Component Engineer Job Austin area,Texas USA,Quality Assurance

Join a dynamic Supplier Quality Engineering team where you’ll play a key role in strengthening supplier performance, solving real production challenges, and partnering across manufacturing, R&D, and sourcing. This role offers the opportunity to lead impactful improvements, support new and existing products, and help shape quality excellence across a global supply base. It’s a great fit for someone eager to build technical expertise, drive meaningful change, and grow in a highly collaborative environment.

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this Role, Your Responsibilities Will Be:

Build and maintain strong relationships with domestic electronic and mechanical component suppliers, monitoring and improving their quality performance.
Act as the primary point of contact for production regarding supplier quality issues related to both mechanical and electronic component parts. Liaise between suppliers and R&D for new product development activities, quality improvements, and engineering changes.
Proactively review supplier performance and drive continuous improvement projects.
Understand and proactively address internal customer requirements and concerns, analyzing issues and recommending effective solutions.
Independently lead projects/feature changes that positively impact organizational functions.
Participate in and support supplier assessments, qualifications, and yearly audits (both local and overseas).
Support and align with global and regional commodity strategies and new supplier evaluations.
Serve as an effective technical resource for product/process/service support across various teams, providing technical assistance to cross‑functional groups as needed.
Mentor new engineers or technicians.
Expert at problem solving and continuous improvement tools.

SQE Best Practices:

Owns the issue – drive closure through personal involvement
Collaborative approach – get buy in from supplier that problem exists and work with them vs. directing
Describe the problem in technical terms – part/product failed against what spec/test, what was the value vs. expected value
Knows the process behind an issue – invest time up front to understand process involved, ask supplier to describe process
Leverage team – consult with peers and/or Subject Matter Experts (SME)
Rigid containment – focus on solid summary reporting, i.e.: record keeping, defect quantities, sorting results, accurate NCMRs (Non Confirming Material Records), etc.
Big picture focus – be mindful of trends and seek for long‑term sustainable improvements vs. day to day firefighting
Be willing to work out ‘best’ solution, not quickest – ensure win/win and that all parties will be committed to action plan
Get up and go – as necessary, go to the source to address issue and learn details of process
Follow up on key emails with phone call – allows for immediate clarification and expectation setting and clarifies tone

Always have ‘key takeaways’ on presentation slides – data and graphs should have a message, ‘what is this telling me?’

Who You Are:

You introduce new ways of looking partner with others to get work done. You are confident under pressure.

For This Role, You Will Need:

Technical degree or 5 years of relevant technical experience, mechanical preferred
Previous experience in a customer or supplier facing role
Proficient in Microsoft Office tools (Excel, Powerpoint, Word)
Proficient in applying quality and problem‑solving tools (8D, Lean, Six Sigma, Design Thinking, etc) and root cause analysis
Willing to travel domestically
Only U.S. Persons (U.S. citizens, lawful permanent residents, or protected individuals as defined by 22 CFR §120) may be considered.

Preferred Qualifications that Set You Apart:

Lean Six Sigma or other certifications
Experience with learning new productivity tools (AI, Power…