities
- Assist with any technical problems in the factory, including problem solving and risk analysis
- Attend to any customer complaints and queries timeously and report back to production manager
- Control quality policies, procedures, systems and standards in the plant
- Manage and supervise quality personnel and ensure training needs analysis and necessary training takes place
- Formulation/ documented input with regard to control plans, FMEA's and Quality instructions in co-operation with the responsible Process Engineer
- To maintain and exceed both internal and external customer requirements/ targets for quality and PPM
- Prevention of internal / external failures through audits and corrective/ preventative action methods
- Manage and conduct regular product, process and dock audits according to VDA6.3
- Manage and control the receiving inspection, patrol inspection and final buy off inspection
Job Requirements:
- Matric
- National Diploma (T3/ S4/ N6) Mechanical Engineering, Industrial Engineering
- FMEA, SPC, MSA - Core tools
- Quality Planning, Problem Solving
- Advanced EMS 1S0 14001, in depth knowledge of ISO 9001:2015 and IATF 16946:2016; VDA6.3 and VDA6.5
- 5 years experience plastics injection moulding experience on automotive plastics components
- 5 years plastic injection moulding tooling and development and manufacturing experience
- 3-5 years project management experience on automotive component projects