Senior Supplier Quality Engineer - Casting

Position Overview

The Senior Supplier Quality Engineer provides strategic and tactical support to Manufacturing by executing quality activities such as advanced quality planning to support High Performance Product Development (HPPD) process, supplier development activities, corrective actions, and reporting to maintain and improve customer satisfaction, eliminate errors and improve efficiency. The Procurement Team depends on the Supplier Quality Engineer to be fully engaged with the global supply base to ensure that all direct purchased materials meet all performance specification requirements over time and eliminate line downs, recalls or other quality failures resulting in customer dissatisfaction.

Independently, and in collaboration with assigned suppliers within the global supply base, process and execute quality activities. Maintain effective business communications/relationships with suppliers and internal customers to understand any quality impacts to production to proactively disseminate relevant information to all stakeholders and meet customer expectations and business requirements.

• Serve as a consultative resource and collaborative partner to both customers and suppliers to ensure all needs and expectations are understood and addressed.
• Process PPAP submissions to enable timely new product shipments.
• Handle tactical quality issues with assigned suppliers.
• Review corrective action submissions to verify root cause analysis is complete and measures are taken to eliminate future recurrence.
• Respond to customer inquiries in a timely, accurate and consultative manner.
• Conduct supplier quality performance analysis and proactively provide insightful information to the buyer’s desk plan and the category team.
• Analyze and evaluate supplier PPM performance to provide optimal solution and/or recommendations for improvement.
• Provide quality performance data as required to enable the assessment of past performance, ensure continued efficiency and identify continuous improvement opportunities.

Independently, or in collaboration with others, exercise functional knowledge to effectively and efficiently execute business processes that ensure the support of ongoing production and supplier communications. Demonstrated behaviors include supporting manufacturing by performing or coordinating the initial sort and/or inspection of suspect parts to maintain production goals, issuing corrective actions to suppliers for identified discrepant materials, focusing on people and inspiring trust, and influencing leadership.

• Support manufacturing by performing and/or coordinating the initial sort and/or inspection of suspect parts to maintain production goals.
• Issue corrective actions to suppliers for identified discrepant materials to ensure suppliers are notified of the issue and root cause analysis can be completed.
• Focus on people and inspire trust by doing the right things.
• Inspire and motivate people by living out the organization’s vision in everyday business encounters.
• Demonstrate influential leadership:
  • Incite action across the entire value stream by mastering the skills of communication and motivation tailored to an individual person.
  • Create an atmosphere where people have an enormous desire to follow, are fully committed to the organization’s vision, and achieve well beyond the expected goals.

• Document materials rejected due to quality issue to maintain inventory accuracy in MRB.
• Verify the materials received correspond to the documentation provided with the shipment.
• Interpret engineering drawings, schematic diagrams, or formulas and confer with management or engineering staff to determine quality and reliability standards relative to warranty agreements.
• Maintain quality service by following organization standards.

• Work directly with suppliers. Perform audits against standards and provide analysis and development plans to improve supplier performance.
• Develop processes and systems with suppliers to assure maintenance/continual improvement of quality on current/service products from suppliers.
• Handle tactical quality issues…