# Site STA

**Company**: Ford
**Location**: Chennai, TN
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Logistics & Supply Chain
**Industry**: Automotive

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## Description

We are seeking a Site STA to join our team in Chennai, India. As a Site STA, you will be responsible for driving flawless launches at assigned supplier sites, collaborating with the Launch STA team, and escalating significant issues promptly.

Responsibilities:

- Conduct onsite evaluation visits for priority commodities as per GPDS supplier engagement process for new programs

- Support capacity studies interfacing with suppliers and Ford cross-functional teams

- Review supplier incremental tooling work plans compliance to PPAP requirements

- Drive capacity/uplift actions implementation with suppliers inline with the GCP study requirements

- Drive supplier process capacity issues resolution as needed – production constraint risk mitigation working with Ford and supplier teams and manage “date to green” plan

- Monitor supply status of 24/7 roster suppliers and Blue bar status of PPAPs beyond implementation timing

- Review supplier Capacity Analysis Reports (CAR) for compliance to capacity requirements

- Drive robust supplier failure mode avoidance through PFMEA, SCCAF, CP reviews, manufacturing feasibility reviews, and health chart deployment as applicable

- Drive supplier manufacturing health chart compliance and support development of new health charts

- Drive suppliers for special process compliance with the support of STA technical specialists

- Drive continuous improvement in manufacturing excellence with the assigned sites through Q1-MSA deployment, Q1 attainment/retention, health chart deployment, supplier training as required

- Drive deployment & improvement of quality performance requirements (Q1, QR, TGW, R/1000, CPU) through reduction, benchmarking, lean manufacturing, G8D methodology, PFMEA, SPC, gage R&R, etc. as required

- Drive new supplier site evaluations and supplier risk assessment on new sourcing in support of GCST, identifying risk mitigation

- Drive closure of supplier process quality issues related to stop ship/build, BSAQ projects, and field action stop ship/prevent action

- Drive compliance to all organisational and corporate training requirements and SIM process compliance

Qualifications:

- Bachelor of Science/Engineering, or academic equivalent

- Be proficient in English when working with global teams

- Knowledge of handling suppliers catering to major automobile OEM

- Experience in quality systems, tools, and techniques e.g. SPC, MSA, GD&T, PPAP, and APQP

- Good communication skills verbally and in written mode

## Skills

### Required
- English
- SPC
- MSA
- GD&T
- PPAP
- APQP

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