Supplier Quality Engineer – Powertrain

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Our Supplier Quality team plays a vital role in ensuring that every sourced component meets Scout’s uncompromising standards of safety, reliability, and performance.

The Supplier Quality Engineer – Powertrain is responsible for ensuring that all supplier-sourced powertrain components meet Scout Motors’ engineering, manufacturing, and quality requirements. This includes managing supplier development, industrialization, and ongoing performance to enable flawless product launches and long-term production stability.

The role’s initial focus will be the Range Extender Engine (REX) and related subsystems, with expanding responsibility across the broader powertrain domain—including transmission, cooling, exhaust, and mounting systems—as Scout Motors’ vehicle portfolio grows.

• Lead APQP and PPAP activities with suppliers for all powertrain components and subsystems.
• Verify supplier process readiness through audits, run-at-rate, and process capability studies.
• Ensure robust control plans, FMEAs, and process documentation are in place prior to SOP.
• Partner with Engineering and Purchasing to ensure supplier selection aligns with Scout’s technical and quality expectations.

• Support early supplier engagement and design-for-manufacturability (DFM) reviews.
• Assess supplier capability and maturity to identify and mitigate technical, process, and capacity risks.
• Drive alignment of supplier quality deliverables with program milestones and Scout’s launch timing.

• Lead root cause analysis and corrective actions (8D, 5-Why, Fishbone) for supplier-related issues.
• Implement containment and corrective measures to protect manufacturing and maintain build schedules.
• Track and report supplier performance metrics (PPM, on-time PPAP, audit results) and drive continuous improvement initiatives.

• Serve as the primary interface between suppliers and internal teams (Engineering, Manufacturing, Purchasing, and Program Management).
• Support prototype, pre-series, and launch builds by ensuring supplier readiness and component quality.
• Provide technical feedback on supplier manufacturing capability and process improvements.

• Focus on supplier quality for key powertrain systems, including:
  • Range Extender Engine and subsystems (block, head, fuel, oil, exhaust, and cooling)
  • Transmission and torque transfer components
  • Thermal management and fluid systems (pumps, hoses, radiators)
  • Engine and transmission mounting systems
• Apply engineering expertise to ensure compliance with performance, durability, and regulatory requirements.

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