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Quality Team Leader - Casting

Magna International, Inc

  • Birmingham, Alabama
  • 12 days ago

    Highlights

    The function of Quality Team lead is to assist with Co-ordination and leading of activities in the quality lab and running and maintenance of the coordinate measuring machines (CMM) OPTIGO, OPTICELL and other measurement tools and equipment (3D Scanner). The Quality Team lead is responsible for THEIR safety and well-being, as well and Teams health and safety, quality, customer, cost, productivity, and ergonomic issues through using the company policies and procedures and the Magna Employee's Charter as a guideline.

    Numbers & Facts

    LocationBirmingham, Alabama
    IndustryAutomotive and Parts Mfg
    Company Size10,000 employees or more
    Year Founded1957
    Websitehttp://www.magna.com/

    Description

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    What we offer:

    At Magna, you can expect an engaging and dynamic environment where you can help to develop industry-leading automotive technologies. We invest in our employees, providing them with the support and resources they need to succeed. As a member of our global team, you can expect exciting, varied responsibilities as well as a wide range of development prospects. Because we believe that your career path should be as unique as you are.

    Group Summary:

    Cosma provides a comprehensive range of body, chassis and engineering solutions to global customers. Through our robust product engineering, outstanding tooling capabilities and diverse process expertise, we continue to bring lightweight and innovative products to market.

    Job Responsibilities:

    PURPOSE OF POSITION:

    The function of Quality Team lead is to assist with Co-ordination and leading of activities in the quality lab and running and maintenance of the coordinate measuring machines (CMM) OPTIGO, OPTICELL and other measurement tools and equipment (3D Scanner). Job includes doing necessary dimensional layouts via CMM or other means to ensure customer and Quality Assurance standards are being met and maintained.

    RESPONSIBILITY AND AUTHORITY:

    The Quality Team lead is responsible for THEIR safety and well-being, as well and Teams health and safety, quality, customer, cost, productivity, and ergonomic issues through using the company policies and procedures and the Magna Employee's Charter as a guideline.

    ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS OF THE POSITIONS:

    1) Follow and enforce all plant safety rules and policies.

    2) Understand and promote Magna's philosophies (Magna's Operational Principles, Corporate Constitution and Employee's Charter).

    3) Follow and comply with all operational procedures/policies as stated in the employee Environmental Health and Safety programs (Magna and OSHA Standards).

    4) Lead the Quality Team on your shift to co-ordinate daily activities and manage work orders

    5) Support / Perform as Quality techs as needed which includes X-Ray audit process, Tensile testing, Bend testing and Chemistry testing

    6) Perform Blister tests and help with Sample preps as needed

    7) Support / Perform as Quality Auditors as needed

    8) Escalate Quality Deviations to Production Leadership and Quality leadership

    9) Perform layout inspections on product, fixtures or dies as required. This would include first article layouts, gage reproducibility & repeatability studies and capability studies.

    10) Operate and maintain the coordinate measuring machines (CMM) and other measurement tools and equipment (3D Scanner). Job includes doing necessary dimensional layouts via CMM or other means to ensure customer and Quality Assurance standards are being met and maintained

    11) Maintain annual part layout.

    12) Maintain annual fixture gage reproducibility and repeatability studies.

    13) Monitor applicable CMM Trackers to prioritize and run weekly audits

    14) Optimize machine uptime by proactively getting fixtures and parts, while machines are kept running through shift.

    15) Ensure machines run 8 hours during shift, no idle process time

    16) Help maintain test equipment and storage area in a safe, clean and orderly condition. Follow 5S principle in and around work area.

    17) Prepares and maintains programs and reports from layout inspections.

    18) Fully understand quality standards, procedures and customer requirements.

    19) Program the Opti-Cell/Optigo (white/blue light measuring system) to measure stampings and assemblies of manufactured components

    20) Setup and measure manufactured components and provide timely feedback on the results.

    21) Export the data to the appropriate location on the network

    22) Initial set-up of the equipment to take the required views to provide the necessary part verification.

    23) Load the cells with the fixtures and parts prior to operation.

    24) View the output image and notify the appropriate Team Leader or Supervisor if there are any discrepancies they need to be aware of.

    25) Unload the parts and fixture after the operation

    26) Maintain NCM log and NCM cage for accuracy and help Quality auditors to contain of production parts as needed

    27) Create quality alerts as needed

    28) Exercise confidentiality in sharing dimensional feedback with customers prior to review by Leadership team

    29) Daily review of 5S and housekeeping in work area

    30) Promote good housekeeping

    31) Perform other duties as required

    About Company

    We are a leading global automotive supplier with 347 manufacturing facilities and 94 product development, engineering and sales centres in 27 countries. We have over 159,000 employees focused on delivering superior value to our customers through innovative processes and World Class Manufacturing.

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