Manufacturing Quality Engineer – Cutting

About the role

Lear Corporation is seeking a Manufacturing Quality Engineer for the Cutting area in Meknes. The role focuses on ensuring product quality, driving continuous improvement, and supporting compliance with automotive standards.

Key responsibilities

• Analyze daily cutting quality control reports and lead meetings on non‑conformities.
• Organize sorting activities, issue Quality Alerts, and participate in daily quality and production meetings.
• Lead internal investigations and contribute to 8D reports for internal and external customers.
• Monitor and communicate KPIs, audit status, and corrective‑action progress.
• Supervise implementation of Lear quality standards, control plans, work instructions and Poka‑Yoke controls in the Cutting area.
• Participate in internal and external audits according to IATF 16949 requirements.
• Follow up on customer complaints, warranty issues, and internal quality alerts.
• Coordinate with Manufacturing, Engineering, Maintenance and Logistics to ensure alignment of quality controls with production flows.
• Validate engineering changes (ECN/ECR) and support machine validation activities.
• Update work instructions, quality standards and related documentation for the Cutting area.
• Propose and deploy Kaizen actions to improve cutting process reliability.
• Conduct weekly process audits, manage the quarantine area and monitor 5S discipline.
• Lead the Cutting Quality team, including training and development of technicians and auditors.

Required profile

• Master’s degree (Bac+5) in Quality, Industrial Engineering or a related field.
• Minimum 1 year of quality experience, preferably in automotive wiring‑harness cutting processes.
• Strong knowledge of Automotive Core Tools and the 8D problem‑solving methodology.
• Good communication skills and fluency in English and French.

Required skills

• Automotive Core Tools (PFMEA, Control Plans, MSA, SPC).
• 8D Problem‑Solving methodology.
• IATF 16949 audit and compliance knowledge.
• Poka‑Yoke implementation.
• Quality Alerts management.
• Kaizen continuous‑improvement techniques.