Quality Engineer

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**Job Purpose** --------------- Job Description Content for Job Profiles is a work in progress. If you need content to finalize this requisition for posting, please send a message to mydanahrplatform@dana.com.**Job Duties and Responsibilities** ----------------------------------- Job Description Content for Job Profiles is a work in progress. If you need content to finalize this requisition for posting, please send a message to mydanahrplatform@dana.com.**COMPANY NAME: DANA DE MEXICO CORPORACIÓN S DE RL DE CV TOLUCA PLANT** **GENERAL INFORMATION** **Position Name / Position Name** **Quality Engineer** **Functional Department:** *Quality* **Department / Area:** *Quality* **Reports To** *Quality Systems Coordinator* **Direct Reports** **Employer:** *Dana de Mexico Corporación S de RL de CV* **Last Review Date** **March 2025** **DIMENSIONS** **Indicator** Scrap % vs. sales, CPKs, LPAs, CAR/PAR/ISCARs, APQP, Accident Rate, RPS, Internal Complaints **GENERAL PURPOSE / POSITION CONTRIBUTION (Spanish)** Ensure that, within its areas of responsibility for product and process, during applicable process stages—from raw materials to shipment—the product complies with established quality, safety, cost, and timing specifications per customer requirements, the Integrated Quality System, and international standards, with the objective of satisfying customer requirements. **OBJECTIVES** **ROLES** **Comply with customer-established requirements.**- Participate in Advanced Product Quality Planning (APQP) activities to ensure that every Dana Toluca manufacturing process is supported by appropriate documentation validating its design, feasibility, verification, and customer approval—thereby meeting pre-established customer requirements. - Collaborate with the APQP team to plan, develop, and validate processes for new products or engineering changes; perform machine capability studies (Cpk and Ppk); develop process control plans; define inspection requirements in Operation and Inspection Sheets; complete the plant’s PPAP submission; and generate Super SPC charts for new products—all to ensure manufactured products meet customer requirements. - Maintain up-to-date documentation for product lines—including FMEAs, Control Plans, Operation and Inspection Sheets, visual aids, etc.—to provide recommendations to responsible departments for preparation of such records and approve them where applicable. - Obtain PPAP approval via customer release of the Part Submission Warrant (PSW), thereby securing formal customer consent to commence production. - Update PPAP submissions as required by engineering or process changes and obtain customer approval. - Address customer complaints, inform production and manufacturing personnel, coordinate root cause analysis, and submit corrective actions to the customer; document all such actions in the Complaint Pro system. - Coordinate meetings for root cause analysis and documentation of corrective actions related to customer complaints or key quality issues within assigned product lines. **Ensure effectiveness and efficiency of machined products.**- Identify actual and potential product and process failure causes using statistical tools, analyzing data from inspection records, setup reports, and product/process monitoring. - Coordinate with multidisciplinary teams to review SPC charts for assigned product lines; identify special and common causes monthly where applicable for unstable or incapable processes; define necessary corrective actions; convert these into controlled processes meeting specifications; ensure implementation; and evaluate effectiveness of actions taken. - Develop improvement plans and corrective actions as needed based on CEP-controlled characteristic capability and stability values. **Ensure compliance with product and process specifications, consistency and currency of documentation, and adherence to documented requirements.**- Conduct process audits per established procedures. - Prepare relevant records—including logs, indicators, CARs, PARs, RMAs, etc.—to enable process performance assessment and informed decision-making. - Train auditors, new hires, and line personnel on Operation and Inspection Sheets, audits, Control Plans, gauges, indicators, etc., to ensure awareness that manufactured products must meet customer-defined specifications. - Manage supplier- or customer-initiated material deviations within assigned areas and ensure materials fully comply with defined specifications upon deviation closure. - Capture and report scrap daily. - Prepare daily RPS reports for the top 1 scrap source. - Train and authorize new hires within assigned areas of responsibility. **Receiving, disposition, and capture of scrap across the entire plant**- Receive and control scrap from all plant areas. - Validate scrap entries from all departments. - Generate scrap reports in APEX. - Capture plant-wide scrap daily. - Dispose of scrap when area capacity is reached, via weighing and destruction. **Communicate results to various departments.**- Support and provide data for weekly Value Stream Map meetings (including internal/external PPM reports and scrap reports). - Perform Layered Process Audits (LPAs) per the monthly LPA schedule. - Ensure accurate and timely entry of scrap data for assigned product lines into Oracle and report top daily issues to manufacturing to initiate corrective actions. - Close applicable KPIs monthly, as well as non-conforming material controls—including quality alerts, internal corrective actions, ISCARs, and CARs in Complaint Pro, plus CPKs and capability metrics—within the first 10 business days following month-end.