Swx Qpel

**QPEL Quality Plant Engineering Lead**

**Principle Relationships**

Main working relationships:

- Daily Operational Production meetings with Quality Plant Engineering Manager and his team, control tower to deal with quality issues / production
- Weekly meetings with FQM manager
- Weekly meetings with Supplier Quality Development, ENG/CCLP Cross Car Line & Project, MFG/VPE/GAPE to coordinate the progress of the 7 diamonds
- Convening of the site director's / quality managers of the most failing supplier sites. Meetings with suppliers

**Operational Context**
- The holder of this function must contribute to improving the quality level of new and customer vehicles in a context of ever more ambitious quality objectives
- The position requires great responsiveness in order to meet quality and production requirements
- Autonomous in the decision (or to lead if necessary) to modify the automotive product or the process to guarantee the quality of the vehicles
- Support the Quality Plant Engineering Manager to make decision to hold vehicles and market vehicles
- Autonomous in the convocation and animation of suppliers, represents Company with suppliers
- As soon as possible in order to avoid increasing outstanding rework area (issues on retouching costs and customer delivery time)

**Responsibilities include but are not limited to**:

- Do vehicle issue diagnosis and root cause analysis
- Ensure that his team carries out the pre-analysis activities on time
- Do risk assessments and lead corrective action plans
- Guarantee the product - process maturity of the components of his perimeter management of serial life (windows change management).
- Propose alternative product solution in case of issues (as shortage) to avoid to stop mass production in the plant
- Participate in Quality ENG tech clubs
- Implementation of good idea and standards (Read Across)
- Ensure that the skills of his team is at the right level
- Ensure the management activities of his team (daily management control meeting)
- Ensure that his team is working in safety
- Lead quality KPI management to achieve quality objectives, driving improvement/corrective actions and escalation
- Resolution of systemic/chronic or major quality issues (Top Warranty, Recalls,)
- Technical support Yard Holds / Product Related Issues (PRI's) technical referent inside the PRI.
- Set-up / On-going Controls for Process / product Standards for Vehicle & System Functional Objectives (i.e. ADAS, BSR, FEA)

**Requirements**:
**Must Haves**:

- Strong Leadership; recognized influencer and ability to challenge team in achieving goals.
- Ability to Communicate; represent technical challenges in front of senior leadership and develop strategies to resolve complex problems.
- Technical Awareness; familiar with automotive electronic and propulsion systems including modules/actuators/sensors and power distribution.
- **Requirements**
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or related degree field
- Minimum of 8 years of related experience
- Previous experience in Engineering Department, Vehicle/mechanic Plant or Project team
- Ability to lead an Engineering team to deliver product changes and launches on time
- Experience with Root Cause Analysis (RCA) and corrective actions
- Strong communication skills, both written and verbal from High Level Meetings down to the Shop Floor
- Ability to work off shift hours as necessary
- Self-motivated and directed
- Ability to thrive in a high intensity environment while working on multiple projects
- Rigorous and pragmatic
- Languages: plant language & English

**Preferred Requirements**:

- Master's degree
- Green belt
- World Class Manufacturing experience