Quality Engineer - Automotive

About the role

MDS Staffing is seeking a Quality Engineer for the St. Joseph, MI area. The role offers a competitive salary, bonus, 401K, and more. Drive customer quality in a newly remodeled, tech-driven automotive facility backed by 50+ years of stability, incoming new business, and annual bonus potential.

• 50+ Years of Stability & Growing Business: Build your career with an automotive leader backed by over five decades of success, long-tenured site leadership, and a surge of new customer contracts.
• Modern, Tech-Driven Workplace: Work out of a newly remodeled office space right next to the plant floor, collaborating in a facility updated with cutting-edge manufacturing technology.
• Customer Visibility & Teamwork: Partner closely with a fellow Quality Engineer in a supportive, team-oriented culture, serving as a direct quality point of contact for key clients who view the plant in excellent standing.
• Internal Career Advancement: Join an organization that actively prioritizes growing internal talent, giving you a clear runway for long-term skill development and career progression.
• Comprehensive Rewards & Bonus: Secure your health and financial future with annual bonus potential alongside multiple flexible medical, dental, and vision plan options.

A profitable, stable manufacturer is seeking a Quality Engineer who will report to the Quality Manager, work with another Quality Engineer, and partner closely with production and engineering. Candidates will be assigned to specific automotive OEMs and will work to reduce quality issues and support operations and production launches.

Responsibilities

• Communicate with key customers and serve as the point of contact for quality issues.
• Determine root cause of quality issues and implement corrective actions.
• Assist the manufacturing floor with quality issues and concerns.
• Review control plans.
• Complete weekly, monthly and quarterly reports for customers and management.
• Assist operations and engineering with problem solving.
• Monitor and update portals.
• Champion formal problem solving teams.
• Improve the gauge and SPC process.
• Support new model launch activities.
• Deliver related quality training.
• Monitor and minimize scrap.
• Utilize Minitab software.
• Take on additional responsibilities as delegated by the manager.

Requirements

The qualified candidate will enjoy spending up to 25% of their day on the manufacturing floor, be a good problem solver, be able to work in fast-paced automotive environments, thrive on driving continuous improvement, be able to work within a team and independently, be professional, and hit the ground running.

• Ideally a Bachelor's degree; experience will be considered in lieu of a degree.
• At least four years of quality engineering experience in a mass production machining environment OR with a tier I or tier II automotive supplier.
• Experience leading root cause analysis and implementing corrective actions.
• Formal problem solving skills, such as 8D, 5WHY, etc.
• Document control experience, such as control plans, APQP, PPAP, PFMEA, etc.
• Ability to read blueprints, ideally with GD&T experience.
• Working knowledge of calipers, micrometers, gauges and other quality tools.
• Microsoft Office skills.

Preferred but NOT required:

• ERP system experience.
• Lean/Six Sigma methodologies.
• Customer communication.
• Experience with product launches.
• Strong continuous improvement background with proven examples of scrap reductions, efficiency improvements, etc.
• SPC experience, including SPC software.

Benefits

The company offers EXCELLENT medical benefits (including dental and vision) available after 90 days, short-term and long-term disability, 401K, paid holidays and vacation, tuition reimbursement, life, and BONUS potential.