Quality - Quality Engineer

**Position Summary**:
Ensure that the production objectives are met on time with the required quality, in addition to ensuring the scheduled cost and with the current safety standards, complying with the KPI's of the Manufacturing Units: Safety, Scrap, Efficiency, PPM's and Overtime.

**Duties & Responsibilities**:

- Safety Guidelines Ensure that established safety procedures are followed, including the use of personal protection equipment and protocols against Covid 19
- Ensure that production lines are not operating with unsafe acts or conditions, otherwise manage actions to your correction.
- Ensure the correct performance of the 5s audits and the follow-up of the findings.
- Ensure that environmental controls are followed. Has the authority and responsibility to shut down equipment or lines when safety and quality are at risk.
- Quality Guidelines Comply with HFI's quality procedures, ensuring the correct completion of all records and managing the correction of any discrepancies at the time. When there is a quality problem, join the multidisciplinary team for problem solving. When there is a problem that generates a quality draw, manage the actions and resources to eliminate it.
- Production and Delivery Guidelines Ensure that production orders are closed on time managing the resources in charge to fulfill it.
- Promote and participate in the generation of improvement ideas with the staff in charge in order to promote continuous improvement.
- Cost Guidelines Ensure that SCRAP and Overtime measurables are under control and otherwise manage the resources and actions to do so.
- Ensure compliance with the policies and procedures of HFI Respect the Internal Work Regulations, Respect the safety procedures, Hygiene, and the environment. Work safely.
- Determine the training and training needs for the personnel in charge (production leader and production operators) in addition to coordinating the updating of the skills matrix. Ensure that the hours worked, of each of its collaborators, are reported daily in the Ceridian and in the timecard for the correct calculation of the payroll and the efficiency report.
- Complete performance evaluations of personnel under their charge and the correct completion of the documentation and authorization of the same.
- Adhere to the procedures, regulations and codes of Business Conduct and Ethics. Required relationships Internal External With all areas of the company Customers, Auditors and Suppliers

**Qualifications/Knowledge/Skills/Abilities**:

- Proficient in Microsoft Office products.
- Organizational Skills (meets established goals and objectives)
- Detail orientation (ensures all minor and major details are accomplished, work performed is accurate, neat, and thorough)
- Communications Skills (good listener, excellent written and oral skills)
- Ethical (honest, moral standards, follows established policies, integrity)
- Teamwork (cooperates and supports other team members at all levels)
- Reliability (self-starter who can get job done with little to no supervision)
- Attitude (energetic, promotes positive views)

**Education**:

- Degree of Studies Bachelor's Degree
- Desired education Postgraduate
- Specialization
- Quality manager
- Experience from 4 to 8 years
- Experience in the automotive industry
- Intermediate English
- Reports to: Quality Manager
- Reporting positions: Quality inspectors
- Others: Occasionally work weekends.

**Professional Qualifications or Experience**:
TECHNICAL COMPETENCES
- Competency Description Requirement Level
- Policies and procedures HFI Essential Advanced
- Management of Office Essential Advanced
- Knowledge and handling of procedures of the Management System of
- Indispensable Advanced Quality
- Knowledge of ISO14001 Standard Desirable Intermediate
- Knowledge of IATF16949 Essential Advanced
- Knowledge of the HFI Employee Handbook Advanced Essential
- Specific requirements of the Client and use of their portals (if applicable) Indispensable Advanced
- Working knowledge of GD&t Essential Advanced
- Teamwork Essential Advanced
- Knowledge of Core tools APQP/PPAP, FMEA, MSA,
- SPC, CP Essential Advanced

KEY SKILLS AND COMPETENCIES
- Negotiation, Communication, Planning, Work by Objectives,
- emotional intelligence
- Responsible, organized, analytical, critical, impartial, honest, with
- initiative, proactive
- Advanced analysis and troubleshooting skills;
- knowledge of quality tools and experience in their use
- Strong leadership with a positive attitude

AREAS OF EFFECTIVENESS AND INDICATORS
- Impact Areas
- Product Quality Internal PPM, external PPM, customer complaints
- Scrap process quality, internal customer complaints
- Compliance with standards Qualification Audits
- Continuous improvement savings