Supplier Quality Engineer

Location: Northford

Title:

Supplier Quality Engineer

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Program Summary

Job Summary

Supplier Quality Engineer We are currently seeking a talented Supplier Quality Engineer at our Middletown, CT facility. They will need to have exp performing audits, analyze supplier processes and products, conduct root cause analysis for issues with parts, drive corrective actions, and reject/do a part stoppage if they arrive with defects.

Drive quality for assigned suppliers, including quality plan implementation. Select suppliers through qualification processes. Own supplier results, drive improvements utilizing supplier scorecards. Own supplier audits, ensuring compliance, and driving improvement plans where needed. In-depth understanding of key business drivers; uses this understanding to accomplish own work. Be on site and integrated into the supplier throughout the month to support key gaps in quality performance.

Roles and Responsibilities

The SQE ensures suppliers meet contractual/regulatory and internal quality standards for parts and materials. They will need to have exp performing audits, analyze supplier processes and products, conduct root cause analysis for issues with parts, drive corrective actions, and reject/do a part stoppage if they arrive with defects. They must be able to do supplier qualification, performance monitoring, development, and document first article inspections.

They qualify and evaluate new suppliers and monitor performance, conduct audit of supplier facilities and processes to ensure compliance with ISO/AS9100 quality standards and contractual requirements. Investigate and analyze supplier defects. See description for more specific details.

The SQE works under the general direction of the Manager, Program and Supplier Quality Assurance with minimum supervision performing supplier source inspections, first article inspections, supplier surveys and audits assuring supplier corrective action where required. Interface with procurement and other personnel within the procurement organization.

* Maintain the supplier rating system, which will define the total cost of ownership of products procured from suppliers.

* Implement and maintain a supplier approval system that will, in a cost-effective manner, qualify suppliers to do business with the company and meet varied purchase order requirements.

* Evaluates lean initiatives at supplier facilities and assists in implementing lean as necessary.

* Assures the means for procurement to issue purchase orders to qualified/approved suppliers and all requirements are included in the purchase orders.

* Manage the supplier corrective action system to identify and correct supplier problems in a timely manner.

* Coordinate Supplier Manufacturing Readiness Reviews and manage Supplier Request for Variance (when applicable).

* The Supplier Quality Engineer will conduct capability assessments that verify supplier qualifications, travel to assigned suppliers, and lead multiple projects to completion.

* Act as primary interface between the company and suppliers in resolving technical problems and performing source control inspections.

* Coordinate with functional departments and ensure that problems are resolved in a timely manner.

* Aid in determining the responsibility of discrepant hardware already received into the company and issued to the shop or shipped to customers.

* Establish and maintain effective communications with other operating departments and suppliers to facilitate problem identification/resolution and compliance with various specification requirements for supplier control.

* Prepare and maintain reports such as supplier performance, survey results, specification compliance, corrective actions, etc. ]

* Your responsibilities will include conducting audit, analyzing defect trends.

* Monitoring supplier performance and response times to ensure production continuity.

* Managing supplier corrective action reports.

* Developing and implementing supplier quality-related training programs for the quality and sourcing teams.

* Interface with cell managers to assure all applicable inspections/tests are performed and to assure that only acceptable…