Senior Engineer Supplier Development - Chassis

You own supplier quality for a high-volume automotive plant, resolving issues that disrupt production. Acting as the primary quality interface with suppliers, you drive corrective actions using 8D, 5 Why, and PDCA, ensuring compliance with IATF 16949 and ISO standards. You collaborate with cross-functional teams and supplier development to prevent recurrence. This role stands out for its direct impact on plant performance and 50% travel, including international visits.

Lead the corporate Supplier Quality Assurance function for direct production components and materials to ensure robust supplier performance and compliance. This role drives strategy and builds a proactive supplier ecosystem while partnering across departments to achieve flawless launch execution.

As Quality Engineer, you own customer quality for North American OEMs across the full product lifecycle, from design to production. This role covers automotive antenna systems, RF, and connected vehicle products such as telematics, GPS, cellular, V2X, and wireless charging, with direct accountability for customer escalations and APQP/PPAP deliverables. You operate from a small, engineering-driven satellite office in Belleville, MI, collaborating with global manufacturing sites in China, Vietnam, and Mexico. You lead root cause analysis and corrective actions using 8D, FMEA, and SPC to ensure robust quality performance. This contract-to-hire role offers a pay range of $85,000-$105,000 and requires travel to OEM sites about 25% of the time.

You will own critical supply issues for GM programs, leading cross-functional teams through crises like equipment failures and natural disasters. Your work spans Purchasing, Engineering, Supplier Quality, Logistics, and OEM plants, with direct impact on production continuity. You will drive supplier corrective actions, improve delivery performance, and support business transfers. This hybrid role, based in Warren, MI, demands 5+ years of supply chain experience and a willingness to travel 75% to supplier sites.

You start the morning reviewing supplier dashboards and KPIs, spotting a trend in a critical component used by our AI-driven robotic platform. By lunch you are on a call with a contract manufacturer, guiding an 8D through root cause analysis for a SCAR. In the afternoon you collaborate with Supply Chain Engineering and External Manufacturing to qualify a new supplier, aligning control plans and PPAP evidence. You close the day by planning a process audit and mapping Lean improvements that prevent defects before they happen. This role involves overseeing quality activities for designated suppliers, executing quality initiatives to meet internal standards and regulatory requirements, delivering performance updates via dashboards, leading SCARs, validating root cause analysis, confirming corrective actions, and partnering with cross-functional teams to evaluate and qualify new suppliers while championing continuous improvement using Lean Six Sigma and structured problem solving.

Quality Engineer will own quality controls for new product launches at a Tier 1 automotive supplier, ensuring APQP documentation and process controls meet IATF 16949:2016 standards. You will act as the primary customer quality contact for GM and Stellantis, managing corrective actions and 8D reports. This role sits on a cross-functional team with production, tooling, and engineering in Detroit. You will drive continuous improvement and reduce COPQ while supporting on-site launch activities. Unlike generic QA roles, this position demands deep OEM portal expertise and weekly customer interaction.