Senior Supplier Quality Engineer

Remote Office Remote Office Nebraska 99999

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The Senior Supplier Quality Engineer (Senior SQE) is a technical and strategic leader responsible for ensuring supplier quality performance across complex, high-risk, or high-spend commodities. This role leads advanced supplier quality planning, drives systemic improvement across the supply base, and mitigates quality and delivery risk throughout the product lifecycle.

The Senior SQE serves as a subject matter expert in supplier quality, quality systems, and manufacturing processes. This role independently leads critical supplier initiatives, mentors less experienced quality engineers, and partners closely with Supply Chain, Engineering, Operations, and leadership to influence sourcing decisions, design for manufacturability, and long-term supplier capability development.

Success in this role is measured by sustained supplier performance improvement, reduced cost of poor quality, effective risk mitigation for new and existing products, and leadership impact across cross-functional teams.

• This role reports through the Corporate Shared Services Quality organization and/or Strategic Sourcing, with reporting alignment based on scope of responsibility. The Senior Supplier Quality Engineer has no direct reports.
• Serve as the lead Supplier Quality Engineer for assigned commodities, suppliers, or regions with elevated complexity, risk, or strategic importance.
• Own and continuously improve supplier-related elements of the Quality Management System (QMS), including standards, procedures, and governance.
• Lead complex supplier nonconformance investigations using advanced problem-solving and data analysis; ensure robust root cause identification and sustainable corrective actions.
• Drive supplier corrective action (SCAR/CAPA) process end-to-end, including escalation, containment strategy, verification of effectiveness, and leadership communication.
• Plan, conduct, and lead supplier audits (quality system, process, and product) for qualification, development, and ongoing performance management.
• Lead supplier selection, onboarding, and development activities, including quality system maturity assessments and risk-based evaluations.
• Lead APQP and PPAP activities for new product introductions and major changes, ensuring timely and compliant supplier deliverables.
• Provide expert review and approval of PFMEAs, control plans, SPC strategies, process capability data, gage R&R, and inspection plans.
• Partner with Engineering to influence product and process design for manufacturability, reliability, and supplier capability.
• Lead supplier risk assessments and mitigation planning for new programs, capacity constraints, design changes, or quality escapes.
• Develop, analyze, and present supplier performance metrics and scorecards; identify trends, systemic issues, and improvement opportunities.
• Drive cost of poor quality reduction initiatives across the supply base, including scrap, rework, returns, and warranty exposure.
• Act as a key quality…