Project Quality Engineer

Role Summary

Company: MANN+HUMMEL

Location: Dunlap, TN

 

As a Project Quality Engineer with MANN+HUMMEL, you will lead quality assurance efforts within customer development projects, ensuring compliance with both customer-specific and internal quality requirements from project initiation to closure. You will develop and implement robust control plans, provide transparency on quality status, and coordinate problem-solving processes to achieve timely customer PPAP approval.

Main Tasks

Key Responsibilities

• Serve as the Quality representative in customer development projects from project approval to closure, leading interactions with the customer’s quality representative throughout the APQP process.
• Develop and implement robust control plans for various project phases, up to serial production, ensuring compliance with customer-specific and internal quality requirements.
• Provide transparency on project quality status to the project team, Steering Committee, and OE Quality Organization, and initiate escalation processes if quality targets are not met.
• Act as an expert and coach on APQP tools within the project team, holding the authority to halt processes or product delivery in case of serious non-conformance.
• Support the development of D-FMEAs and P-FMEAs with quality-related input, and align customer and internal drawings with engineering and metrology to ensure specifications are feasible for production.
• Assist in establishing design and production validation plans, execute validation tests, and define and implement gauges and measurement fixtures for serial production.
• Ensure correct execution and documentation of all dimensional measurements throughout project phases, and maintain responsibility for the conformity of parts delivered to the customer up to PPAP.
• Support R&D in defining requalification requirements in control plans and act as the internal quality interface for the Supplier Quality Engineer to communicate requirements.
• Coordinate customer product and process releases during all project phases, lead problem-solving processes for customer claims or internal deviations before full PPAP approval, and oversee the handover process to plant CQE, ensuring proper application of quality controls for serial production.
• In global projects, manage PQE tasks for project phases 0 to 3, involve local PQEs in respective subprojects, hand over responsibility from phase 4 onwards, and ensure compliance with quality standards.
• Participate in creating global D-FMEAs and master P-FMEAs for common part families, develop a global Control Plan Concept, and supervise its implementation at local sites.
• Coordinate input from all local PQEs on drawings and measurement strategies, and act as the point of contact with the customer for global quality where required.
• Provide input on APQP/PPAP requirements for common Tier 2 parts, support achieving project milestones in all local subprojects, and coordinate the implementation of quality-related lessons learned.

Your Profile

Education and Experience:

• University degree (bachelor or master) in engineering.
• At least 2 years of department supervision and management experience.
• CQE (Certified Quality Engineer) certification preferred.

Skills:

• Experience with quality engineering (APQP procedures, 8D systematic, control plan, capability analysis, MSA, SPC, FMEA, PRFPP Poka Yoke, etc.).
• Understanding of IATF 16949 requirements, VDA or AIAG standards.
• Familiarity with technical drawings, problem-solving techniques, and related software (MS Office, Q-DAS, IQ-FMEA, SAP).
• Knowledge of customer PPAP procedures and requirements.
• Experience with process and system audits.
• Experience in the automotive industry, particularly in practical mass production a plus.
• Relevant process experience (e.g., plastic injection, plastic welding, assembly, end-of-line test).
• Strong customer focus and technical change management.
• Ability to make timely decisions with a continuous improvement mindset.
• Effective conflict management and analytical thinking.
• Proficiency in problem-solving and application of lessons learned.

We offer

Benefits:

• Competitive salary commensurate with experience.
• Comprehensive benefits package, including health insurance, retirement plans, and paid time off.
• Opportunities for career advancement and professional growth within a global organization.
• A dynamic and inclusive work environment that fosters creativity, collaboration, and innovation.

 

Join MANN+HUMMEL and be part of a team that is shaping the future of filtration technology. A