Quality Control Engineer (Automotive)

Location: Saltillo, Coahuila, Mexico; onsite supplier and manufacturing quality activities.

Company

Daimler Truck is a global automotive and transportation company with truck, bus, engine, component, and financial services divisions.

What you will do

• Coordinate automotive suppliers to monitor performance, capacity readiness, delivery, and compliance.
• Guide supplier quality improvement initiatives using process analysis, value stream mapping, Six Sigma, 5S, and Kaizen.
• Support new product launches through APQP activities and launch readiness reviews.
• Conduct supplier process and product audits and maintain audit schedules and quality system records.
• Manage supplier quality issues, including investigations, containment actions, dispositions, and long-term corrective actions.
• Monitor supplier metrics such as DPPM, quality complaints, capacity readiness, and on-time shipment performance; review PPAP submissions and technical quality deliverables.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering or a related degree.
• At least 2 years of relevant experience.
• English at C1 level required.
• Spanish at C2 level required.
• Experience with APQP, PPAP, launch readiness, capacity planning, supplier audits, risk assessment, and commodity risk assessment.
• Skills in technical reporting, presentations, documentation management, data visualization, meeting facilitation, analysis, problem solving, decision making, project management, and planning.

Culture & Benefits

• Work within a global automotive organization focused on sustainable transportation.
• Collaborative, diverse, and inclusive working environment.
• Flexible and agile workplace culture aligned with business and employee needs.
• Opportunity to contribute to truck, bus, engine, and component brands.