Corporate APQP Senior Quality Engineer - Southfield, MI

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As a member of the Quality team, the Corporate APQP Senior Quality Engineer will be responsible for program interface between the Customer and Lear on pre-production activities, including managing Customer APQP Launch activities to assure timely completion. The APQP SQE will be responsible to understand customer requirements, provide Program Launch support cross-functionally, interface with Engineering to verify compliance to LPMP milestones, and ensure plant APQP/Quality is working to achieve milestones.

The Role:
Your work will include, but not be limited to:

• Participates in all product development and launch activities (including program management system-specific actions) which includes the identification of customer expectations, manufacturing, and ongoing production test support.
• Support launching facilities as required in all aspects of Plant and Program readiness before/during pre-production build events.
• Serves as  interface for the Quality organization between Engineering, Program, and Plant teams.
• Monitor Profile/LPMP management and drive/enforce adherence to LPMP deliverable standards.
• Lead Appearance Manual development, craftsmanship audits and communicate any supplier quality issue through pre-production build events.  Ensure design/manufacturing issues are properly documented, communicated at manufacturing feasible levels, and read across to all applicable facilities.
• Support and/or interface with Lear internal quality teams supporting the business unit customers in different regions globally.
• Document, Monitor and Verify the effective implementation and Read Across of Launch, Quality, Warranty, and Customer Lessons Learned across all applicable facilities.
• Perform Post-Launch Lessons Learned Analysis and lead, verify effective read across of those items across all future launches.
• Develop, Manage and Execute a Roadmap to Customer Satisfaction across all applicable facilities.
• Help train and develop plant QE/APQP engineers in customer APQP requirements, this will include the managing of PPAP and IMDS timing and escalation where required 
• AND MORE...