POSITION : Manager AQE (Advanced Quality Engineering)
LOCATION : Pune
BU : Global Automotive
SEGMENT : Transportation Solutions (India)
Company
TE Connectivity Ltd. is a $12 billion global technology and manufacturing leader creating a safer,
sustainable, productive, and connected future. For more than 75 years, our connectivity and sensor
solutions, proven in the harshest environments, have enabled advancements in transportation, industrial
applications, medical technology, energy, data communications, and the home. With 80,000 employees,
including more than 7,500 engineers, working alongside customers in approximately 150 countries, TE
ensures that EVERY CONNECTION COUNTS. Learn more at www.te.com
Bu / Function Description
The role comes under Automotive BU where we are currently supplying products to Commercial,
passenger, two wheelers and Industrial transportation. Function is to manage Quality Assurance for entire
transportation solution business in India.
Transportation solutions BU makes products for Connecting and Sensing Data, Power and Signal for
vehicles ranging from Two wheelers to Heavy Commercial trucks. TS India operates out of 2 Manufacturing
plants in Pune, Sales offices in Pune, Noida and Chennai and a Global engineering team in Bangalore. The
total team strength is of 3,500 employees. There is a clear business strategy till 2025 to support the
business growth. The growth is driven mainly driven from localization of Core India Specific products and
new technology products.
ROLE OBJECTIVE
The job objective is to ensure compliance with product quality specifications, customer requirements,
and process needs during the product and process design phase according NPD Process until the
formal product and process release is achieved.
Responsibilities
- The AQE team leader will be responsible for leading and managing a team of 4 - 5 advanced quality
engineers on the Quality system activities in APQP & PPAP.
- Understand Customer drawings, Technical requirements, Quality requirements, CSR and cascade
the requirements to CFT
- Exposure to Design and process validation testing and understanding test specifications
- AQE engineers are part of the project core team and being the Voice of the customer as well as the
interface to other internal departments
- Hands on experience in creating and reviewing PPAP documents such as PFC / PFMEA / DFMEA /
Control Plan / Specifications reviews / preparation of control plan / Gauge planning / SPC / MSA
- Support the FMEA meetings to achieve the quality standard, structure and content by capturing past
failures and lessons learnt
- Conduct Pre-PPAP audit, share observation to the team and follow-up to close all the open points
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- Leading customer audits and experienced in obtaining PPAP approvals from customers
- Support Safe Launch for New projects to ensure 0 customer complaints before hand over the
project to manufacturing site
- Collaboration in introducing and training of new quality and engineering related software packages,
Quality procedures and systems.
- AQE team leader will champion the IATF annual surveillance audits for the Engineering function
EDUCATION/KNOWLEDGE
- BE/ B.Tech (Mechanical / Production / Automotive Engineering)
- Knowledge about various phases of Product and Process development
- ISO/IAFT 16949 requirements for New Product / Process development
- Indepth knowledge in APQP/PPAP/PFC/PFMEA/DFMEA/Control Plan/SPC/MSA etc
- Awareness on VDA 6.3 requirements and audit
- Knowledge in wiring harness, parts having plastic injection molding / metal stamping processes will
be an added advantage
Critical Experience
- Minimum of 12-15 years of hands-on experience in IATF 16949 (Formerly TS 16949) Quality
systems in Automotive industry
- Experience in conducting internal audits & facing external audit as per IATF 16949 Quality systems
- Well versed and experienced in handling APQP, PPAP activities
- Leading interaction with Customer & suppliers for part and process from quality aspects
- Leading and managing a team of 4 5 AQE Engineers
COMPETENCIES
- Technical capabilities: Expert functional/domain knowledge
- Strategic agility: Identifying relevant technology trends and opportunities and leveraging TE global
technology to increase competitive position and increased value to customer
- Application Engineering: Ability to understand customer requirements & offer engineering solutions
- Quality & Reliability Engineering: Ability to understand customer requirements from quality
perspective & cascade internally to achieve First Time Right
- Building people capability: Training and mentoring engineers with the necessary skill set and
improve organizational capability to achieve First Time Right
- Team management: Effective management of Internal and External stake holders and team
members
MOTIVATIONAL/CULTURAL FIT
- Customer focus
- Innovation demeanor Problem solving
- Optimism and Team management
Job Overview
Supervises the workflow, training, and development of the employees, assessing product and process issues and recommending improvements.
Job Requirements
- Supervising quality control testing for product releases, coordinating and scheduling quality control activities, analyzing data, generating reports, and investigating non-conformances.
- Engaging cross-functional teams to conduct root cause analysis on the quality issues, providing recommendations based on the analysis to prevent the problems from recurring.
- Implementing quality management systems, refining them, driving quality initiatives, and deploying efficient and consistent procedures across the enterprise.
- Collaborating with multiple stakeholders in facilitating quality control inspection of products, supporting the team to deploy acceptable quality level (AQL) procedures, and process audits.
What Your Background Should Look Like
Generally requires Bachelors degree in appropriate field with a minimum of 5 years of progressively responsible professional level experience; Masters degree or higher or local equivalent may be preferred at this level.
Competencies
Values: Integrity, Accountability, Inclusion, Innovation, Teamwork
