
Quality Engineer
Stoneridge
Quality Engineer
Stoneridge is seeking a Quality Engineer to lead quality assurance efforts across multiple customers and production lines in Barneveld. The role involves acting as the primary customer quality contact, overseeing product conformity, leading audits, and resolving claims. Requires 3-5 years of quality engineering experience in the automotive industry with expertise in PPAP, 8D, and data analysis.
Quality Engineer
Stoneridge is seeking a Quality Engineer to lead quality assurance efforts across multiple customers and production lines in Barneveld. The role involves acting as the primary customer quality contact, overseeing product conformity, leading audits, and resolving claims. Requires 3-5 years of quality engineering experience in the automotive industry with expertise in PPAP, 8D, and data analysis.
Salary
Core Qualifications
Technical (Must-have)
Soft Skills
Key Responsibilities
- Serve as the primary quality contact for multiple customers.
- Lead regular meetings to review quality performance, concerns, and action plans.
- Provide prompt and effective claim responses for customer inquiries and complaints.
- Ensure conforming products are produced on one or more production lines.
- Work with production teams to resolve quality issues and ensure product specifications are met.
- Lead the resolution of customer claims and production line issues.
- Quarantine goods at customer sites and manage outgoing goods with quality concerns.
- Engage cross-functional teams to implement corrective actions.
- Plan and execute product audits to ensure compliance with quality standards.
- Escalate major nonconformities to the Quality Manager.
- Lead customer audits at the production site.
- Coordinate and prepare for customer audits, providing necessary documentation and data.
- Make decisions on stopping and restarting production in the event of quality issues.
- Supervise and support the daily activities of Quality Inspectors.
- Provide training, guidance, and feedback to Quality Inspectors.
- Support new product launches and product changes from a quality perspective.
- Oversee PPAP submissions.
- Participate in customer communication, quality performance, change management, and product launch meetings.
- Download and review customer scorecards and verify quality status.
- Upload quality performance and change management documentation as required.
- Lead 8D management for customer complaints.
- Analyze and report on quality performance data (MSA, CPK, FTQ, scrap rates).
- Support production assurance efforts.