Quality Engineer

• Open & Manage PC.0s: Initiate, log, and drive PC.0 records for all defects meeting recurrence, station downtime, high-severity, or gate-escape criteria.
• Lead Shop-Floor RCCA: Conduct hands-on Root Cause Corrective Action (RCCA) investigations at the build station alongside technicians, engineers, and suppliers using 5-Why, Fishbone (Ishikawa), and 5D/8D methodologies.
• Drive Permanent Corrective Actions: Develop and implement robust engineering, tooling, vendor, or process fixes that prevent defect recurrence across both Bronco and Fastback lines.
• CAPA & NC Lifecycle Tracking: Maintain real-time accuracy of open PC.0s, Nonconformances (NCs), action owners, and target closure dates across SharePoint, JIRA, and quality management dashboards.
• Effectiveness Verification: Audit completed PC.0 corrective actions on subsequent vehicle builds to verify sustained effectiveness before formal closure.

• Act as the Floor Early-Warning System: Immediately "sound the alarm" when a critical defect, systemic trend, or line-stopping issue emerges—halting the affected process and initiating a formal Quality Hold on suspect parts or assemblies.
• Author Visual Quality Alerts: Create clear, highly visual Quality Alerts (with clear 'Good vs. Bad' photos, defect descriptions, and inspection criteria) within hours of defect discovery.
• Execute Stand-Up Briefings & Sign-Offs: Deliver at-station briefings to Station Leads, builders, and Quality Technicians for every issued Quality Alert; capture mandatory training sign-offs before build continuation.
• Audit Daily Alert Compliance: Verify that active Quality Alerts are integrated into daily station inspection logs and signed off every day at each applicable station.

• Real-Time Station Triage: Provide immediate technical support to Quality Supervisors and Quality Technicians when evaluating complex build discrepancies, older part revisions, or cosmetic/mechanical tolerances.
• Enforce EOD Station & Repair Validation: Support floor leadership in ensuring all station inspections, rework log validations, and VCC checklist requirements are completed and verified on time every day.
• Incoming & Vendor Defect Escalation: Partner with Incoming Inspection to evaluate non-conforming vendor components (e.g., chrome/powder-coated bumpers, soft tops, shocks, glass, trim), Quarantine/NC-tag defective stock, and drive supplier corrective actions.
• Error-Proofing (Poka-Yoke) & COPQ Reduction: Analyze daily defect trends, rework hours, and warranty feedback to drive poka-yoke fixtures, clearer build standards, and reductions in Cost of Poor Quality (COPQ).

QUALIFICATIONS & FLOOR COMPETENCIES