Contract role
Quality Engineer – Proactive APQP / NPI / NCI Focus
Location – Lafayette, IN(Day One Onsite)
Contract
The role emphasizes prevention-based quality fundamentals, front-end risk identification, and cross-functional execution to ensure robust, capable processes and successful launches.
Key Responsibilities
– Lead APQP execution for NPI and NCI programs, ensuring early identification of validation plans, audit strategies, and project readiness reviews.
– Support PFMEA development, ensuring risks are identified early and mitigated appropriately.
– Develop, review, and maintain Control Plans aligned to PFMEA risk, process capability, and customer requirements.
– Lead process validation activities including capability analysis, production trials, and run-at-rate evaluations.
– Partner with manufacturing, operations, and engineering to ensure internal process readiness.
– Support early production launches by monitoring quality indicators, addressing emerging risks, and driving preventive actions.
– Lead structured problem-solving when required, while ensuring lessons learned are fed back into APQP documentation.
– Identify and support quality metrics focused on risk prevention and launch robustness.
– Provide APQP and quality fundamentals training to cross-functional teams.
Basic Qualifications
– Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Manufacturing, or a related technical discipline.
– 3+ years of progressive experience in Quality, Manufacturing, or Product Engineering.
– Demonstrated experience with APQP, including PFMEAs and Control Plans.
– Strong cross-functional indirect leadership.
– Strong communicator – able to influence and engage with individuals at all levels of the business to build trusted partnerships.
– Proven analytical and structured problem-solving capability.
Preferred Qualifications
– Experience supporting New Product Introduction (NPI) and/or New Capital Introduction (NCI).
– Quality certifications such as ASQ-CQE or Six Sigma Green/Black Belt.
– Experience with process capability analysis and error-proofing methods.
To apply for this job email your details to md.faisal@signinsol.com