Quality and Reliability Engineer - Interiors

General Motors • Full-time • United States • 3w ago

Work Arrangement: This role is categorized as onsite. This means the successful candidate is expected to report to the Arlington Assembly Plant, Arlington, TX on a full-time basis.

The Role

As a Quality Engineer, you will be the single point contact and provider of daily support for the interior components of the vehicle, IP, Center Console, Headliners, and over all the entire interior commodity concerns that are impacting the assembly plant. You are responsible to define problems and develop quick containments, root cause with robust long-term solutions to different interior problems and eliminate priority safety, quality, and throughput issues identified by vehicle customers or within the assembly plant.

You will present the assembly plant and engineering staff with clear problem definition and technical guidance on complex problems, support launch of new products in the plant and manage supplier quality problems as they arise and work with issues to document and resolve.

What You'll Do

Act as the plant’s subject matter expert on vehicle interior products and develop quality standards and procedures for production operations.
Manage multiple projects with broad scope and high degree of difficulty.
Generate unique technical solutions utilizing 7 Diamonds Process, Red X, OpEx and other tools as applicable.
Assist production in prevention of defect occurrence and recommend process changes.
Work with Launch Team on new vehicle builds. Support Issue Resolution Team (IRT) Co-Chairs as necessary and transition commodities into the team as launch progresses into saleable builds.
Work with suppliers to address SPPS issued and ensure robust countermeasures.
Work with suppliers and engineering to develop inspection standards for parts and subassemblies.
Write SPPS/PRTS for interior issues identified by the plant team.
Coordinate periodic system and process audits at the plant and at suppliers.
Coordinate the Interior Harmony Reviews in a monthly basis.
Analyze Warranty data to identify and define problems.
Work with / give direction to the interior supplier quality engineers.
Work with interior suppliers and VAA assembly to assure quality.
Work with Industrial Engineers to assure proper handling and assembly of interior components to be captured in standardized work.
Support other Interior team members as needed/directed.
Improve the Interior bucket performance for First-time quality goal of 94.5%.
Improving the Interior critical component of the DRR and meeting the greater than 95% for BIQ4.
Work Off-Shifts as required.