Supplier Quality Engineer

• Design and maintain standards expertise, policies, procedures, and manuals for Supplier Quality on the determination of new supply sources, supplier quality relations, standardization of measurements, and acceptable criteria of materials. Compile supplier performance KPI metrics and participate in supplier scorecard development.

• Ensures suppliers meet requirements. Develop supplier to meet these requirements as needed.

• Supports the Sourcing team in the selection and quality of potential suppliers and Support NPD (New Product Development) projects.

• Interfaces with personnel from multiple plants to resolve chronic or major supplier issues and verify that suppliers understand process/product requirements.

• Implements and maintains quality improvement and auditing systems with suppliers focusing on process controls, quality control, quality management and quality systems.

• Review engineering specifications and drawings to determine suppliers’ abilities to meet parameters and reviews new and modified product designs from a material standpoint advising modifications when necessary.

• Reviews and approves Suppliers PPAP’s; review and audit the deliverables including: Control Plans, Capability Studies, Part layouts, Gage R&R, PFEMA, and support or lead project management efforts regarding supplier changes.

• Involve suppliers, internal resources, plant personnel to drive containment and closed-loop closure to significant quality issue. Ensure that Supplier quality issues are resolved using an appropriate problem-solving methodology like; Root Cause, 8D and decision matrices.

• Assists multiple plants on third party audit regarding supplier qualifications and performance.

• Assist Purchasing and Customer Service to expedite product from suppliers in urgent situations

• Performs other duties as assigned.