Supplier & Market Quality Manager

Wolverine Advanced Materials produces and sells performance-critical, specialty elastomer-coated metals used in gaskets for automotive & industrial applications; automotive brake noise insulators and NVH (noise, vibration & harshness) damping solutions for automotive.

Wolverine employs approximately 600 people worldwide and has manufacturing operations in Virginia, Florida, Germany, and China, as well as sales & technical offices in Michigan, Germany, Japan, China, Brazil, and India.

Wolverine Advanced Materials, an entity of Center Rock Capital, is a leading developer and manufacturer of high-performance materials. Our core competency is in performance-critical, specialty elastomer–coated metals that offer damping and seal-ability solutions in the automotive and gasket industries.

Center Rock Capital is a company where they see potential where others may not look; and as a team we can find the right solution to the right challenge.

• Manage incoming supplier quality for current products across all U.S. Wolverine Advanced Materials (WAM) facilities.
• Support global WAM facilities on supplier quality initiatives, including supplier development, performance improvement, and issue resolution.
• Collaborate with Supply Chain and Technology teams to ensure new products have clearly defined requirements, specifications, and quality standards.
• Drive supplier quality improvements to strengthen consistency, reliability, and compliance with WAM expectations.
• Support new market expansion by ensuring customer and supplier quality requirements are met for both existing and new products.
• Partner with cross-functional teams to proactively address quality risks and enable smooth product launches in new markets
• This position is located on site in Blacksburg, VA. (no remote work).

Ensure current WAM suppliers are meeting required and established standards by :

• Ensure suppliers are following policies and procedures, operational guidelines related to established quality management system. (ISO/TS 16949).
• Drive supplier management through effective facilitation of supplier corrective actions, supplier certification, nonconforming material review and failure analysis and participation in the Quality Review Team (QRT).
• Create supplier audit schedule and participating in audits which are conducted on a scheduled basis, record action items, and ensure timely follow up.
• Lead implementation and monitoring supplier scorecards. Work with Purchasing on key metrics and ensure supplier’s expectations are clearly communicated.
• Establish a cadence with Purchasing for review of Supplier Concerns.
• Evaluate and verify proper root-cause analysis and effectiveness of corrective actions;
• Assist in developing best practices (standard inspection procedures, work instructions, quality test methods and policies).
• Work with suppliers on effective development of Process Maps, PFEMA’s, and Control Plans.
• Participate in working with the supplier; develop improvement plans including dated action plans.
• Collaborate with suppliers to ensure successful PPAP (Production Part Approval Process) completion, including reviewing submitted packages, providing guidance on deficiencies, and securing timely approvals

• Work with APQP teams, (Operations, Supply Chain and Technology) to determine the critical specifications of a new purchased product. Ensure that the proper tests are in place at the supplier to meet the specification and that material certifications clearly communicate specifications and results to the plants.
• Participate in process audits at the supplier when new purchased product is being produced, record action items and ensure timely follow up.

• Provide quality support to WAM teams in India, Brazil, Japan, WAM joint ventures, and other developing markets, ensuring customer requirements are met and supplier development activities are executed effectively and on schedule
• Ensure customer complaints are addressed promptly and thoroughly, including root cause investigation, corrective action, and preventive action implementation.
• Maintain clear, timely, and consistent communication with WAM teams, customers, and…