Quality Projects Engineer III (Team Lead)

Description

Position Summary:

Performs quality control inspections, checks, and tests during the manufacture of products. Inspects materials, parts and products at different stages of production. Records observations and drives changes/ recommendations for improving processes.  

Essential Duties and Responsibilities include the following, other duties may be assigned:

• Responsible for timely completion of program launch deliverables.
• Plans and supervises daily activities of quality project engineers, and measurement technicians to ensure adherence to established department, organization, and customer specification parameters
• Ensure customer requirements are understood and communicated to the departments.
• Works with cross-functional teams (department and site) to address customers concerns from containment through the implementation of corrective/preventive actions.
• Review existing data from past programs’ customer reviews, and provide feedback to the program team for improvement and risk mitigation for HoV programs.
• Project Management skills
• Be the focal for Quality aspects (receiving inspection/FAI parts, supplier approval, FAI/CSI, test conformity, hand-over to process quality engineers) for assigned HoV programs.
• Review and approve Design Change Proposals for seat programs, conforming to RECARO Quality System
• Review and approve effectivity lists for HoV programs
• Conduct daily shop floor meetings with the quality projects team, to oversee progress, and address deviations, and plan risk mitigation on on-going projects.
• Work load planning and resource allocation for quality projects engineers, and measurement team
• Responsible for all personnel issues and performance evaluations of direct reports, including performance management, identifying training needs, capacity building and succession planning
• Develops and maintains quality statistics, charts defects and non-conformities utilizing computer system. Maintains all relevant documentation
• Perform internal audit of the FAI/CSI process, and continually improve the processes.
• Coordinate preparation and approval of commitment letters for deviations related to customer requirements on assigned HoV programs.
• Prepare Quality Inspection Dossiers, for deviations from RECARO standards, and/or per customer requirements for HoV programs.
• Establishes quality control plans for customer programs and ensures final product meets the required control plans. Records and resolves deviations.
• Acts as a liaison between customer program activities to final/ source inspectors to ensure final product meets the quality requirements of customer, regulatory authorities, OEM and internal specifications.
• Analyze and assist in driving the DPU (Defects per Unit) reduction along with production team.
• Liaise with OEM (Airbus and Boeing) inspection to reduce factory defects found at OEM facility.
• Performs Quality inspections in a manner that ensures all quality and production standards are met and the final product meets RECARO engineering specifications, customer, and regulatory requirements (FAA, EASA, LBA, and other CAA) and OEM (Airbus and Boeing) specifications.
• Assists and offers solutions for the successful resolution of quality issues. Suggests new and improved methods for continuous improvement of the quality management system.
• Maintains quality statistics, charts defects and nonconformities utilizing computer system. Maintains all relevant documentation.
• Is a Material Review Board (MRB) member, calls MRB Meeting and is part of the decision making process. Prepares periodic reports pertaining to quality issues and their resolution from First Article Inspection (FAI) and Customer Seat Inspection (CSI) 
• As needed, calls MRB Meeting and is part of the decision making process. Prepares reports pertaining to quality issues and their resolution.
• Initiate quality documentation as required concerning issues of assembly and/or materials.
• Moderate to heavy use in SAP and CDB
• Coordinates closely with other RECARO sites to ensure consistency with practices, procedures and specifications.  
• Support Lean and 5S initiatives
• Participate actively in continuous improvement program and corrective action projects, contributing by leading specific improvement activities. Perform root cause analysis of defects data and drive improvements 
• Assists and implements solutions for the successful resolution of quality issues. Suggests new and improved methods for continuous improvement of the quality management system.
• Maintains complete knowledge of the Quality Management Manual and relevant procedures and follows all guidelines as defined by ISO9001/AS9100, Airbus and Boeing requirements, customer requ