
Quality Engineer
Lear · Auburn Hills, MI
- Level
- Engineer
- Team
- Quality
- Degree
- Required
- Industry
- Automotive
- Posted
- Recently
The role in 30 seconds
An engineer-level quality role at Lear (automotive) in Auburn Hills, MI. The Quality Engineer will be responsible for verifying incoming and outgoing materials conform to documented requirements, prepare incoming and outgoing inspection instructions, and ensuring that nonconforming material is segregated or moved to an area.
- They ask for
- degree required
- Tools it names
- Lean, Kaizen, Root cause, FMEA, PPAP, Control plans
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How this role compares
Against 51 other live quality postings in Michigan.
- Base pay
- Not listed in this posting
- Experience asked
- Not stated
Typical $78k–$149k, from 17 postings that list pay.
Similar roles usually ask 3+ years.
Skills these teams ask for most
- ✓ Root cause 73%
- ✓ FMEA 52%
- ✓ PPAP 48%
- ✓ Control plans 46%
- SPC 44%
- ✓ New product launch 40%
✓ = this posting asks for it too. % = share of similar postings that mention it.
Stands out: this posting asks for Kaizen, which few similar roles mention. If you have it, lead with it.
At a glance
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How to get in at this plant
Five moves over a week or two. The first one takes ten minutes.
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Pick 2–3 people on the Quality team at Lear
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Turn a reply into a short call
Questions worth asking about this team:
- What does a normal week look like on your team?
- Which standards drive the work here: ISO 13485, IATF 16949, AS9100?
- How much of the job is customer complaints versus prevention?
- How did you land the job? What stood out in your interviews?
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If the call went well, ask whether they’d pass your résumé to the hiring manager. Send your résumé link, apply that day, and let them know.
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Bring proof to the interview
One page of before-and-after numbers from projects you led: scrap, OEE, cycle time, cost. Plant managers hire on results.
This plant: Lear in Auburn Hills
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requirements
- ✓Support IATF Internal Intertek Audits as needed
- ✓Conduct a minimum of one Internal Audit per year
- ✓Maintain and develop all Control Plans, Process Flows & PFMEA’s in APiS with cross functional team
- ✓Schedule reverse PFMEA reviews and meetings
- ✓Create schedule and perform “Process Walks” on all product lines per schedule, cover all within 12 months (Based on Risk)
- ✓Perform and record monthly PFMEA RPN review with action item updates
- ✓EPC: Working in a cross functional team (Production & Quality) perform management review, develop, and implement EPC
requirements
for all new launches per production releases
- ✓Review data collected and communicate process control status, through run charts or pareto charts for non-conforming concerns
- ✓Provide plant support through problem solving and error-proofing for plant, customer issues and customer returns
- ✓Perform and report out capability studies on all critical torque, monthly
- ✓Perform GR&R and Capability studies as needed such as (appearance assessment, torque studies)
- ✓Review product audits and poke yoke data to assure Team Lead added to chart, on weekly basis and report out all non-conformances
- ✓Support Quality Coach duties as needed for all shifts
- ✓Lead and complete two continuous improvement Kaizen project per year, focused on reducing IPPM’S, Scrap or COPQ
- ✓Support supplier issues that arise from production line, using SQTS
- ✓Use SQTS for written complaints back to suppliers with QN and close QN’s in a timely manner
- ✓Support supplier sorts and containment activities as needed
- ✓Support corrective action 5-Phase / 8D’s on customer written complaints using but not limited to control plans and PFMEAS
- ✓Support customer issues to assure complete follow through for containment on all shifts, floor communications, and action to assure timely response
- ✓Support quality reviews for service as needed
- ✓Complete the 7 Quality Modules, requires a passing score
- ✓Review modules annually
- ✓Support LPOF, capture evidence and update spreadsheet as needed
- ✓Support lab and lab activities; h-point, scan, effort, and shaker
requirements
- ✓Schedule weekly LPA audits
- ✓Report all open corrective actions and open audits before the end of the week
- ✓Support prelaunch
requirements
(birth certificates, pictures, management review buy off documentation) as needed
- ✓Upload Monthly KPI’s in LQTS
- ✓Weekly marketplace KPI reviews
- ✓PPAP support as needed
- ✓Support the monitoring of all lines in preparation of IATF audit
- ✓Support BOM Audits as needed
Responsibilities
Your
Qualifications
- ✓Prior experience in automotive manufacturing
- ✓Bachelor’s degree in a related field
- ✓Knowledge of terminology pertaining to quality assurance as needed to respond to questions and provide oversight.
- ✓Knowledge of various functions of an automotive plant such as maintenance, quality, production control, operations, and materials as needed to determine how they are interrelated and oversee employees in the quality department
- ✓Ability to communicate effectively with suppliers, supervisors and co- workers at all levels in person and over the telephone.
Lear Corporation is committed to fair, merit‑based employment practices and equal opportunity.
Applicants must submit their resume for consideration using our applicant tracking system. Due to the high volume of applications received, only candidates selected for interviews will be contacted. Candidates must be legally authorized to work in the country where the position is located. Unsolicited resumes from search firms, employment agencies, or similar, will not be paid a fee and will become the property of Lear Corporation.
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Job Description
Auburn hills, mi
As a member of the Quality team, the Quality Engineer will be responsible for verifying incoming and outgoing materials conform to documented requirements, prepare incoming and outgoing inspection instructions, and ensuring that nonconforming material is segregated or moved to an area responsible for necessary repairs and then another inspection before use in a Lean manufacturing environment.
Your work will include, but not be limited to
- •Ensure calibration of all Quality equipment and the corresponding system records are maintained
- •Calibration log system and verify equipment & gauges meet all
