EV Plant Quality Lead

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Job Duties and Responsibilities

– Adhering & promoting Dana Life Safety Rules (LSR’s)
– Adhering & promoting Dana Life Quality Rules (LQR’s)
– Lead EV plant DOS activities in relation to Quality requirements including auditing, actions, timing, responsibility, and KPI adherence.
– Lead and own Quality Improvement initiatives in identifying potential vehicle assembly Quality issues and recommend corrective action on QC and QA issues, using corrective action techniques (8D, 5 Why, PDCA, etc.) working with the SQA Engineer and customer where required.
– Lead scrap reduction reviews and resulting actions to impact Cost Of Poor Quality / FTT improvements.
– Contribute to/lead special projects as required or assigned in line with business objectives.
– Support the Quality Manager in participation/leading for Quality function at Diamond and accountability board meetings.
– Provide detailed statistical analysis of service processes and suggest changes as required.
– Monitor inspection and prepare reports and recommend actions to chronic issues.
– Interface with manufacturing, process, and product engineering to support quality and general initiatives, protect product design intent and function, and assist in the development of solutions to manufacturing constraints.
– Explore production, quality, and customer concerns using practical problem-solving reports and other advanced problem-solving techniques (Shainin / RedX, DMAIC, Kaizen, 8D).
– Collect data as required, pareto top concerns, identify and report on the root causes with supportive data, and recommend solutions to manufacturing operations and/or product engineering to correct the problem.
– Adhere to, apply when required, and endorse use of Stop/Call/Fix.
– Participate in Fast Response Board completion of confirmed Dana liability concerns.
– Manage and control any containment activities internally and externally as required.
– Manage on-site 3rd party inspection company, work prioritization, output quality, value for money, and professional conduct.
– Directly communicate with suppliers and customers on internal/customer quality issues where required.
– Make studies and recommendations for future product improvements.
– Work on solving production quality issues on the Assembly line.
– Work on root cause/troubleshooting of quality issues/warranty issues.
– Perform line audits, end of line audits, LPA and Control Plan audits, Reverse FMEA activities.
– Work on continuous improvement of quality systems.

Education

Associates or Bachelor’s Degree (preference).

Experience

• 5+ years related professional experience.

Language Skills

• English (fluency in reading, writing, and speaking).

Additional Skills

• Excellent analytical, problem-solving, oral, written, and team skills.

Join our team of 40,000 problem solvers who are fostering a culture of innovation by leveraging the diverse perspectives of our global team. We believe in facing challenges head-on by finding opportunity and uncovering possibility, where roadblocks and barriers become targets instead of obstacles. We are One Dana with limitless opportunity.

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