Supplier Quality Engineer

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Location: St. Cloud, Florida

Workplace Category: Onsite

Travel Required: Up to 30% (domestic and limited international)

Direct Reports: No

Pay Range: $73,600 – $106,200

Visa Sponsorship: Applicants must be currently authorized to work in the United States. This position is not eligible for employment visa sponsorship now or in the future.

Relocation: Yes

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The Supplier Quality Engineer (SQE) provides both strategic and tactical leadership to manufacturing by ensuring the quality, reliability, and continuous supply of electronic and plastic injection molded components. This role is responsible for executing Advanced Product Quality Planning in support of the High-Performance Product Development (HPPD) process, driving supplier development, leading corrective action resolution and delivering performance reporting.

The SQE serves as the primary owner of supplier quality performance and acts as the first line of defense against supplier-related production risk, ensuring rapid containment, root cause validation, and sustainable corrective actions. Through direct engagement with the global supply base, the SQE ensures all materials consistently meet engineering specifications and process capability requirements, protecting manufacturing operations from line disruptions, quality escapes, and warranty exposure while driving supplier capability and continuous improvement across the supply base.

With a strong emphasis on electronics manufacturing (e.g., PCB/SMT processes) and plastic injection molding (e.g., tooling and dimensional control), the SQE ensures suppliers meet technical and process requirements critical to product quality and production continuity. This role plays a key part in supporting Mercury Marine’s broader Plant 7 strategy to expand internal manufacturing capabilities, strengthen supply chain resilience, and drive standardized, scalable quality practices across electronics and plastic injection molding operations.

• Own supplier nonconformances from identification through containment, root cause validation, and closure, ensuring issues are resolved in a timely and effective manner
• Drive corrective actions (SCAR / 8D) with suppliers, ensuring robust root cause analysis, verification of effectiveness, and prevention of recurrence
• Coordinate and communicate supplier quality issues, risks, and status updates to internal stakeholders to support informed decision-making and production continuity
• Escalate repeat, high-risk, or systemic supplier issues based on defined thresholds to ensure appropriate visibility and resolution support
• Ensure linkage between supplier defects, lot traceability, and production impact to enable effective containment and root cause analysis
• Collaborate with suppliers and cross-functional teams to address quality issues, improve response time, and strengthen overall supplier performance

• Lead containment activities (e.g., controlled shipping, sorting, certified stock) in coordination with suppliers to mitigate production risk and prevent line disruptions
• Own and drive timely response to supplier-related quality issues impacting production, ensuring rapid containment and recovery actions
• Partner with Manufacturing and Quality to assess, disposition, and control nonconforming material (MRB) to protect production flow
• Ensure only conforming material is released to production through appropriate verification and supplier communication
• Communicate real-time supplier quality risks, material availability constraints, and containment status to internal stakeholders
• Coordinate supplier actions to restore normal…