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Manufacturing Process Engineer - PPAP

Altair Engineering, Inc.
Michigan, MI Full Time
POSTED ON 12/10/2025
AVAILABLE BEFORE 2/10/2026

Transforming the Future with Convergence of Simulation and Data

Quality / Reliability Engineer General

Job Summary:

Our client in Dearborn, MI is looking for a Quality / Reliability Engineer General. This is a contract position.

What You Will Do:

  • Implement commodity-specific business plans to ensure your suppliers exceed all corporate launch, quality, capacity, warranty metrics, and vehicle delivery.
  • Lead cross-functional decisions with Our Client & Supplier leadership to drive resolution of open issues.
  • Implement actions to ensure zero vehicle losses from suppliers.
  • Principal for on-site troubleshooting and corrective actions for emergency supplier situations.
  • Lead adherence to Our Client´s standards (i.e.Q1).
  • Drive assessment & validation of manufacturing feasibility at identified supplier sites.
  • Execute the Production Part Approval Process (PPAP) and Advanced Quality Planning Process (APQP).
  • Use available data, metrics, and business plans to drive future sourcing decisions ensuring improved future quality.
  • Implement commodity-specific business plans to ensure your suppliers exceed all corporate launch, quality, capacity, warranty metrics, and vehicle delivery.
  • Lead on-site troubleshooting and corrective actions for emergency supplier situations. 

Basics:

  • Bachelor's Degree.
  • APQP.
  • Quality Management.
  • Problem Solving.
  • PPAP processes. 
  • 5 years’ experience in one or more, but not limited to the following manufacturing process: 
    • Casting, Machining, Forging, Stamping, Welding, Plastic/Rubber Molding, Brazing, Sintering, Automated/Manual Assembly Processes, Controls Automation programming, Paint, Chroming and SMC. 

How You Will Be Successful:

  • Envision the Future
  • Communicate Honestly and Broadly
  • Seek Technology and Business “First”
  • Embrace Diversity and Take Risks

What We Offer:

  • Competitive Salary
  • Comprehensive Benefit Package
  • 401(k) with matching contributions
  • Paid Time Off
  • Employee Discounts
  • Free training on all Altair products

Why Work with Us:

Altair is a global technology company providing software and cloud solutions in the areas of data analytics, product development, and high-performance computing (HPC). Altair enables organizations in nearly every industry to compete more effectively in a connected world, while creating a more sustainable future. With more than 3,000 engineers, scientists, and creative thinkers in 25 countries, we help solve our customer’s toughest challenges and deliver unparalleled service, helping the innovators innovate, drive better decisions, and turn today’s problems into tomorrow’s opportunities.

Our vision is to transform customer decision making with data analytics, simulation, and high-performance computing.

For more than 30 years, we have been helping our customers integrate electronics and controls with mechanical design to expand product value, develop AI, simulation and data-driven digital twins to drive better decisions, and deliver advanced HPC and cloud solutions to support unlimited idea exploration. To learn more, please visit altair.com

Ready to go? #ONLYFORWARD   

At our core we are explorers; adventures; pioneers. We are the brains behind some of the world’s most revolutionary innovations and are not only comfortable in new and unchartered waters, we dive headfirst. We are the original trailblazers that make the impossible possible, discovering new solutions to our customer’s toughest challenges.

Altair is an equal opportunity employer. Our backgrounds are diverse, and every member of our global team is critical to our success. Altair’s history demonstrations a belief that empowering each individual authentic voice reinforces a culture that thrives because of the uniqueness among our team.

 

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