Quality Engineer 2nd Shift

Description

Job Summary: Quality Engineer responsible for implementing and maintaining quality systems, ensuring compliance with customer standards and requirements, and managing continuous improvement. Key Responsibilities: 1. Implementation and maintenance of quality systems. 2. Quality management for customers, processes, products, and suppliers. 3. Problem resolution and continuous process improvement. **Department:** Quality **Job Title:** Quality Engineer 2nd Shift **Reports To:** Quality Manager Functional Objectives: 1. Propose and implement quality systems. 2. Identify technical issues, determine root cause, and implement solutions. 3. Maintain continuity and compliance with the Quality Management System. Responsibilities include: * Supporting HARTING Mexico Manufacturing to ensure that produced and shipped products meet quality standards and customer requirements. * Ensuring quality across customers, processes, products, and suppliers. * Maintaining plant key performance indicators (KPIs) and measuring progress, implementing corrective actions when objectives are not met. * Generating and analyzing trend charts to review customer complaints and in-process defects. * Ensuring correct use of measurement instruments, complying with quality standards using calibrated measurement equipment. * Managing calibration plans for measurement and test instruments per manufacturer and/or customer specifications. * Interpreting customer drawings to meet product quality requirements. * Identifying critical process points (CTQs) and controlling them. * Managing, coordinating, and ensuring containment actions upon receipt of customer complaints. * Issuing quality alerts to all plant stakeholders; coordinating/convening root-cause analysis meetings with cross-functional teams. * Reviewing, analyzing, and approving containment and corrective actions to eliminate defects, ensuring no recurrence. * Monitoring effectiveness of actions taken in response to customer complaints, applying the 8D problem-solving methodology to resolve customer complaints. * Supporting operational personnel and managing their activities to help achieve organizational objectives. * Assisting in resolving problems, conflicts, and interpersonal differences jointly with the Quality Technician to ensure effective team communication. * Managing internal and/or external audits to ensure all HARTING processes comply with applicable quality standards. * Validating incoming raw material inspections performed by personnel and associated documentation. * Validating in-process inspections performed by personnel and associated documentation. * Managing process and/or product change controls. * Administering process deviations, ensuring proper execution per deviation documentation. * Creating, modifying, and/or updating quality documentation for processes and the Quality Management System (Control Plans, Incoming/Process/Final Inspection Cards, Corrective Actions, Quality Procedures). * Ensuring and auditing production line adherence to Control Plans, verifying inspection frequencies and sample sizes. * Updating and maintaining the Control Plan document, incorporating necessary controls after each customer complaint in collaboration with cross-functional teams, aligned with updated failure modes in the PFMEA. * Training personnel to ensure IPC 610 and IPC 620 standard criteria are applied during product inspection. * Creating limit samples defining acceptance/rejection criteria for quality defects, from NPI trial runs through mass production. * Supporting all project launch phases—from feasibility studies, selection of required measurement equipment, human resources, fixtures, interpretation of customer requirements—to final product delivery and reporting Safe Launch results. * Developing on-line support documentation such as Visual Aids and producing physical samples to define defect acceptance/rejection criteria, managing sample preservation and storage. * Performing required transactions in the SAP system. * Managing and supervising floor-level Quality Technicians and Inspectors. * Planning, managing, and administering training for newly hired Quality Technicians and Inspectors. * Balancing production lines with quality personnel to meet established takt time. * Enforcing the rule: “If a defect or nonconformance is detected three consecutive times or five times within one hour on the serial production line, the process must be stopped by Quality until the nonconformance is resolved.” * Participating, engaging, and proactively contributing improvement ideas under HARlis. * Tracking and executing HARlis-related activities. * Understanding the Quality Policy and Quality Objectives. * Performing duties and responsibilities in accordance with the documented Quality System. * Recommending and implementing improvements to activities and processes within the Quality System. * The above-listed responsibilities are illustrative, not exhaustive. Education and Professional Knowledge: * Industrial Engineering, Mechatronics, Electronics, or related field. * 3 years of experience in quality management within industry. Required Functional, Technical, and Individual Competencies: \-Knowledge and application of IATF 16949\-2016, ISO 9001\-2015, ISO 14001, IPC\-A\-610, IPC\-A\-620, and/or other quality-related standards or certifications applicable to HARTING-manufactured products. * Lean manufacturing management. * Proficiency in quality instruments and tools. * Knowledge of metrology. * Knowledge of inspection techniques. * Core Tools. * Ability to audit internal systems, identify issues, and recommend solutions. * Knowledge of technical documentation. * Advanced English. * Effective communication, leadership, and strong interpersonal skills for teamwork. * Decision-making capability for optimal problem resolution. * Sense of urgency with focus on achieving results. * Analytical ability and attention to detail. * Process innovation. * Ethics. * Design and management of efficient and sustainable processes. * Environmental and corporate social responsibility. Previous experience in the following areas would be advantageous: * Project management.