Mechanical Engineering Expert - Global Quality Role at Flex in Farmington Hills, Michigan

Job Description:

Flex is a leading sketch-to-scale™ solutions company that designs and builds intelligent products for a connected world. With more than 200,000 professionals across 30 countries and a promise to help make the world Live Smarter™, the company provides innovative design, engineering, manufacturing, real-time supply chain insight and logistics services to companies of all sizes in various industries and end-markets. For more information please visit our careers page at www.flex.com. 

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  Industry: Electrical / Electronic Manufacturing


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  Type: Public Company


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  NASDAQ: FLEX


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  Headquarters: 2 Changi South Lane, Singapore, 486123


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  Company Size: 10,001+ employees


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  Website: www.flex.com
  

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Job Description

The Mechanical Engineering Expert- Global Quality Role will be based in Farmington Hills, Michigan. The Mechanical Engineer Expert- Global Quality Role will be responsible for developing, implementing, driving and verifying effectiveness and re-creating breakthrough where necessary a global supplier quality strategy for continuous quality improvement of the suppliers and processes to meet customer expectation and to improve customer satisfaction for selected major accounts. Assist in mechanical part design and release, together with design team

We are looking for someone who demonstrates:

• Intense collaboration


• Passionate customer focus


• Thoughtful, fast, disciplined execution


• Tenacious commitment to continuous improvement


• Relentless drive to win
   

Here is a glimpse of what you’ll do:

• Identify and routinely uses the most effective, cost efficient and best practices to execute processes and continually evaluates their effectiveness and appropriateness


• Evaluate and verify supplier process controls and supplier quality systems, analyze product failures, facilitate writing and/or approve results of corrective actions of suppliers


• Exercise judgment in planning, organizing, performing, coordinating, directing and/or applying engineering and scientific principles to the evaluation and solution of technical issues at suppliers


• Review and update procedures and practices relating to part quality, design, fit and function to improve Flextronics product quality and reliability


• Perform and/or support audits of critical suppliers regularly in order to ensure their compliance with ISO 9001 and/or IATF 16949 requirements and other relevant quality standards. Responsible to coordinate audit activities with support of regional functions, when necessary


• Organize and lead quality/technical workshops for suppliers to resolve and prevent specific quality issues. In-depth understanding of the supplier manufacturing processes when issues occurred


•  Participate and coordinate multi-disciplinary teams including the automotive sites, suppliers and customer in understanding the magnitude of the issue and define together with the team corrective actions that are needed


• Implement and manage all developed automotive supplier management procedures for the selected accounts


• Conduct quality system and quality engineering training at supplier manufacturing facilities as required to achieve compliance and improvement


• Must have a thorough knowledge Automotive QMS System and input all Quality Audit Reports and 8Ds into Global Audit.


• Prepare and report global supplier quality performance during Management Reviews, as well as establishing baseline for supplier monitoring and performances


• Work with Regional Quality Engineering Managers and Regional/Site Quality Managers to help automotive manufacturing sites improve the quality of supplied parts

Here is some of what you’ll need (required):

• Minimal of 5 years’ experience in die casting and injection molding


• Technical degree (Mechanical Engineering, Automotive Engineering or similar field)


• Experience in HPDC and Injection Molding is mandatory, CNC machining and assembly is a plus


• Familiarity with automotive industry standards, production and parts supply


• Experienced in mass production manufacturing, from new product introduction to industrialization and product phase out (APQP)


• Processes, quality and yield optimization to eliminate waste, reduce scrap and increase productivity while ensuring the quality, cost, delivery model is met


• Knowledge of FMEA, MSA, Control Plan, CP/CPK

Here are a few examples of what you’ll get for the great work you provide:

• Full range of medical benefits, dental, vision


• Life Insurance


• Matching 401K


• PTO


• Tuition Reimbursement


• Employee discounts at local retailers

Job Category

Relocation

Is Sponsorship Available?

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