Advance Quality Engineer Lead

Tasks Summary & Responsibilities.

Provide leadership to the AQE team by building a talented and strong team through coaching and supporting the AQE's located in the different global regions, as well as providing local AQE support to the engineering team.
Overall responsibility to eliminate quality problems during the product and process design phase and ensuring the product launch with zero impact.
Gate keeper for the PAC member swrt to the development process (LEANPD) by reviewing deliverables and the quality of these deliverables
Assurance that product quality objectives and customer requirements are met by establishing and executing continuous improvement strategies.
Act as quality interface until the formal product and process release is achieved for all customers, keeping track of customer specific quality requirements and assuring conformance.
Works closely with Design Engineering on new product development projects: Oversight of planning and conducting activities for the analysis, inspection, design, test and/or integration of products and processes to assure the quality requirements are fulfilled.
Give input for continuous improvement strategies to support the organization's manufacturing quality and cost reduction goals
Formulates and maintains quality objectives in coordination with corporate policies and goals.

Professional Experience

3+ years' experiencewith demonstrated process improvement success.
Proven accomplishments utilizing Lean tools/methodologies and Six Sigma tools (deep knowledge of APQP, QFD, DOE, GR&R, FMEA, etc.)
Clear understanding of quality deliverables in a stage gated development process (LEANPD)

Special Qualifications, Knowledge & Skills

Thorough knowledge of LEANPD, problem solving and corrective action implementation, statistical analysis techniques, and design reviews.
Strong ability to link customer needs and business processes.
Demonstrated ability to motivate all levels of the organization.
Strong team formation skills on a global basis.
Strong project management skills.
Excellent oral and written communication skills.
Six Sigma certification (pref Black Belt) enabling support for Structured Problem Solving, 5S, Mistake-Proofing and process capability tools; statistical analysis, APQP.

Skills : APQP,QFD,DOE,FMEA,Six Sigma,Black Belt,Quality Engineer