Job Description
Great opportunity for a Manufacturing Product Engineer!
Location: Chicago, IL. Onsite (no hybrid or remote)
Hours: Dayshift: 8am - 4:30pm (CENTRAL)
Pay rate: Up to $46.50/hour with employee benefits, PTO, paid holidays, etc.
• **POSTION IS FULY ONSITE within an automotive assembly plant
Requires regular time on the plant floor investigating active production issues
OVERVIEW:
• We are seeking a Plant Vehicle Team Engineer (PVTE) to support vehicle quality initiatives within an automotive assembly plant environment.
• This role is responsible for identifying, analyzing, and resolving vehicle quality issues using warranty data, plant investigations, and structured problem-solving methodologies.
• This is a hands-on, plant-floor-focused role requiring close collaboration with manufacturing, supplier quality, and engineering teams to drive root cause analysis and corrective actions.
Key Responsibilities:
• Analyze warranty claim data and customer feedback to identify failure trends, emerging issues, and high-impact quality concerns
• Perform daily triage and binning of warranty claims into appropriate categories to support prioritization
• Conduct root cause investigations using plant-floor inspections, returned parts analysis, and cross-functional collaboration
• Lead development and execution of: Interim Containment Actions (ICA) Permanent Corrective Actions (PCA)
• Support assembly plant activities including: Stop Ships / Stop Builds Quality Campaigns and Audits Engineering Trials and Running Changes
• Work directly on the plant floor to investigate build issues and validate corrective actions
• Collaborate with suppliers and internal engineering teams to resolve component and subsystem quality issues
• Maintain and report on Vehicle Functional Group (VFG) quality metrics (Top 20 issues) Issue engineering alerts and documentation to support product changes and quality improvements
• Present findings, status updates, and recommendations to cross-functional teams and leadership
Skills Required:
• Strong experience with warranty data analysis: Excel (pivot tables, lookups, trend analysis, large dataset handling)
• Ability to navigate CAD models (NX, CATIA, or similar) for Part-to-part interface analysis
• Root cause investigation (Note: Design ownership is not required, but functional CAD usage is essential)
• Problem-Solving & Quality Tools
• Demonstrated experience using structured methodologies: 8D Problem Solving 5 Why Analysis Fishbone (Ishikawa) diagrams
• Experience implementing: Interim Containment Actions (ICA) Permanent Corrective Actions (PCA)
Core Competencies
• Strong analytical and troubleshooting skills in a manufacturing environment
• Ability to work in a fast-paced, high-visibility plant setting
• Effective cross-functional communication with engineering, production, and suppliers
• Ability to own issues end-to-end and drive them to closure
Experience Required:
• 3+ years of experience in Automotive manufacturing / Plant quality product engineeringor warranty analysis roles
• Hands-on experience in an OEM assembly plant environment is required
• Proven experience performing root cause analysis and driving issues to resolution in a production environment
Experience Preferred:
• Automotive OEM or Tier 1 supplier experience in: Body systems, closures, or vehicle structures
• Experience with: PLM tools (e.g., Teamcenter)
• Warranty or quality tracking systems
• Prior involvement in launch support or running product changes
Education Required: Bachelor's Degree
Pay: $45.00 - $46.50 per hour
Benefits:
• 401(k)
• Dental insurance
• Health insurance
• Paid time off
• Vision insurance
Work Location: In person
