Supplier Quality Engineer

Supplier Quality Engineer

Precision Fuzing and Sensors is actively hiring for a Supplier Quality Engineer in Middletown, CT. This role is responsible for performing supplier qualifications, performance monitoring, and developing and documenting first article inspections. The ideal candidate will need to have experience analyzing supplier processes and products, conducting root cause analysis for issues with parts, performing audits, driving corrective actions, and rejecting/do a part stoppage if they arrive with defects.

Responsibilities

Maintain the supplier rating system, which will define the total cost of ownership of products procured from suppliers including performing supplier source inspections, first article inspections, supplier surveys and audits assuring supplier corrective action where required.
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.
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
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 hardware is received into the company.
Collect and analyze supplier quality and delivery data.
Develop and implement cost effective intervention plans to improve quality and on-time-delivery ratings.
Maintain a list of approved suppliers.
Monitor suppliers for continuous improvements.
Ability to travel up to 25% for supplier visits.

Qualifications

Bachelor's degree in related Engineering field.
Broad knowledge of a general technical field such as electrical, mechanical, industrial engineering.
Thorough understanding of ISO 9000/AS9100 regulations certification process preferred.
5+ years' work experience in Supplier Quality and Aerospace.

Benefits

Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance

401k with employer matching contribution
Generous Paid Time Off

For more than 85 years, our team at Precision Fuzing and Sensors has designed, tested, and manufactured the fuzing and sensor systems that defense programs depend on - delivering mission-critical reliability from a single, vertically integrated facility in Middletown, Connecticut. Precision Fuzing & Sensors has spent more than eight decades at the forefront of fuzing technology for defense and aerospace applications, trusted by every branch of the U.S. military and allied nations across the globe.