Production Quality Engineer
Mercedes-BenzCharleston, South Carolina, United States
Posted March 26, 2026
Full Time
About the Company
Mercedes-Benz Group AG is a global automotive leader headquartered in Stuttgart, Germany, that designs, manufactures, and markets premium passenger cars, vans, trucks, and buses. The group focuses on cutting-edge mobility solutions, including electrification, autonomous driving, and digital services, while maintaining a strong commitment to sustainability and safety. Its flagship brands—Mercedes-Benz, Smart, and Mercedes-Benz Vans—combine world-class engineering with iconic design, positioning the company at the forefront of luxury and commercial transport. Mercedes-Benz’s distinctive blend of heritage, innovation, and a relentless pursuit of quality continues to set industry standards and drive its global growth.
Job Description
Shape the future today by developing complex manufacturing production processes and methods, improving production capacity, quality, and reliability, and ensuring the implementation and execution of problem solving of quality issues produced within the body shop.
Requirements
- Develops best practices to improve production capacity, quality, and reliability
- Manages the implementation of continuous improvement processes for efficiency to create a Lean Manufacturing environment
- Ensures implementation and execution of problem solving of quality issues produced within the body shop
- Assesses unusual circumstances, suggests variations in approaches due to incomplete or conflicting data
- Initiates and supports with concepts and defines actions to improve production quality and or processes
- Investigates problems, analyzes root causes and derives resolutions. Will use 8D Problem Solving Process to ensure sustainable quality products
- Develops operational strategies to achieve production and quality objectives
- Assures product and process quality by designing complex testing methods; testing finished-product and process capabilities; establishing standards; confirming manufacturing processes
- Performs a variety of complicated tasks relying on experience and judgment to plan and accomplish goals
- Evaluates current production activities and drives improvements
- Periodically ensures that highly technical equipment meets required specifications and high quality standards
- Implements cost reduction initiatives while maintaining high quality standards
- Contributes to product and process quality design testing methods
- Develops planning standards, methods, and procedures
- Stays current with product specifications, engineering technology and production processes
- Provides guidance to team members to accomplish production goals; Mentors and provides guidance to less senior manufacturing engineers for skill/knowledge base development.
- Participates in regularly scheduled team meetings
Benefits
- Excellent compensation & benefits plan
- 401k Matching
