Advanced Quality Planning Engineer
Confirmed on the employer's own hiring board on Oct 30, 2026. First seen by Alion on Oct 28, 2026. Koch Industries scores A on the Alion truth index.
Your Job
We are seeking a skilled, self-motivated AQP Engineer to join our team. You will be responsible for overseeing the Advanced Quality Planning (AQP) process, ensuring that all automotive products meet the highest standards of quality and customer satisfaction. You will be an integral part of the site’s Quality leadership team, responsible for day-to-day execution and strategic direction setting.
What You Will Do
Project Planning, Management:
- Lead, develop and manage the AQP project plan, including timelines, milestones, and deliverables.
- Lead and coordinate customer claims through cross-functional teams, ensuring timely investigation, effective containment, root cause identification, and sustainable corrective actions to closure.
- Facilitate communication between various departments to ensure alignment on project goals and requirements.
Risk Management:
- Conduct risk assessments and develop mitigation strategies.
- Oversee the maintenanceof Control Plan.
Documentation and Reporting:
- Ensure all AQP documentation are complete, accurate, and up to date.
- Report on project status, progress, and any issues, both internal, external.
Process Qualification and Control:
- Oversee production trials, ensuring they meet quality standards.
- Develop and implement control plans to maintain process consistency and quality.
Continuous Improvement
- Identify opportunities for process improvement and implement changes to enhance product.
Who You Are (Basic Qualifications)
- Demonstrated good communication, teamwork, and organisational skills.
- Striving for continuous development.
- Problem-solving and statistical process control skills.
- Can work independently.
- Decision-making skills.
- Strong English language skills.
- Good knowledge of MS Office applications (Excel, Outlook).
What Will Put You Ahead
- Knowledge of quality management systems in accordance with AIAG and VDA.
- Team Lead experience.
- SAP proficiency.
- SPC analysis.
- PPAP Process experience.
- Third level Studies in Automotive fields.
At Koch companies, we are entrepreneurs. This means we openly challenge the status quo, find new ways to create value and get rewarded for our individual contributions. Any compensation range provided for a role is an estimate determined by available market data. The actual amount may be higher or lower than the range provided considering each candidate's knowledge, skills, abilities, and geographic location. If you have questions, please speak to your recruiter about the flexibility and detail of our compensation philosophy.
Who We Are
As a Koch company, Molex is a leading supplier of connectors and interconnect components, driving innovation in electronics and supporting industries from automotive to health care and consumer to data communications. The thousands of innovators who work for Molex have made us a global electronics leader. Our experienced people, ground breaking products and leading-edge technologies help us deliver a wider array of solutions to more markets than ever before.
At Koch, employees are empowered to do what they do best to make life better. Learn how our business philosophy helps employees unleash their potential while creating value for themselves and the company.
Additionally, everyone has individual work and personal needs. We seek to enable the best work environment that helps you and the business work together to produce superior results.
What We Offer
- Opportunities for a professional development
- Private medical health care
- Life insurance
- Sport card
- Team building events
- Referral program
- Internal and external trainings
- Work in Principle Based Management environment, where we promote honesty and respect, we prefer self-reliant employees with initiative over micromanagement, we openly share the knowledge and expect employees to be eager to learn