Bring your quality expertise to a fast-paced manufacturing environment where you’ll help ensure products released to service meet design intent, performance expectations, and documentation requirements. This fully onsite role offers the opportunity to work cross-functionally with engineering, manufacturing, supplier quality, and fleet operations to strengthen quality processes and drive meaningful continuous improvement.

Responsibilities

• Track quality issues, coordinate containment actions, and support root cause analysis and corrective actions for nonconformances found during production audits and vehicle release activities.
• Assist with diagnosing noise, vibration, and harshness concerns identified during quality audits and release processes, including helping define inspection methods and required tools.
• Lead and support continuous improvement efforts that make production quality audits, release processes, and issue resolution more effective and efficient.
• Partner with supplier quality, manufacturing, and vehicle development teams to resolve systemic product and process issues.
• Support the development and review of PFMEA and control plans to help strengthen risk mitigation across critical manufacturing processes.
• Communicate technical findings clearly and drive issues through to closure with the right stakeholders.

Skills

• Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical, Manufacturing, or Industrial Engineering.
• 4 to 6 years of experience in a manufacturing environment, preferably in automotive, aviation, or contract manufacturing.
• Strong background in advanced problem-solving methodologies such as Shainin Red X or Six Sigma.
• Demonstrated ability to improve quality across the value stream through structured, data-driven problem solving.
• Excellent organizational, analytical, negotiation, interpersonal, decision-making, and communication skills.
• Ability to work independently, manage priorities, and meet tight deadlines.

Preferred Skills

• Experience in automotive OEM or Tier 1 supplier environments.
• Familiarity with quality management and ERP systems such as SAP, MES, or JIRA for data analysis and reporting.
• ASQ certification, such as Certified Quality Engineer (CQE) or Six Sigma Black Belt.
• Hands-on experience supporting quality audits, process improvement, and documentation control.
• A collaborative mindset and a commitment to building inclusive, respectful, and equitable working relationships.

Horizontal Talent is committed to fostering a diverse, equitable, and inclusive workplace where everyone feels valued and empowered to contribute. We welcome candidates from all backgrounds and encourage you to apply if you’re excited about the role and meet the key qualifications.