Project Quality Engineer.

Job Description

Role Summary

Company: MANN+HUMMEL

Location: Dunlap, TN

As a Project Quality Engineer with MANN+HUMMEL, you will lead quality assurance efforts within customer development projects, ensuring compliance with both customer-specific and internal quality requirements from project initiation to closure. You will develop and implement robust control plans, provide transparency on quality status, and coordinate problem-solving processes to achieve timely customer PPAP approval.

Main Tasks

Key Responsibilities

Serve as the Quality representative in customer development projects from project approval to closure, leading interactions with the customer’s quality representative throughout the APQP process. Develop and implement robust control plans for various project phases, up to serial production, ensuring compliance with customer-specific and internal quality requirements. Provide transparency on project quality status to the project team, Steering Committee, and OE Quality Organization, and initiate escalation processes if quality targets are not met. Act as an expert and coach on APQP tools within the project team, holding the authority to halt processes or product delivery in case of serious non-conformance. Support the development of D-FMEAs and P-FMEAs with quality-related input, and align customer and internal drawings with engineering and metrology to ensure specifications are feasible for production. Assist in establishing design and production validation plans, execute validation tests, and define and implement gauges and measurement fixtures for serial production. Ensure correct execution and documentation of all dimensional measurements throughout project phases, and maintain responsibility for the conformity of parts delivered to the customer up to PPAP. Support R&D in defining requalification requirements in control plans and act as the internal quality interface for the Supplier Quality Engineer to communicate requirements. Coordinate customer product and process releases during all project phases, lead problem-solving processes for customer claims or internal deviations before full PPAP approval, and oversee the handover process to plant CQE, ensuring proper application of quality controls for serial production. In global projects, manage PQE tasks for project phases 0 to 3, involve local PQEs in respective subprojects, hand over responsibility from phase 4 onwards, and ensure compliance with quality standards. Participate in creating global D-FMEAs and master P-FMEAs for common part families, develop a global Control Plan Concept, and supervise its implementation at local sites. Coordinate input from all local PQEs on drawings and measurement strategies, and act as the point of contact with the customer for global quality where required. Provide input on APQP/PPAP requirements for common Tier 2 parts, support achieving project milestones in all local subprojects, and coordinate the implementation of quality-related lessons learned.

Your Profile

Education and Experience:

University degree (bachelor or master) in engineering. At least 2 years of department supervision and management experience. CQE (Certified Quality Engineer) certification preferred.

Skills:

Experience with quality engineering (APQP procedures, 8D systematic, control plan, capability analysis, MSA, SPC, FMEA, PRFPP Poka Yoke, etc.). Understanding of IATF requirements, VDA or AIAG standards. Familiarity with technical drawings, problem-solving techniques, and related software (MS Office, Q-DAS, IQ-FMEA, SAP). Knowledge of customer PPAP procedures and requirements. Experience with process and system audits. Experience in the automotive industry, particularly in practical mass production a plus. Relevant process experience (e.g., plastic injection, plastic welding, assembly, end-of-line test). Strong customer focus and technical change management. Ability to make timely decisions with a continuous improvement mindset. Effective conflict management and analytical thinking. Proficiency in problem-solving and application of lessons learned.

We offer

Benefits:

Competitive salary commensurate with experience. Comprehensive benefits package, including health insurance, retirement plans, and paid time off. Opportunities for career advancement and professional growth within a global organization. A dynamic and inclusive work environment that fosters creativity, collaboration, and innovation.

Join MANN+HUMMEL and be part of a team that is shaping the future of filtration technology. Apply now to embark on a rewarding career with MANN+HUMMEL

Are you full of ideas? Are you keen to take on responsibility and really achieve something? Then our doors are open to you. This company lives out its values, gives people the freedom to use their own initiative, and offers many development exciting opportunities and many exciting projects – all of which awaits you here.

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