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Quality / Reliability Engineer Powertrain

Job Summary:

Our client in Windsor, ON is looking for a Quality / Reliability Engineer Powertrain. This is a contract position.

What You Will Do:

• Implement commodity-specific business plans to ensure your suppliers exceed all corporate launch, quality, capacity, warranty metrics, and vehicle delivery.
• Lead cross-functional decisions with Our Client & Supplier leadership to drive resolution of open issues.
• Implement actions to ensure zero vehicle losses from suppliers.
• Principal for on-site troubleshooting and corrective actions for emergency supplier situations.
• Lead adherence to Our Client´s standards (i.e.Q1).
• Lead Critical Supplier Process to drive Supplier Quality Reject (QR) performance improvement.
• Participate in Whiteboard reviews and assigned sub-system VRT (Variability Reduction Team) meetings. Drive resolution of external supplier process -1MIS and 0MIS warranty concerns.
• Support QR procedures by supporting concern binning, reviewing threshold QRs, and providing support for QR Dispute resolution. Assist the Incoming Quality (IQ) department with non-responsive suppliers. Assist suppliers and plants in QR/PPM (Parts Per Million) data accuracy.
• Drive assessment & validation of manufacturing feasibility at identified supplier sites.
• Execute the Production Part Approval Process (PPAP) and Advanced Quality Planning Process (APQP).
• Use available data, metrics, and business plans to drive future sourcing decisions ensuring improved future quality.
• Implement commodity-specific business plans to ensure your suppliers exceed all corporate launch, quality, capacity, warranty metrics, and vehicle delivery.
• Lead on-site troubleshooting and corrective actions for emergency supplier situations.
• Coordinate part quality confirmation process for suppliers with repetitive containment failure.
• Lead containment of special-cause supplier process -1MIS and 0MIS BSAQ (Balanced Single Agenda for Quality) projects.
• Align with VRT on Supplier Process (SP) BSAQ issues for Glidepath values.
• Provide early notification to and engage the STA Site team on potential Stop Shipments related to supplier process (SP).
• Provide support in containing supplier Stop Ship issues. Assist Site STA team with vehicle On-Hold and Release process tracking.
• Work with Stop Ship stakeholders to support accurate root cause for Prevent Action Closure (PAC) process reporting.
• Monitor daily production report (DPR) and provide notification to STA management for issues that require Site STA team awareness/intervention.
• Act as direct Plant Vehicle Team (PVT) resident supplier representative and liaison between STA and plant management, support Daily Plant Quality Meetings (or PIC Room) to report on containment of SP ECB (Early Concern Binning) issues, participate in VRT forums, lead supplier preparation for VQRs (Vehicle Quality Review).

Basics:

• Bachelor's Degree.
• AIAG APQP.
• Quality Assurance/Control.
• Quality Control.
• PPAP processes.
• Problem Solving.
• Machining.
• 5+ years of experience in one or more, but not limited to the following manufacturing process:
  • Casting.
  • Machining.
  • Welding.
  • Brazing.
  • Sintering.
  • Automated/Manual Assembly Processes.
  • Controls Automation programming

Preferred:

• Experience leading multiple assignments with demanding timelines.
• Manufacturing, maintenance, and quality operations experience.

How You Will Be Successful:

• Envision the Future
• Communicate Honestly and Broadly
• Seek Technology and Business “First”
• Embrace Diversity and Take Risks

What We Offer:

• Competitive Salary
• Comprehensive Benefit Package
• Group Retirement Savings Plan (GRSP) with matching contributions
• Paid holidays and vacation time off
• Free training on all Altair products

Why Work with Us:

Altair is a global technology company providing software and cloud solutions in the areas of data analytics, product development, and high-performance computing (HPC). Altair enables organizations in nearly every industry to compete more effectively in a connected world, while creating a more sustainable future. With more than 3,000 engineers, scientists, and creative thinkers in 25 countries, we help solve our customer’s toughest challenges and deliver unparalleled service, helping the innovators innovate, drive better decisions, and turn today’s problems into tomorrow’s opportunities.

Our vision is to transform customer decision making with data analytics, simulation, and high-performance computing.

For more than 30 years, we have been helping our customers integrate electronics and controls with mechanical design to expand product value, develop AI, simulation and data-driven digital twins to drive better decisions, and deliver advanced HPC and cloud solutions to support unlimited idea exploration. To learn more, please visit altair.com

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Altair is an equal opportunity employer. Our backgrounds are diverse, and every member of our global team is critical to our success. Altair’s history demonstrations a belief that empowering each individual authentic voice reinforces a culture that thrives because of the uniqueness among our team.