Quality Engineer
Confirmed on the employer's own hiring board on Oct 28, 2026. First seen by Alion on Oct 26, 2026. Aptiv scores B on the Alion truth index.
Role Summary:
As a Quality Engineer, you will provide technical expertise and leadership to ensure product and process quality while driving continuous improvement across manufacturing operations. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams to resolve quality issues, support new product and process launches, manage customer quality requirements, and ensure compliance with applicable quality standards.
Your Role:
- Develop, implement, and maintain product quality plans to ensure compliance with customer and internal requirements.
- Partner with different areas of the organization to resolve product, material, and manufacturing process quality issues.
- Maintain close interaction with customers to understand and address quality requirements and expectations.
- Participate in the planning, validation, and release of new manufacturing lines and processes.
- Coordinate investigations of customer quality complaints, supporting root cause identification, corrective actions, and effectiveness verification.
- Ensure appropriate methods and controls are in place for product and process quality assurance.
- Ensure non-conforming material is properly identified, segregated, controlled, and dispositioned.
- Coordinate PPAP sample requests with production teams to support annual product revalidations.
- Plan and support product and process audits.
- Ensure quality systems within the assigned area are properly executed and effective.
- Apply quality methodologies and tools including APQP, PPAP, PFMEA, Control Plans, SPC, QRQC, and 8D.
- Monitor quality performance through activities such as FTQ tracking, quality claims, product audits, process audits, and Red Bin Reviews.
- Exercise authority to stop manufacturing processes when operating outside established control requirements.
- Support compliance with IATF 16949 requirements, customer-specific requirements, and applicable ISO 45001, ISO 14001, and ISO 50001 standards
Your Background:
- Completed university degree.
- 3-5 years of related experience in the connector or automotive electrical industry.
- Advanced English proficiency (80%) and Spanish language skills.
- Experience with automotive quality systems and IATF 16949 requirements.
- Knowledge and practical application of APQP, PPAP, PFMEA, Control Plans, and SPC.
- Experience with structured problem-solving methodologies such as QRQC and 8D.
- Experience supporting product and process audits, customer quality claims, and corrective actions.
- Knowledge of non-conforming material control, product/process deviations, and product revalidation activities.
- Strong problem-solving, teamwork, and service-oriented skills.
- Proficiency with Microsoft Word, Excel, Outlook, and PowerPoint.
- Familiarity with Minitab, AutoCAD, Adobe Acrobat, and statistical analysis software
Your Benefits:
- 13th and 14th month bonus
- Major Medical Insurance
- Life Insurance
- Vacation days
- Gas Bonus
- RAP
- Cafeteria Service
You grow at Aptiv.
Aptiv's winning culture is global by design. We bring together diverse perspectives, cultures, and business contexts to solve our customers' toughest challenges. In this environment, every individual can grow, lead, and make an impact, regardless of background, because inclusion fuels how we innovate and win.
You make an impact at Aptiv.
One of the strengths of humanity is our drive to progress, to improve, to achieve more tomorrow than we did yesterday. People need solutions they can trust when it matters most. At Aptiv, you are building those solutions every day.
You have support at Aptiv.
We ensure you have the resources and support you need to take care of your family, your physical health, and your mental health with a competitive benefits package.
Meet the Next-Generation Aptiv
At Aptiv, we deliver innovative solutions that people trust when it matters most.
Progress is never static. It is about reaching further, exploring new possibilities, and enabling mobility. Aptiv empowers customers to create solutions people rely on-advancing safety and autonomy in Automotive and Commercial Vehicles, enabling mission-critical performance in Aerospace & Defense, and powering intelligent systems across Energy, Enterprise, and Telecommunications. We also drive precision and efficiency in Industrials & Robotics and support life-critical innovation in Medical technologies.
Guided by our winning culture and values to Think & Act Like Owners, as One Team, and Play to Win, we turn commitment into results and achieve more together.
Join Us to Deliver Innovative Solutions That People Trust!
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