Job Description
Quality Engineer
Setting/Hours: 100% In-Office | Mon-Fri 8a-5p
Join trak group in partnering with a growing client in Lebanon, Ohio thats expanding its Manufacturing team.
Summary
Join trak group in partnering with a growing client seeking a Quality Engineer to support automotive quality, new product launches, and continuous improvement initiatives. This position serves as a key quality contact between customers, suppliers, and manufacturing operations, ensuring mass-production components meet customer requirements and quality expectations.
The Quality Engineer will support prototype, pre-production, and production programs, lead customer quality activities, analyze product concerns, coordinate corrective actions, and drive improvements across multiple manufacturing locations. This role requires strong Tier 1 automotive quality experience, customer-facing communication skills, and the flexibility to travel frequently to customer and supplier locations.
Responsibilities
Serve as the primary quality contact for assigned automotive customer programs.
Develop and maintain strong relationships with customers, suppliers, and internal manufacturing teams.
Support prototype reviews, new model evaluations, pre-production trials, and product launches.
Attend customer and supplier build events to evaluate product and program readiness.
Provide technical support to customer Quality Engineering and Production Engineering teams.
Lead investigation and resolution of customer quality concerns.
Analyze nonconforming products and coordinate containment, corrective action, and improvement activities.
Serve as the primary coordinator for customer-site Go & See activities.
Coordinate quality improvement initiatives across North American manufacturing facilities.
Develop and conduct supplier readiness and quality audits.
Track program development, quality issues, engineering changes, and corrective actions.
Maintain customer-required quality websites, portals, databases, and reporting systems.
Monitor customer quality performance, including PPM, scrap, defects, sorting, and rework.
Support negotiations involving rejected parts, PPM records, scrap costs, and quality-related expenses.
Develop spreadsheets, databases, timelines, and tracking tools for program and quality performance.
Use the PDCA methodology to develop, execute, monitor, and adjust quality improvement plans.
Prepare quality status reports and communicate program performance to senior management.
Coordinate with global and affiliate manufacturing locations.
Travel to customer, supplier, and manufacturing locations as required.
5+ years of professional experience or equivalent combination of education and experience.
Corporate-level Tier 1 automotive supplier experience required.
Experience working directly with automotive OEM customers.
Quality experience in mass production, new model/advanced quality, or warranty.
Experience supporting prototype, pre-production, launch, and/or mass-production quality activities.
Strong experience investigating customer quality concerns and driving corrective actions.
Knowledge of automotive quality methodologies and systems such as APQP, 5-Why, Six Sigma, and root cause analysis.
Experience managing large amounts of quality and program data across multiple locations.
Strong customer-facing communication and presentation skills.
Ability to manage multiple programs, priorities, and customer deadlines.
Strong Microsoft Office skills with the ability to develop detailed reports, timelines, databases, and tracking tools.
Ability to travel more than 50% depending on program and customer needs.
Bachelors degree in a technical field with 3+ years of automotive OEM quality experience.
Brake systems or other safety-critical automotive product experience.
Experience with Toyota quality systems including EQPR, SQIDS, SWCS, SKIP, and SPIMS.
Experience with GM, Ford, or Chrysler/Stellantis customer quality systems and portals.
Knowledge of IATF/TS 16949, ISO 9000, Shainin RedX, Six Sigma, Taguchi, and Kepner-Tregoe methodologies.
Six Sigma Green Belt.
TS/IATF 16949 Lead Auditor experience.
Experience or certifications related to heat treatment, spot welding, or projection welding audits.
If you're ready to take the next step in your career and want to make an impact, partner with trak group to explore this opportunity.
Numbers & Facts
| Location | Lebanon, OH |
| Industry | Staffing/Employment Agencies |
| Company Size | 500 to 999 employees |
| Year Founded | 1972 |
| Website | http://www.trakcincy.com/ |
About Company
trak group, established in 1972, is proud of its impeccable reputation as a professional recruiting and staffing firm. trak has demonstrated an unmatched level of expertise and success in the industry, and takes great pride in its A+ rating from the Better Business Bureau.
trak has been awarded “Best Places to Work” by the Business Courier three consecutive years; following the third and final nomination, trak was respectfully awarded with “The Best of the Best”. We continue to hold the Consumers’ Choice Award for Business Excellence and the “SPECTRUM Award” for Service Excellence from City Beat News indicating a 5-star customer service rating. Six of our employees have been inducted into the prestigious “International Hall of Fame” and four carry national certifications lending to their dedication and passion for our industry.
Specializing in direct hire, alternative hire and contract opportunities, trak is currently partnering with over 300 client companies in the Greater Cincinnati and Northern Kentucky Area. Because we are proud of our process, we take time to source, screen and evaluate each candidate. Our placement fields include office support, customer service, accounting and finance, operations, management, human resources, sales and marketing, engineering and supply chain management.
Skills
- Advanced Product Quality Planning (APQP)unmatched
- Analysis Skillsunmatched
- Auditingunmatched
- Automotive Engineeringunmatched
- Automotive Industryunmatched
- Braking Systemsunmatched
- Communication Skillsunmatched
- Continuous Improvementunmatched
- Corrective Actionunmatched
- Customer Relationsunmatched
- Database Programmingunmatched
- Develop Methodologiesunmatched
- Develop and Maintain Customersunmatched
- Heat Treatmentunmatched
- ISO 9000unmatched
- Internet Portalunmatched
- Manufacturingunmatched
- Manufacturing Operationsunmatched
- Mass Productionunmatched
- Microsoft Officeunmatched
- Model Reviewunmatched
- Negotiation Skillsunmatched
- OEM (Original Equipment Manufacturer)unmatched
- Organizational Skillsunmatched
- Performance Analysisunmatched
- Performance Managementunmatched
- Presentation/Verbal Skillsunmatched
- Process Improvementunmatched
- Product Programsunmatched
- Product Testingunmatched
- Product/Service Launchunmatched
- Program Evaluationunmatched
- Project Portfolio Management (PPM)unmatched
- Project/Program Managementunmatched
- Prototypingunmatched
- Quality Assuranceunmatched
- Quality Engineeringunmatched
- Quality Managementunmatched
- Quality Monitoringunmatched
- Reporting Skillsunmatched
- Root Cause Analysisunmatched
- Six Sigmaunmatched
- Spreadsheetsunmatched
- Status Reportsunmatched
- TS 16949unmatched
- Technical Supportunmatched
- Time Managementunmatched
- Vendor/Supplier Managementunmatched
- Vendor/Supplier Relationsunmatched
- Weldingunmatched
- Willing to Travelunmatched
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