Design/Launch Quality Engineer Chennai, Pune · Full-time · Hybrid
About the Role The Design/Launch Quality Engineer will support vehicle launches for Body & Interior sub-systems, achieving program quality targets across all milestones. This role involves driving issue resolution and quality convergence activities, collaborating with various teams, and ensuring successful launch execution. Success in this role means effective launch quality management, timely issue resolution, and collaboration with cross-functional teams.
Key Responsibilities
- Support vehicle launches by achieving program quality targets DPVA, DPVF, and DPVW across all milestones.
- Drive issue resolution and quality convergence activities through structured problem-solving methodologies such as 5D, 8D.
- Review engineering drawings, GD&T requirements, and dimensional reports to evaluate product conformity and support tolerance stack-up assessments.
- Collaborate closely with Design, Manufacturing, Supplier Quality, Production, and Program Management teams to ensure successful launch execution.
- Lead investigations and coordinate containment, corrective, and preventive actions for issues identified during prototype, pilot, pre-series, and production builds.
- Support manufacturing plants during trial builds, pilot builds, and Start of Production (SOP) by identifying assembly, fitment, dimensional, and quality concerns.
- Monitor vehicle fit-and-finish, dimensional compliance, gap & flush targets, and functional performance during launch phases.
- Validate conformity of critical parts and supplier deliverables through audits, inspections, build events, and quality reviews.
- Track launch-related quality metrics, open issues, supplier concerns, and escalation actions to ensure timely closure.
- Coordinate cross-functional reviews to assess launch readiness and mitigate risks impacting quality, timing, or production stability.
- Generate and present launch quality dashboards, KPI reports, risk assessments, and management status updates.
- Support engineering change management activities and assess the impact of design changes on product conformity, manufacturing processes, and supplier readiness.
- Lead supplier issue escalation and recovery plans for critical launch-related quality concerns.
Requirements
- Have a Bachelor’s Degree in Mechanical / Automobile / Production Engineering or related discipline.
- Possess 6 to 8 years of experience.
- Have root cause analysis skills.
- Be proficient in problem-solving methodologies.
- Have knowledge of GD&T (Tolerance Stack up analysis).
- Have experience in vehicle launch activities.
- Have technical knowledge on commodities - Instrument panel/Console, Door trims, Soft trims, Bumpers, etc.
- Be familiar with engineering change management.
- Have experience in part validation.
- Have experience in supplier process audit.
- Have knowledge of dimensional convergence.
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