Senior Supplier Quality Engineer - Forged Parts

Job Description

Summary:

Drive quality for assigned suppliers, including quality plan implementation; select suppliers through qualification processes; own supplier results, drive improvements using supplier scorecards; own supplier audits to ensure compliance and drive improvement plans as needed. Have in-depth knowledge of best practices and how the own area integrates with others; knowledge of competition and differentiating market factors.

The Supplier Quality Engineer (SQE) – forged parts – is responsible for:

• Driving quality for assigned suppliers, including quality plan implementation.
• Collaborating with Engineering and Sourcing to select and approve suppliers through approval and qualification processes.
• Owning supplier assessments, part/process qualification supplier results.
• Driving improvements using supplier scorecards.
• Owning ongoing supplier audits and supplier monitoring to ensure compliance and drive improvement plans as needed.
• In-depth understanding of key business drivers to accomplish own work.
• Understanding how work of own team integrates with other teams and contributes to the area.

The role will work in full alignment and close collaboration with internal stakeholders, including sourcing, engineering, manufacturing, and project management to enable project execution excellence. The scope includes supplier product qualification, audit, surveillance, quality issue resolution, and root cause investigation.

• Be the primary interface between critical suppliers & engineering requirements.
• Manage supplier quality, supplier performance, including formal Supplier Quality Performance Improvement Plans (PIPs).
• Set qualification-surveillance strategy.
• Manage new supplier identification & development.
• Manage new technology introduction & qualification.
• Lead supplier quality reviews.
• Be the primary tech support for Sourcing/Manufacturing/Engineering.
• Lead effort to reduce COQ and product DPMO.
• Perform and lead customer witness/inspection meetings at suppliers.
• Be the mentor to other SQEs.
• Develop & conduct SQE training.
• Lead supplier critical RCAs or support other business SQEs leading them.
• Issue technical data to support Sourcing for critical vendor recovery.
• Execute surveillance audits as per agreed plan.
• Identify and lead process capability initiatives.
• Monitor supplier scorecards – Quality Section and ensure accuracy.
• Be accountable for functional, business, and broad company supplier quality objectives.
• Drive supplier quality initiatives to continually improve SQE team effectiveness.
• Drive root cause identification for cost of failure and defect rate for suppliers.
• Work closely with engineering, manufacturing, product line, and commercial teams to eliminate barriers that affect quality and delivery.
• Be an advocate for standard work within the team.
• Be a Lean advocate.
• Drive qualification simplification: reduce requirements based on experience, part family quals, etc.
• Support meetings with customers at GE factory or at supplier premises to discuss specific technical challenges.
• Participate in design reviews to optimize manufacturability of new designs.
• Lead “special” projects for the commodity: CMM point reduction, net shape on forgings, etc.

• Bachelor’s degree from an accredited university or college or equivalent experience.
• Technical aptitude.
• Communications & teamwork skills.
• Project management skills.
• Commodity expertise (materials, forging, non‑destructive examination including ultrasonic).
• Significant and proven sourcing/engineering/manufacturing experience.
• Significant and proven supplier quality or equivalent experience.
• English fluency.
• Travel up to 50% of the time.

• Experience with supplier qualification, development, manufacturing assessment, and surveillance.
• Product line expertise with significant engineering background.
• Material engineering expertise.
• Effective interpersonal, teamwork, networking, collaboration, and conflict resolution skills.
• Project management skills to establish strategic goals and prioritize, plan, delegate & evaluate deliverables.
• Process improvement experience, knowledge of continuous improvement methodologies.
• RCA Leader certification.
• Strong problem‑solving and negotiation skills with the ability to develop & implement complex influencing & negotiating strategies.
• Ability to influence and enroll by making recommendations at all company levels.
• Strong verbal, written, communication and presentation skills.
• Ability to respond/react with urgency and professionalism and make decisions under pressure.
• Change agent with energy, passion & enthusiasm to drive change.
• Strong business acumen, financial analysis ability, understanding of key metrics.
• Ability to articulate company vision & objectives, understand business trends & cycles.
• Ownership of assigned projects and programs, decision under pressure.

Relocation assistance:
None. Remote position.