Global Supplier Quality Engineer

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Job Title: Global Supplier Quality Engineer 

Job Responsibilities:
• Evaluates potential new suppliers through technical capability assessments, ensuring they meet the company's rigorous standards and can deliver high-quality components and assists in the supplier selection.
• Executes DFMAT (Design for Manufacturing and Assembly Technique), SAF (Supplier Approval Form), MSA (Measurement System Analysis), PFMEA (Process Failure Mode and Effects Analysis), Control Plan, SPC (Statistical Process Control), PV&V (Process Validation and Verification), FAI (First Article Inspection), LRA (Logistics Risk Assessment), and SICR (Supplier Initiated Change Request).
• Executes, monitors, and controls APQP (Advanced Product Quality Planning) processes during NPI projects to maintain consistent quality and adherence to project timelines.
• Contributes to the Supplier Project Book by documenting detailed quality requirements and expectations for suppliers, ensuring clear communication and compliance.
• Facilitates Design for Excellence (DfX) collaboration between R&D and suppliers to enhance product design quality, leveraging supplier expertise for better design outcomes.
• Ensures Critical to Quality (CtQ) characteristics are clearly communicated to suppliers and rigorously maintained throughout the production process, securing consistent product quality.
• Executes Part Submission Warrant plans, deliverables, line releases, and completion, ensuring that all parts meet specified quality standards before they are approved for use.
• Supports supplier improvement and development on APQP, providing guidance and resources to help suppliers enhance their quality processes and achieve compliance.
• Reviews Supplier Agreements, conducts thorough analysis of defects to determine if they are supplier-caused, and coordinates Supplier Corrective Action Requests to address and resolve quality issues effectively.

Minimum required Education:
Bachelor's Degree/ Vocational Education in Engineering Science, Supply Chain Management, Electrical Engineering, Electronic Engineering or equivalent.
Preferred Education:

Bachelor's Degree in Engineering Science, Supply Chain Management, Mechanical, Mechatronics Engineering

Preferred Experience:

4 years of experience

Preferred Certification:
N/A

Preferred Skills:
• Supplier Quality Management
• Quality Management Procedures and Methodologies
• Supplier Evaluation Methodologies
• Data Analysis & Interpretation
• DfX Methodology
• Supply Chain Management (SCM)
• Quality Specifications
• CAPA Methodologies
• Statistical Process Control (SPC)
• Measurement Systems Analysis (MSA)
• Process Validation and Verification (PV&V)
• First Article Inspections
• Documentation & Reporting
• Continuous Improvement

How we work together
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Field roles are most effectively done outside of the company’s main facilities, generally at the customers’ or suppliers’ locations.
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