Enhanced Inspection (Safe Launch),

Who We Are: Challenge Manufacturing’s mission is to manufacture with operational excellence by empowering our employee-owners. As a leading tier 1 supplier of complex metal assemblies for the global automotive industry, we drive innovative solutions for future mobility. We believe the best ideas come from individual unique perspectives. These ideas combined with the teamwork of industry leaders allow us to accomplish any challenge. Our team members take pride in the work we do and embody our core values of safety, ownership, and teamwork every day; they are the true driving force in our operations.

Challenge is proud to be one of the largest employee-owned automotive companies in North America. One of the many benefits of joining the Challenge team is the ESOP program. This program allows Challenge to give shares of the Company to all employee-owners annually. These shares are an additional retirement benefit that will continue to grow during your time at Challenge. Being part of an ESOP means our employee-owners share in Challenge’s success!

Challenge is #QualityDriven and #PeoplePowered!

Who We Want:

position with responsibility for protecting the customer, monitoring and measuring product in the Safe Launch process, and escalating nonconforming product issues according to Challenge Manufacturing Quality Standards.  Performs quality checks to the provided work instruction, records information in Plex (enterprise resource data planning system - ERP), and performs general utility work to meet work schedule.

What You’ll Do:

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Performs all duties to support plants daily and weekly production requirements.
• Inspect and gage raw or welded parts according to the safe launch checklist to ensure parts meet customer specifications.
• Verify product meets the first piece requirements.
• Inspect product utilizing the Safe-Launch work instructions visible in Plex.
• Escalate any safe launch failure to your supervisor for disposition and correction
• Support the company’s quality process when internal and external quality failures result in product being contained.  Follows Company’s containment process to ensure defects are not shipped to Challenge Manufacturing customers (internal/external).
• Ensures parts are packed according to packaging instructions to meet customer requirements.
• Monitor quality alerts to ensure they are being followed and that they are valid.
• Ensure nonconforming processes are adhered to in order to protect the customer.
• Ensures and maintains safety and cleanliness of work area by performing housekeeping duties.
• Performs and cross trains on various work centers as required.
• Completes appropriate paperwork and other documentation correctly and legibly.
• Meets daily production requirements.

When and Where:

This will be a 1st Shift / 6:00AM - 2:30PM M-F position located at our Plant in Richmond, KY. 

Occasionally, this may require you to arrive early, stay late, or work on weekends, outside of our regular hours, to ensure we successfully meet customer needs, deadlines, or urgent requests.