Quality Engineer

AP Emissions Technologies

As a part of the global industrial organization Marmon Holdings—which is backed by Berkshire Hathaway— you’ll be doing things that matter, leading at every level, and winning a better way. We’re committed to making a positive impact on the world, providing you with diverse learning and working opportunities, and fostering a culture where everyone’s empowered to be their best.

AP Emissions Technologies provides aftermarket emissions and exhaust solutions for all vehicle classes. With nearly a century of innovation and integrated manufacturing, AP delivers OEM-quality performance, regulatory compliance, and broad product coverage worldwide.

What You’ll Do

As the Quality Engineer, you’ll serve as the site quality leader for AP Emissions Technologies’ new 208,000-square-foot manufacturing facility in Apex, NC. Reporting to the Plant General Manager, you’ll establish and lead the quality management system from equipment commissioning and product launch through stable production across ceramic substrate manufacturing, catalyst coating, and automated assembly.

You’ll own site readiness for ISO-based certification requirements, customer-specific quality expectations, product and process controls, audits, corrective action, and continuous improvement. You’ll work closely with operations, engineering, supply chain, R&D, customers, and suppliers to build quality into the operation from the ground up.

• •Establish and maintain the site quality management system in alignment with corporate requirements, ISO 9001, applicable regulations, and the roadmap toward IATF 16949 readiness or certification.
• •Lead certification, surveillance, customer, corporate, and internal audits, including preparation, findings, corrective actions, document control, records, and management-review inputs.
• •Translate quality standards and customer-specific

• •Lead quality readiness for equipment, processes, suppliers, and products, including APQP, PFMEA, control plans, MSA, capability studies, validation, PPAP, and safe-launch controls as applicable.
• •Partner with R&D, engineering, automation, and operations to define critical-to-quality characteristics, validate process windows, and approve changes across substrate forming, thermal treatment, catalyst coating, and assembly.
• •Establish and maintain incoming, in-process, final-inspection, testing, traceability, calibration, sampling, nonconforming-material, and product-release controls.
• •Analyze yield, scrap, rework, capability, defects, returns, and warranty data to identify opportunities and lead containment and corrective actions.
• •Drive improvements that strengthen quality, cost, delivery, and process stability.

• •Serve as the primary site quality contact for customer requirements, complaints, scorecards, audits, launch reviews, and escalations.
• •Communicate quality risks, containment actions, corrective actions, and recovery plans to customers and internal stakeholders.
• •Lead structured root-cause analysis and supplier quality improvement efforts, verifying corrective-action effectiveness and preventing recurrence.
• •Develop quality technicians, inspectors, laboratory personnel, and cross-functional teams in defect prevention, inspection, and problem-solving.
• •Report quality KPIs, customer metrics, cost of poor quality, capability, and corrective-action effectiveness.
• •Champion quality at the source and a culture of continuous improvement across the facility.

What You’ll Need

• •Deep working knowledge of ISO 9001 quality management systems; practical knowledge of IATF 16949 and automotive customer-specific

• •Ability to build and implement quality systems in a start-up manufacturing environment.
• •Strong data-driven judgment and problem-solving skills with the ability to make decisions under changing conditions.
• •Credible customer-facing communicator who can lead audits, manage escalations, and balance quality, delivery, and cost.
• •Hands-on shop-floor leader with strong organization, influence, and follow-through.
• •Ability to work effectively across operations, engineering, supply chain, R&D, customers, and suppliers.

What You’ll Gain

• •Build the quality function and management system for a brand-new 208,000-square-foot manufacturing facility.
• •Have a direct impact on product quality, process stability, customer satisfaction, and the successful launch of the operation.
• •Help establish the quality culture, processes, and standards that will support the facil