Quality Assurance Specialist

Job Title: Quality Assurance Specialist
Job Category (FLSA): Hourly

Job Purpose:
Support Plant Santa Teresa, NM in the following areas: 

Managing incoming, process, quarantine, and customer service to ensure adherence to quality standards and to achieve company objectives through expertise in product and process administration. Interact with internal and corporate management teams and maintain customer relations.

Education and/or Experience Qualifications:

• High School diploma or equivalent
• 2 years of experience in a PPAP coordinator position
• Access training
• IMDS (Material Data System) Training or at least 2 years of experience
• AIAG (Automotive Industry Action Group) Standard Training or at least 2 years of experience
• Bilingual preferred
• Strong organizational skills
• Strong interpersonal communication skills for customer and supplier interactions
• Flexibility in work assignments
• Microsoft Access report writing skills
• Multitasking capabilities

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Coordinate all APQP, PPAP, and IMDS activities to ensure readiness for new business/products and compliance with on-time delivery of documentation. Maintain quality metrics and communicate with all plant associates.
• Oversee 100% of all new part numbers for plant Santa Teresa.
• Prepare and submit PPAP packages for customers.
• Coordinate testing activities with the Corporate Lab for new products.
• Schedule and lead APQP meetings for new programs and significant changes.
• Maintain APQP documentation, including control plans, PFMEA, and process flow charts.
• Input IMDS information into the IMDS website or customer-designated format.
• Conduct internal audits to IATF 16949 standards.
• Schedule and perform internal calibrations, and arrange for external outsourced calibrations.
• Coordinate and update Quality month-end metrics.
• Review and approve all supplier PPAP packages.
• Conduct company-wide document control processes under the direction of the quality manager.
• Halt shipment and production to rectify quality issues.
• Maintain awareness of environmental aspects and impacts.
• Report any product inconsistencies or nonconformances and participate in the corrective/preventive actions process.
• Authorized to halt shipment and production to address quality problems.

Our client is an equal opportunity employer that is committed to diversity and inclusion in the workplace. They prohibit discrimination and harassment of any kind based on race, color, sex, religion, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, or any other protected characteristic as outlined by federal, state, or local laws.