Engineer - APQP (LFP)

Purpose of the Role

As Quality Project Engineer, you'll be responsible for both developing and executing our advanced product quality planning (APQP) activities for specific products at Agratas. You will be part of a culturally diverse and highly professional global quality engineering team and will interface heavily with many parts of the business, most notably product engineering, process engineering and project management functions, as well as with the customer. You will co-ordinate, execute and evaluate APQP deliverables, maintaining a single source of the truth of quality in the pre-SOP phase for a specific component group

Key Responsibility Areas

• Representing Quality & the “voice of the customer” in the development of product and processes in the industrialization of products.
• Ensuring the Agratas APQP framework is integrated into the master project plan.
• Executing the Agratas APQP framework in assigned projects and regularly reporting the project quality status.
• Facilitating cross-functional teams during the development of deliverables through the APQP process – e.g. Process flows, FMEA, Control plan etc.
• Utilising lessons learnt during product development processes to ensure continuous improvement of our Quality deliverables.

Evaluating and reporting the output of APQP deliverables, acting as a checker to ensure both correctness and completeness of artefacts as well as supporting the interconnection between interdependent APQP elements.

Completing Change Management Impact Assessments and performing Problem Management Governance.

Reporting on product development process overall status, key risks and opportunities.

Knowledge Generic

• 3+ year’s experience in the execution and development of APQP, ideally at a Tier 1 Automotive Supplier.
• Experience in developing new processes or heavily optimising existing processes.
• Experience in customer engagement teams.
• Educated to Degree level in an Engineering or Quality related subject.
• Experience In The Automotive Industry, preferably In a Tier 1 Supplier Environment.

Job Context

• Preferred: Change Management Impact Assessments and Problem Management Governance
• Preferred: Certified 6 sigma Green Belt.
• Preferred: Core Tools Certified (APQP, FMEA, SPC, MSA, PPAP / Control Plan)
• Preferred: Experience with SharePoint, PowerApps and Power BI.
• Nice to have: Experience in a start-up environment.

Job Context Specific

Knowledge Specific