Adient

Designs, manufactures, and delivers automotive seating

Engineer Advanced Quality

Quality EngineeringConfirmed live in the last 24 hours

Full-timeNo salary listed

About the Job

Requirements

A BSc or BEng degree, or equivalent experience, is required.
Specific education and training in Quality disciplines, including at minimum IATF 16949, Continuous Improvement, APQP, PPAP, FMEA, Control Plans, DOE, and SPC.
At least 4 years of experience in the automotive industry.
At least 2 years of experience in a quality area.
Knowledge of the AIAG Quality Manuals, including APQP, PPAP, MSA, and FMEA.
Manufacturing quality system experience and customer communication experience.
Fluent English is required.
Willingness to travel is required.

Responsibilities

Ensure all Advanced Quality Requirements are met for new model launches in accordance with Adient's Product Launch System (PLUS), including preparing Control Plans for prototype, pre-production, and production requirements; completing the Appearance Manual to relevant customer standards; validating and verifying gauging for production use; conducting and evaluating measurement and capability data; ensuring IMDS compliance across all BOM items; conducting supplier APQP activities to achieve Supplier PSW Approval; ensuring suppliers conduct DVP&R activities as part of PPAP; holding Grain Go and Colour Harmony/AAR events with customers and suppliers for component approval; obtaining Supplier PPAP Approval; working with Adient departments to generate Customer PPAP contents; communicating with customers to obtain Customer PSW Approval.
Participate in the Simultaneous Development Team and communicate all quality deliverables to the team.
Ensure customer documentation requirements for each build phase are developed and actioned, coordinating with JIT Management to obtain the JIT resources needed.
Provide full support within the JIT plant during each new model build phase and, with the JIT Plant Quality Manager, ensure all quality deliverables are achieved.
Conduct supplier visits to assess status against APQP deliverables and ensure supplier processes meet Adient expectations.
Ensure Adient CCSC is conducted so all Critical Characteristics are controlled within the JIT facility, from defining critical characteristics according to DFMEA and drawings through Poka Yoke verification in the production facility.
Resolve customer and internally identified quality issues using Adient problem-solving methods, including 8D Reports, Problem Solving Documents (PSD), PCAD, and Kepner-Tregoe.
Ensure all quality activities comply with the latest Adient BOS, IATF 16949, and specific customer requirements.
Present quality project status at internal Launch Readiness Reviews and external customer reviews.

Desired Qualifications

Certification in Quality Engineering is a plus.
Lead or Internal Auditor training to IATF 16949 (TS 16949) is desirable.

JOB DESCRIPTION

Engineer Advanced Quality

What can you expect?

Adient (NYSE: ADNT) is a global leader in automotive seating. With more than 65,000 employees in 29 countries, Adient operates ~200 manufacturing/assembly plants worldwide. We produce and deliver automotive seating for all major OEMs. From complete seating systems to individual components, our expertise spans every step of the automotive seat-making process. We take our products from research and design to engineering and manufacturing — and into millions of vehicles every year. For more information, please visit www.adient.com

What will your responsibilities be?

To ensure that all Advanced Quality Requirements are met for New Model Launches as per the Adient “PLUS” (Product Launch System) including: -
- Ensuring Control Plans are prepared to meet Prototype, Pre-Production and Production requirements
- Completion of Appearance Manual to relevant Customer Standards
- Ensuring all gauging is validated and verified for production usage
- Ensuring all relevant Measurement and Capability data is conducted and data evaluated
- Ensuring IMDS compliance across all BOM items
- Conducting all Supplier APQP activities necessary in order to achieve Supplier PSW Approval
- Ensure Suppliers are conducting necessary DVP&R activities as part of PPAP
- Ensuring “Grain Go” and “Colour Harmony / AAR” events are held with the customer / supplier for approval of relevant components.
- Obtaining Supplier PPAP Approval
- Working with all necessary Adient Departments in order to generate the contents of the Customer PPAP
- Conducting all necessary communication with Customer in order to obtain
- Customer PSW Approval
To be part of the Simultaneous Development Team (SDT) and be responsible for communication of all Quality deliverables to this SDT.
Ensure all Customer documentation requirements for each Build Phase is developed and actioned – liaising with JIT Management for obtaining relevant JIT resource to meet this requirement.
Full support within JIT Plant during each New Model build phase and, in conjunction with JIT Plant Quality Manager, ensuring that all Quality deliverables are achieved.
Conducting Supplier Visits in order to determine status against APQP deliverables and to ensure that Supplier processes are approved to meet Adient expectations
Ensuring that Adient CCSC is conducted to ensure that ALL Critical Characteristics (CC) are fully controlled within JIT facility – from definition of CC’s as per DFMEA and Drawing through to Poka Yoke verification within the Production facility
Assure that customer and internally identified quality issues are resolved using the Adient problem solving methods (8D Report, Problem Solving Document “PSD”, PCAD, Kepner-Tregoe, etc.)
Ensure that all Quality activities are performed in accordance with the latest Adient BOS, IATF16949 and Specific Customer Requirements.
To present Quality Project status at both Internal Launch Readiness Reviews (LRR’s) and External Customer Reviews

Which qualifications are we looking for in potential employees?

BSc / BEng. degree is required or equivalent experience
Specific education and training in Quality disciplines including minimum IATF16949,
Continuous Improvement, APQP, PPAP, FMEA, Control plans, DOE and SPC
Minimum 4 years in the Automotive Industry
Minimum 2 years in Quality area
Knowledge of the AIAG Quality Manuals (APQP, PPAP, MSA, FMEA etc)
Manufacturing Quality system experience and customer communication activities
Certification in Quality Engineering a plus.
Lead or Internal auditor training to IATF16949 (TS16949) desirable
Fluent English
Willingness to travel

Adient is committed to equal employment opportunity, diversity and inclusion in the workplace. As a true global company, our leaders and employees come from various cultures across the world. Our diversity is a source of inspiration enabling us to achieve our goals and build an inclusive company culture.

We are looking forward to receiving your application including your salary expectations and your earliest availability date. If you have additional questions, please do not hesitate to contact Miroslav Luhovy on +421 32/741 30 58 .

PRIMARY LOCATION

Liverpool

About the Company

Adient

Designs, manufactures, and delivers automotive seating

Adient is a global leader in automotive seating, designing, manufacturing, and delivering seating systems and components for various vehicles. It uses a vertically integrated process from research and design to production, with more than 200 manufacturing and assembly plants across 29 countries, ensuring consistent quality and innovation. The company sells seating solutions to major automakers to differentiate vehicles through quality, technology, and performance, and it operates AdientDX to enable controlled data exchange across its supply chain. Its goal is to maintain leadership in automotive seating by delivering high-quality, scalable seating solutions with a global footprint and data-enabled operations.

Company size: 10,001+
Company stage: IPO
Headquarters: Plymouth Township, Michigan
Founded: 2015

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