Quality Engineer

Overall responsibilities and duties:

We are looking for a Plant Quality Engineer to support customer satisfaction and plant quality performance by ensuring compliance with FORVIA Quality Systems, IATF 16949 requirements, customer-specific requirements, and electronics manufacturing standards. This role will drive quality improvements, manage customer concerns, support new product launches, and lead problem-solving activities to ensure robust production processes and defect prevention.

• Ensure implementation and compliance of FORVIA Quality System, IATF 16949 standards, customer-specific requirements, and internal quality procedures within the plant.
• Act as the customer representative within the plant, ensuring timely response and resolution of customer complaints, quality concerns, and warranty issues.
• Lead customer and internal problem-solving activities using QRQC, 8D, 5 Why, Ishikawa, and other structured methodologies.
• Support APQP activities and coordinate customer PPAP submissions, including changes related to product, process, engineering modifications, and transfer projects.
• Maintain and update quality documents, including Control Plans, PFMEA, Work Instructions, Inspection Standards, and Quality Alerts.
• Work closely with Production, Manufacturing Engineering, Process Engineering, and Supply Chain teams to drive continuous quality improvement and defect reduction.
• Monitor customer-specific portals and quality performance indicators, ensuring timely actions and closure of customer issues.
• Lead containment activities, Quality Walls, sorting activities, stop shipment decisions, and escalation processes when required.
• Analyze quality data, customer returns, warranty claims, scrap, rework, and line reject trends to identify root causes and implement corrective actions.
• Support internal, customer, and certification audits, ensuring effective implementation of corrective and preventive actions.
• Coach and train operators, technicians, team leaders, and supervisors on quality standards, customer requirements, and quality tools.
• Ensure compliance with FORVIA Code of Ethics, Code of Management, and all applicable company policies.

Qualifications

The ideal candidate will have/be:

Minimum education level:  Bachelor's Degree in Engineering, Electronics Engineering, Industrial Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Manufacturing Engineering, or related fields.

Experience:

• Minimum 3-5 years of experience in Quality Engineering within the Automotive Electronics, EMS, Electronics Manufacturing, or Automotive industry.
• Experience working with OEM customer requirements and customer quality management.

Skills and competencies

• Strong knowledge of APQP, PPAP, PFMEA, Control Plan, MSA, SPC, and problem-solving methodologies.
• Familiarity with IATF 16949, Core Tools, and customer-specific requirements.
• Experience in electronics manufacturing processes such as SMT, PCB Assembly, Testing, or Final Assembly is preferred.
• Ability to analyze quality data and drive corrective actions through cross-functional teams.
• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills.
• Good English communication, both written and spoken.
• Self-driven, proactive, and capable of working effectively in a matrix organization and international environment.

The Employee is aware and ensures the respect of the Internal Rules, Code of Ethics and Management Code applicable in the establishment to which she/he is assigned.

As an employee, you are also required to:

• Secure internal control with the support of financial controller and finance network
• Abide by the Faurecia Code of Ethics. The code is summarised as below:
• Respect for fundamental rights.
• Development of economic and social dialogue.
• Development of skills.
• Ethics and business conduct.

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