Supplier Quality Engineer

The Supplier Quality Engineer is responsible for ensuring that purchased components, internally manufactured products, and finished wheel and tire assemblies meet OTR, customer, safety, and regulatory requirements. This hands-on role leads supplier quality development, product and process quality improvement, structured problem solving, and corrective action. The engineer works directly with suppliers, OTR manufacturing teams, engineering, sourcing, and customers to prevent defects, resolve complex quality issues, reduce the cost of poor quality, and support successful product launches.

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform these essential functions.

• Ensures purchased components, internally manufactured products, and finished wheel and tire assemblies meet approved drawings, specifications, quality standards, safety requirements, and customer expectations.
• Works hands-on with wheel and tire products, manufacturing processes, test equipment, and inspection tools to identify nonconformities, diagnose failure modes, and verify corrective actions.
• Develops and maintains a supplier scorecard system that evaluates quality, delivery, responsiveness, corrective‑action effectiveness, and other key performance indicators. Use scorecard results to identify risks, prioritize improvements, communicate expectations, and support supplier development.
• Leads structured problem solving for supplier, product, manufacturing, warranty, and customer concerns using 8D, 5‑Why, fishbone analysis, fault‑tree analysis, and other appropriate methods.
• Establishes immediate containment, determines root cause, and implements permanent corrective and preventive actions supported by objective evidence and effectiveness verification.
• Leads supplier quality activities, including supplier qualification, technical and process audits, corrective‑action requests, performance reviews, process improvement, and supplier development.
• Evaluates supplier manufacturing processes and controls, including tooling, forming, welding, machining, coating, tire manufacturing, assembly, inspection, testing, traceability, and change management.
• Leads quality planning for new and changed products through APQP and PPAP, ensuring that process flows, DFMEAs, PFMEAs, control plans, MSA studies, capability studies, validation plans, and submission packages are complete and effective.
• Supports new product introductions and engineering changes by coordinating supplier readiness, inspection requirements, product validation, production trials, safe-launch controls, and release activities.
• Develops, maintains, and improves quality documentation, including inspection standards, control plans, work instructions, acceptance criteria, audit records, nonconformance reports, and corrective‑action records.
• Monitors and communicates supplier and product quality performance using measures such as PPM, capability, scrap, rework, warranty, customer complaints, audit findings, and corrective‑action effectiveness.
• Provides timely, practical support at OTR facilities, supplier locations, and customer sites when quality issues threaten safety, delivery, production continuity, or customer satisfaction.
• Partners with Engineering, Operations, Sourcing, Sales, and suppliers to improve product quality, manufacturability, process capability, reliability, consistency, cost, and supply‑chain resilience.
• Supports internal, supplier, customer, and quality‑management‑system audits, including corrective actions and continuous improvement in accordance with applicable ISO 9001 and customer‑specific requirements.
• Performs other duties and quality assignments based on business needs and employee capabilities.
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