NPD Quality Engineer

The NPD Quality Engineer leads all Quality aspects of new product development, by influencing the customer, the Sensata development team (Design, Process, Program Management, etc.), and the Sensata Manufacturing team. The goal of the NPD Quality Engineer is to achieve flawless execution of product development. A successful NPD Quality Engineer possesses the following strengths: strong leadership, very pro-active, results oriented, strong follow-through, the ability to influence others, a strong technical understanding of Sensata’s products, a strong understanding of manufacturing processes, and the motivation and ability to independently reach across geographical and cultural boundaries to solve problems

General Responsibilities
• Analyze, solve and control production quality problems on time to meet the customer requirements
• In charge of Measurement System Analysis and Statistical Process Control for key processes
• Ensure a smooth and timely launch of new and changed products
• Coordinates customer returns and uses Sensata tools to provide frequent status updates to affected customers
• Work effectively with test, design, product and planning engineers, regional quality engineers, regional planners, regional technical sales representatives and marketing representatives to solve customer challenges and provide answers
• Key participant in project teams to ensure a successful launch of new products. It should be made clear what the customer expects and in detail elaborated how this can be achieved. After this process monitoring should take place on correct implementation
• Initiating improvement proposals serving cost of quality, turnaround time and quality of production
• May partner with line quality engineers and management teams in Layered Process Audits and internal audits. These audits ensure that manufacturing practices are followed
• Train and manage technicians and inspectors to make sure corrective actions implemented and operators follow-up
• Establish and follow procedure for control on non-conforming parts in production
• Handles all aspects of quality and continuous improvement across various customer groups
• Initiate improvement proposals serving cost of quality, turnaround time and quality of production
• Assisting clients during audits with the aim to come to a production release
• Demonstrate full ownership of product quality by driving all relevant functions towards 100% robustness in meeting specifications/performance requirements
• Facilitate Risk Management process in compliance to appropriate external standards and corporate policies
• Develop a customer satisfaction plan. Turn "voice of the customer" into user needs and quality goals
• Develop a strategy to manage specific customer accounts
• Lead customer quality issue resolution
• Work with customers to understand their specific requirements and then draft plans to fully satisfy their requirements
• Perform risk assessments
• Set quality goals and improvement plans
• Review Control Plans and improve as needed
• Develop a customer satisfaction plan
• Work with Production sites to drive manufacturing improvements
• Analyze data to identify concerns and respond to customers

Experience / Qualifications
• A university degree required (i.e. Bachelors degree) or equivalent relevant work experience
• Must be a team player able to work in a fast-paced environment with demonstrated ability to handle multiple competing tasks and demands
• Strong communication skills; oral, written and presentation
• Strong organization, planning and time management skills to achieve results
• Strong personal and professional ethical values and integrity
• Holds self-accountable to achieving goals and standards
• Proficient in Microsoft Office programs (Outlook, Word, PowerPoint, and Excel)
• Strong interpersonal & collaboration skills to work effectively with all levels of the organization including suppliers and/or external customers

Additioanl Skills/ Experience:

• Quality/ Risk Management and analysis  experience in APQP with FEMA, DFMEA, and PFMEA preferable
• Experience with Standards IS09001,  IATF 16949 , PPAP, AIAG preferable

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