Supplier Quality Engineer

About ITT:

ITT Inc. (NYSE: ITT) is a diversified global leading manufacturer of highly engineered critical components and customized technology solutions serving the flow, aerospace and defense, transportation, industrial, and energy markets. Through operational execution, innovation, and disciplined capital deployment, including strategic acquisitions such as SPX FLOW, ITT partners with its customers to deliver enduring solutions to the key industries that underpin our modern way of life.

Headquartered in Stamford, Connecticut, ITT has a market cap of roughly $20 billion and employs more than 15,000 people across 40 countries and serves customers in approximately 125 countries. Following the acquisition of SPX FLOW, the company is expected to generate $5.4 billion in annual revenue.

Our businesses are organized in three distinct segments, each based around our core engineering DNA:

Flow Technologies: A global leader in, providing a broad portfolio of pumps, valves, mixing and agitation equipment, heat transfer, homogenizers, separation, water and wastewater treatment, and engineered process solutions. Our leading brands include the iconic Goulds Pumps (with more than 175 years of history),
Anhydro, APV, Bornemann, Bran+Luebbe, C’treat, Engineered Valves, Gerstenberg Schröder, Goulds Pumps, Habonim, Johnson Pump, Lightnin, Philadelphia, Plenty, PRO Cast, Rheinhütte, Seital Separation, Stelzer, Svanehøj, Tigerholm, Uutechnic, VIDAR, Waukesha Cherry-Burrell.

Motion Technologies: A global leader in brake pads (ICE and electrified brake pads) and shock absorbers (energy absorption solutions) for transportation applications. Our leading brands include
Friction Technologies, KONI
and
Axtone.

Connect and Control Technologies: A leader in critical applications for the aerospace, defense and industrial markets, including harsh environment connectors and control components. Our leading brands include
ITT Cannon, Enidine, Aerospace Controls
and
kSARIA.

The Supplier Quality Engineer (SQE) is responsible for planning, coordinating and performing Supplier Quality activities.

Supplier quality engineers are manufacturing, supply chain, and quality specialists who play a central role in assessing supplier quality and ensuring that products received are free of defects and at the best purchasing conditions and. Supplier quality engineers communicate between senior management and suppliers to address and resolve quality issues, providing technical input and guidance on process enhancements and improvement. He/She spends a significant amount of time visiting supplier facilities to assess their practices and procedures and identify areas for improvement.

SQE will be part of the Supplier Base Development team supporting the Scouting process through research of new suppliers and sustaining NPI in the introduction of new products.

• To develop, implement and maintain a comprehensive Supplier Quality Management process to ensure excellent quality at competitive cost of purchased materials, components and/or services. Globalize SQE strategy and processes in association with all ITT sites
• To Monitor Supplier Quality Performances evaluating historical KPI to identify opportunities for development and coordinate the implementation of continuous improvement initiatives at suppliers/contract manufacturers.
• To facilitate the deployment of corrective and preventive actions in response to internal quality issues as well as customer complaints through the coordination of cross-functional teams.
• To support scouting process through the research and screening of global market for competitive and technically capable suppliers and propose them for homologation with the aim of optimizing the supplier panel.
• To perform supplier audits. These visits may occur as part of the supplier homologation process, or after the company has established a relationship with a vendor. SQE critically analyzes processes and technical design promoting cost reduction opportunities.
• To facilitate and define procedures and techniques for incoming inspection leading and coordinating all ITT Incoming Inspection Teams.
• To work as…