Supplier Quality Engineer

• Partner with sourcing, engineering, quality, and production teams to manage supplier quality and drive continuous improvement.
• Lead supplier qualification, onboarding, and performance management to ensure compliance with quality, engineering, and delivery requirements.
• Collaborate with internal and external stakeholders to strengthen supplier relationships, resolve quality issues, and optimise supply chain performance.

• Supportive, team-driven culture that values collaboration, transparency, and accountability.
• Opportunity to grow your career with a global workforce solutions leader serving multiple industries.
• People-first environment that encourages employees to bring their authentic selves to work.
• Strong focus on partnership, innovation, and delivering meaningful results for clients and candidates.

This role offers the chance to join a company that prioritises both people and performance-where your contributions directly impact client success while giving you room to grow and develop professionally.

Acara is a premier recruiting and workforce solutions provider-we help companies compete for talent. With a legacy of experience in various industries worldwide, we partner with clients, listen to their needs, and customise visionary talent solutions that drive desired business outcomes. We leverage decades of experience to deliver contingent staffing, direct placement, executive search, and workforce services worldwide.

• Identify and qualify new suppliers by arranging initial audits, reviewing the supplier's manufacturing process plans, and ensuring that suppliers will comply with and fulfil engineering and quality requirements for procured material.
• Manage the supplier onboarding process for new suppliers and update documents for existing suppliers as needed.
• Maintain supplier relationships with constant interfacing and managing the bidding process by sending RFQs for all procured parts as needed.
• Develop a strong relationship with production, quality, materials and engineering to partner in driving key sourcing and business metrics such as cost out and supplier quality.
• Work closely with Materials to ensure the supplier meets deliverable metrics for LT/OTD/MOQ and quality.
• Coordinate, direct, and manage the part qualification process for all purchased parts as well as the supplier quality activities with focus on issue resolution, supplier approval, qualifications, development, process control, and quality assurance consistent with Sourcing quality initiatives to reduce risk in the supply chain by ensuring suppliers are aware of our needs and procedures.
• Create and manage the sourcing project list to manage priority changes.
• Support any major customer issue related to fulfillment issues and coordinate corrective actions with the local materials team.
• Monitor and drive for Cost of Failure/ Quality (COF / COQ) reduction within the business and work with the Sourcing/Commercial teams on costs associated with rejects/defects.
• Monitor suppliers' non-conforming performance/ trends, and identify and drive process improvement, root cause analysis, and corrective actions.
• Provide technical guidance to suppliers towards assuring product/process compliance with engineering drawings, customer requirements and specifications.

• High School Diploma or GED
• 4+ years of experience in supplier quality, quality engineering, manufacturing quality, or a related engineering environment.

• Bachelor's Degree in Engineering.
• Certified Supplier Quality Professional or Certified Quality Engineer
• Minimum 3-5 years' experience in Engineering or Supply Chain with a manufacturing background.
• Experience with in metallurgy and manufacturing processes, including casting, welding, forming, and machining
• Knowledge of quality tools and statistical analysis
• Lead Auditor qualified through a recognised accreditation body.
• Proven analytical and problem-solving skill set and ability to co-ordinate multiple priorities.
• Strong Microsoft Office Skills including Excel, Access and Power Point
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