What are the responsibilities and job description for the Quality Engineer-Reliability E2 position at Yamaha Motor Corporation, USA?
Job code: 9943222
Job Family: Engineer
Position Summary
Job Responsibilities:
Education / Experience:
Job Family: Engineer
Position Summary
- Design, plan, and supervise; develop and implement improved ways to extract, process, and use raw materials
- Develop new materials that both improve the performance of products and take advantage of advances in technology
- Analyze the impact of the products they develop or the systems they design on the environment and on people using them
- Determine the causes of breakdowns
- Test manufactured products to maintain quality
- Estimate the time and cost to complete projects.
Job Responsibilities:
- Analyze warranty trend of the vehicles, develop Table B and identify the warranty history as Lessons Learned.
- Develop and manage Design PFEMA to apply the Lesson Learned from the warranty history into the new model launch in Pilot production.
- Close working relationship with Product Design Department is required.
- Maintain a monitor vehicle program to ensure quick feedback from field environment on potential market issues or concerns and for future recommended new model improvements.
- Perform high volume data collection from the market information.
- Analyze data to identify the market trend in the area of market claim type and expenses etc.
- Manage cross-functional team members systematically to perform root cause analysis of the quality problems identified during analysis and market information (MI) reports.
- Manage cross-functional team members to take corrective actions, using the corrective action system, quality alert bulletins, and/or problem solving sheets.
- Monitor countermeasures and market trend to track effectiveness of the corrective actions.
- Act as a liaison between YMMC, YGC, YMUS and YAMAHA dealer networks.
- Coordinate and present the warranty quality status on monthly basis to management members (YMMC, YMUS, YGC, YMC etc.), and request for support if there are any bottlenecks identified.
- Develop disposition plan and coordinate the cross functional members to execute disposition of the suspect vehicles, such as external sort or repair.
Education / Experience:
- 4-year college degree in technical field such as mechanical or industrial engineering with 3-5 years experience or 8-10 experience in lieu of degree
- Must be able to handle multiple projects at the same time with timely and accurate conclusions.
- Perform various tasks for a variety of different levels of management.
- Must be able to communicate ideas and propose quality kaizens effectively.
- Technical program management experience is strongly preferred.
- Minimum of 3 years experience in supervisory position is preferred.
- Working knowledge of ISO 9001 is preferred.