Gauteng: Quality Engineer posted by Green Marble Recruitment Consultants

• Quality, production management or other relevant qualification.
• 3 – 5 years of automotive (ideally tier 1 supplier) experience.
• 4 – 5 years experience in a similar role in the automotive and manufacturing environment.
• Relevant ISO training certification, Internal Auditor minimum.
• Quality auditing implementation and management is ESSENTIAL.
• Understanding of Six Sigma and Lean Manufacturing principles.

Responsibilities
Quality

• Managing all aspects of Quality Control.
• Including the vehicle personalisation production line, the vehicle modifications centre, and the Roller Shutter Sub Assembly operation.
• Ensuring that standards, processes and procedures, legal requirements, and product quality standards are required to support the customer needs and ensure customer satisfaction.
• This position is also responsible for maintaining and developing the quality management system, ensuring that the business continues to achieve and maintain the various ISO, IATF, and brand-specific quality standards required to retain the contracts we have with OEMs.
• Support production activities ensuring work is delivered at a high-quality standard.
• Actively involved in all process changes including new launch and level changes, processes, and product changes with formulation work instructions of final line check sheets.
• Direct involvement in continuous improvement activity in production, actively contributing to the improvement of the ‘First Time Through’ (FTT) Scores.
• Ensure all quality-related concerns raised by customers are attended to and resolved timeously.
• Overall responsibility to ensure that all relevant documents and records are appropriately completed, monitored, presented, and stored.
• Overall responsibility to ensure that all quality checks, internal and external audits, processes, and inspections are conducted and completed as required.
• Overall responsibility for the NCR process and documentation, ensuring corrective action and successful concern resolution – including start-to-finish paper trail.
• Compile monthly management QC report and VMC KPI scorecard and report.
• Responsible for managing and supporting the QC Department staff.
• Ad hoc duties are required by an authorized person.

QMS Management and Compliance

• Overall responsibility for the implementation, updating and management of the Quality Management System (QMS) including ISO 9001 (2015), 45001 and 14001 and IATF 16949.
• Achieve and Maintain the Ford Q1 Standard as required for Tier 1 supply.
• Planning and creation of a detailed Audit Schedule, at the start of every year, submitted to the Management Team for approval before 31 January every year.
• Ensuring the timeous execution of these internal, external, and supplier audits as per the approved annual audit schedule.
• Overall responsibility to champion the timeous closing of all findings from these audits and deadlines to be agreed upon based on audit type and severity of finding.
• Verification of all controlled document files and test records is done in a timely and accurate manner.
• Verification and approval of inspection procedures and quality check sheets.
• Organize and be responsible for the management review meetings and ISO committee meetings, including taking minutes, filing, and distribution.
• Editing and formatting assets documents as per document control guidelines and approved templates.
• Calculation of Cost of Quality per location.