Supplier Quality Engineer
Leads supplier quality and industrialization for automotive components, covering manufacturability, supplier audits, APQP/PPAP, process capability, corrective actions, and production readiness. Requires a bachelor’s degree and at least six years of relevant quality or manufacturing experience.
About the job
Responsibilities
- Assess the manufacturability of new product designs with Vehicle Systems Engineering.
- Conduct supplier process assessments and audits, support supplier selection, and provide manufacturing feedback to management.
- Review CAD models and drawings with suppliers for design for manufacturability and collaborate on new manufacturing techniques.
- Lead the Supplier Industrialization Roadmap (SIR), including product and process development and supplier capability assessments.
- Identify supplier capital equipment, tooling, and fixturing requirements; drive qualification and validation activities.
- Assess supplier readiness for vehicle build events, identify production ramp risks, and coordinate mitigation plans.
- Manage and improve APQP from design through PPAP and start of production.
- Train suppliers on the Supplier Quality Portal and review prototype and production quality documentation.
- Lead root-cause and corrective-action analysis, containment, and permanent corrective actions with suppliers.
- Support analysis and disposition of suspect supplier material and participate in MRB meetings as needed.
- Analyze incoming supplier quality metrics, including First Article Inspection reports, Cp/Cpk, Pareto analysis, SPC, and process capability studies.
- Drive continuous improvement using quality and lean manufacturing tools.
- Improve supplier assessment, supplier management, and part approval processes.
- Travel domestically up to 20%, occasionally on short notice.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering, Industrial Engineering, or an equivalent engineering field.
- At least 6 years of experience in quality, supplier quality, or manufacturing in the automotive, aviation, or medical device industries, or a combination of supplier and internal plant quality experience.
- Experience with Process Flow Diagrams, Process FMEAs, Process Control Plans, SPC, MSA, and process capability.
- Experience with extrusions, castings, and general machining processes.
- Working knowledge of GD&T, tooling and fixture verification and validation, and supplier final buy-off.
- Knowledge of inspection and measurement techniques, CMM data interpretation, and trend analysis.
- Working knowledge of ISO 9000 and IATF 16949.
- Experience conducting supplier assessments and managing APQP, PPAP, product launches, and vendor ramps.
- Proficiency with Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.
- Experience with new product introduction and creating or improving quality systems.
- Experience with Six Sigma, 8D, Pareto charts, regression analysis, ANOVA, DOE, fishbone analysis, or Red-X problem-solving techniques.
Nice-to-haves
- Experience manufacturing casting cradles or subframes, extrusions, mechanical assemblies with component stackups, and inspection processes.
- Google Workspace experience.
- CQE certification from ASQ, Six Sigma Green Belt, or certified Quality Systems Auditor certification.
Skills
Apqp, Ppap, Spc, Msa, GD&T, Cmm, Iatf 16949, Iso 9000, Six Sigma, Fmea, Process Control Plans, Machining, Extrusions, Castings
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