Forvia, a sustainable mobility technology leader
At Forvia, we're pioneering the future of mobility, delivering innovative and sustainable solutions for the automotive industry. Our Simpsonville, KY seating plant is looking for a passionate and driven Plant Quality Engineer to join our dynamic team. If you have a strong background in quality engineering within a manufacturing environment and thrive in a fast-paced, collaborative setting, this is the opportunity for you!
Your mission, roles and responsibilities
As a Plant Quality Engineer, you will play a crucial role in ensuring the highest quality standards for our production lines, supporting both internal and external customer requirements. Your expertise in quality tools and methodologies will drive continuous improvements and uphold our commitment to delivering top-notch products.
You will represent Forvia and our customers, working cross-functionally to ensure quality is at the forefront of everything we do. From managing complaints to conducting audits and implementing process stability initiatives, your work will directly impact production efficiency and customer satisfaction.
Key Responsibilities:
Customer & Quality Representation: Act as the voice of the customer within the plant, ensuring that products meet quality standards and customer specifications.
Quality Documentation: Maintain and update quality documentation, ensuring consistency across PFMEA, control plans, and work instructions.
Training & Coaching: Lead quality training and coaching for operators, technicians, and supervisors on quality principles and customer-specific requirements.
Complaint Management: Resolve internal and external customer complaints using effective problem-solving tools like 8D.
Audit & Compliance: Conduct internal quality audits, support external audits, and ensure compliance with IATF 16949, ISO 9001, and customer requirements.
Process Stability: Implement quality tools like Poka-Yoke, gage studies, and capability studies to ensure stable and controlled processes.
Continuous Improvement: Drive process optimization and lead quality improvement initiatives.
Program Quality Support: Collaborate with the Program Quality Leader to ensure timely PPAP submissions for new programs and engineering changes.
Your profile and competencies to succeed
Experience: At least 3 years of experience in a quality engineering role within a manufacturing environment, preferably automotive. Hands-on expertise with quality system tools like FMEA, PPAP, MSA, SPC, and APQP.
Education: Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Business Management, or a related field (or equivalent work experience).
Certification: Preferred certifications in ISO 9001/IATF 16949, VDA, and core quality tools (PPAP, MSA, FMEA, APQP, SPC).
Skills: Strong problem-solving and analytical skills (e.g., Minitab, MS Office), excellent written and verbal communication, and the ability to analyze data and present results effectively.
Mindset: Proactive, customer-focused, with a passion for driving quality improvements and delivering results.
Leadership: Demonstrated ability to manage complexity and collaborate with diverse teams to achieve high-quality outcomes.
What we can do for you
At Forvia, you will find an engaging and dynamic environment where you can contribute to the development of sustainable mobility leading technologies.
We are the seventh-largest global automotive supplier, employing more than 157,000 people in more than 40 countries which makes a lot of opportunity for career development.
We welcome energetic and agile people who can thrive in a fast-changing environment. People who share our strong values. Team players with a collaborative mindset and a passion to deliver high standards for our clients. Lifelong learners. High performers. Globally minded people who aspire to work in a transforming industry, where excellence, speed, and quality count.
We cultivate a learning environment, dedicating tools and resources to ensure we remain at the forefront of mobility. Our people enjoy an average of more than 22 hours of online and in-person training within FORVIA University (five campuses around the world)
We offer a multicultural environment that values diversity and international collaboration. We believe that diversity is a strength. To create an inclusive culture where all forms of diversity create real value for the company, we have adopted gender diversity targets and inclusion action plans.
Achieving CO2 Net Zero as a pioneer of the automotive industry is a priority: In June 2022, Forvia became the first global automotive group to be certified with the new SBTI Net-Zero Standard (the most ambitious standard of SBTi), aligned with the ambition of the 2015 Paris Agreement of limiting global warming to 1.5°C. Three principles guide our action:?use less, use better?and?use longer, with a focus on recyclability and circular economy.
Why join us
FORVIA is an automotive technology group at the heart of smarter and more sustainable mobility. We bring together expertise in electronics, clean mobility, lighting, interiors, seating, and lifecycle solutions to drive change in the automotive industry.
With a history stretching back more than a century, we are the 7th largest global automotive supplier, employing more than 157,000 people in 43 countries. You'll find our technology in around 1 out of 2 vehicles produced anywhere in the world.
In June 2022, we became the 1st global automotive group to be certified with the SBTI Net-Zero Standard. We have committed to reach CO2 Net Zero by no later than 2045.
As technological innovation and the need for sustainability transform the automotive industry, we are ideally positioned to deliver solutions that will enhance the lives of road-users everywhere.