Product Engineer Body

Type: Contract

Location: Chicago, IL. Onsite.

Pay Range: $49-50 Per Hour Job Type: W2 Contract. Expected Hours per Week: 40 hours per week.

Schedule: Monday-Friday

Position Summary: We are seeking a Plant Vehicle Team Engineer (PVTE) to support vehicle quality initiatives within an automotive assembly plant environment. This role is focused on urgent root cause analysis, warranty issue triage, plant-floor investigations, containment actions, and corrective action implementation in a high-volume production environment. The PVTE will work closely with manufacturing, supplier quality, and engineering teams to identify, analyze, and resolve vehicle quality concerns.

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 through plant-floor inspections, returned parts analysis, and cross-functional collaboration. Lead development and execution of Interim Containment Actions (ICA) and Permanent Corrective Actions (PCA).Support assembly plant activities including Stop Ships, Stop Builds, quality campaigns, 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, including 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.

Required Qualifications: Bachelor's Degree.3+ years of experience in automotive manufacturing, plant quality, product engineering, warranty analysis, or manufacturing engineering. Direct hands-on experience in an OEM automotive assembly plant environment. Proven experience independently leading root cause investigations and corrective actions in a production assembly environment. Strong experience with warranty data analysis, including Excel pivot tables, lookups, trend analysis, and large dataset handling. Experience using structured problem-solving methodologies such as 8D, 5 Why, and Fishbone/Ishikawa diagrams. Experience implementing Interim Containment Actions (ICA) and Permanent Corrective Actions (PCA).Ability to navigate CAD models such as NX, CATIA, or similar tools for investigation purposes. Strong analytical and troubleshooting skills in a manufacturing environment. Ability to work in a fast-paced, high-visibility plant setting. Strong cross-functional communication skills with engineering, production, and suppliers. Ability to own issues end-to-end and drive them to closure. Must be comfortable working 100% onsite and spending regular time on the plant floor.

Preferred Qualifications: Automotive OEM or Tier 1 supplier experience. Experience with body systems, closures, or vehicle structures. Experience with PLM tools such as Teamcenter. Experience with warranty or quality tracking systems. Prior involvement in launch support or running product changes. Background as a seasoned plant quality engineer, supplier quality engineer with assembly support, resident engineer, manufacturing quality lead, warranty engineer, or launch quality engineer with long-term plant operations experience. LI-JV1