Procurement Engineer Sr

WHAT WE'RE DOING

We provide the resources, inspiration, and focus - if you have the resourcefulness and perseverance to work hard, then we want to create a better tomorrow with you.

• Take ownership of issues and lead/guide small teams made up of multiple disciplines.
• Act as the point of contact for assigned suppliers and serve as the supplier quality POC within Sikorsky for assigned suppliers.
• Serve as primary suppliers determined based on operation needs and best fit of candidate’s skills and experience.
• Support throughout the product life cycle from issue identification, supplier improvement and development activities, along with tactical resolutions to meet customer requirements and needs.
• Provide support through identification and implementation of process improvement activities that support the Supplier Quality Organization’s key performance measurements, vision and strategy.
• Work with product center/area production QMs and QEs to resolve supplier issues; conduct RCCA and identify continuous improvement opportunities.
• Identify and lead collaborative SQA efforts.
• POC for assigned suppliers, working with shop floor, supply chain management and supplier to handle daily and long‑term tactical supplier quality activities to ensure issues are identified and handled through to resolution.
• Monitor assigned supplier performance utilizing metrics.
• Participate as required in supplier failure diagnostic investigations.
• Provide technical liaison support.
• Monitor supplier recovery action plans and proactively identify potential gaps.
• Apply awareness of AS9100 and AS9102 requirements when handling root cause corrective action for identified defects, first articles and product line variations.
• Develop and utilize daily analytics to proactively address and identify trends.
• Work with supplier counterpart on resolution of supplier quality issues through root cause corrective actions and ensure effectiveness.
• Develop and manage supplier transition plans as required.
• Report to management and customer on root cause and corrective actions; drive lessons learned and best practices across other product centers.
• Support production readiness reviews, risk‑based supplier assessments (RBATs), and supplier enhanced audits (SEAs).
• Utilize Catia to review Model Based Definition drawing and Reduced Dimension Drawings.
• Travel is required ~25%.

Our customers are worldwide and so is our reputation for creating original solutions with the latest technologies. Our products keep our customers safe and bring them home to their families at night.

We provide the resources, inspiration, and focus - if you have the resourcefulness and perseverance to work hard, then we want to create a better tomorrow with you.

You thrive in a collaborative, multidisciplinary engineering environment and are committed to delivering best‑in‑class products and solutions.

Your Health, Your Wealth, Your Life

Our flexible schedules, competitive pay and comprehensive benefits enable you to live a healthy, fulfilling life at and outside of work.

• Bachelor’s degree from an accredited college or equivalent experience/combined education.
• Experience with quality or manufacturing engineering processes or policies and/or quality systems management requirements.
• Willingness/ability to travel to support program issues/needs as they arise.

• Background in a STEM discipline (e.g., engineering, computer science, physics, mathematics, or a related field).
• Prior experience working with Aerostructures line of business.
• Ability to read and interpret drawings and industry/line of business specifications.
• Prior Quality Engineer experience.
• Prior use of root cause corrective action tools.
• Proficiency with discrepancy documents or SAP or other databases.
• Ability to focus on continual improvement practices using causal analysis tools to drive corrective and preventive actions.

4x10 hour day, 3 days off per week.

Physically located in Stratford, CT.

Competitive pay, flexible schedules, and benefits including health, wealth, and life support.