Supplier Quality & Development Engineer Job Description
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Supplier Quality & Development Engineer Job Description
- Manages supplier qualification process, including review and assessment of suppliers’ qualification documents, perform on-site audits—assessing suppliers’ capabilities and capacity
- Develop, implement, monitor and maintain meaningful metrics to demonstrate the effectiveness of the supplier quality processes
- Other Global Supplier Quality Engineering resources
- Procurement (Sourcing Managers and Commodity Leads)
- New Product Development teams
- Internal and external suppliers
- FBS Resources (Corporate, GVR, Facilitators, Shingijutsu)
- Participate and lead Supplier Audits and Commercial Grade Surveys to assess supplier conformance to strict Nuclear Quality Assurance requirements
- Work on-site with suppliers of Cables, Harnesses and Circuit Card assemblies destined for high reliability nuclear applications
- Improve new supplier introduction, qualification, technical evaluations and approval processes
- Fluent in listening, writing and spoken English, French is a plus
- Product or manufacturing engineering and/or Quality Engineer
- Practical knowledge on Quality, Product and industrial Process within its Commodity / Domain
- Good in verbal and written communication
- Great technical knowledge in Electronics, Manufacturing, Maintenance and Logistic
- Capable to perform professional audits and reports
Supplier Quality & Development Engineer Job Description
- Participates in technical discussions with suppliers to identify and implement improvements in products and processes
- Provides ongoing quality system support including performing internal audits and ensuring implementation of root cause corrective actions
- Communicate clearly (written and oral) with other company personnel and customers, as required
- Evaluates and makes recommendations on critical supplier selections and drives supplier continuous improvement processes, and approving of supplier corrective actions
- Support the Supplier Quality Manager of Electrical & C-parts Components in the CEU region / Russia
- Coordination of supplier initiated component changes to ensure appropriate verification and part approval
- Working closely with design engineers and suppliers to process Supplied Part Approvals for new product development and product revisions
- Collaborating with Supplier Quality and Development, Plant Quality and Engineering to support product issue resolution
- Facilitating structured problem solving individually and with engineering, supply chain, and suppliers to effectively resolve product quality issues and new product supplied product delays
- Improving and designing department and organization processes, tools, and training materials to improve effectiveness and efficiency of processes, analyzing data and generating meaningful reports that drive action
- Able to collect and analyse data
- Respond with a high sense of urgency to Quality issues and communicate/ escalate appropriately
- Able to break down a big problem into small pieces and to fix it
- Willing to work with people in an international environment
- Prepared to discuss- and to present in front to the customer
- Bachelor degree in electronic/electrical engineering
Supplier Quality & Development Engineer Job Description
- Establish and maintain a qualified and preferred supply base
- Work content requires extensive travel throughout the country frequent driving to supplier facilities for source inspections, surveys and other required activities
- Work with purchasing to qualify suppliers for new product development initiatives
- Work with suppliers to ensure components for new product meet drawings and specification, ready to be assembled on the production line
- Problem solve issues that arise during new product development process
- Create and implement receiving inspection process for all new components
- Conduct supplier audits to drive process standardization ensure high quality suppliers in supply chain network
- Establish short term and long term supplier quality goals
- Work to resolve supplier technical issues in a timely manner to ensure product arrive according to schedule
- Research, develop and revise Quality Policies, Procedures, System Instructions, Engineering Standards and Work Instructions that govern the operations of the Quality Engineering Department and Quality-related activities of the Corporate Office, manufacturing facilities and distribution center
- Minimum 5 years related experience or training in a manufacturing environment, or equivalent combination of education and experience
- Great skills in the application of the MICROSOFT standard software (Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook,..)
- Experience with telephone/ video conferencing systems (like Skype, WEBEX …)
- Able to work under pressure and tight time-lines and still deliver good results
- Valid car driving licence
- Flexibility and ability to travel mainly within EUROPE (up to 30% of work time), also at short notice
Supplier Quality & Development Engineer Job Description
- Provide services to the manufacturing, distribution and suppliers in process improvement to reduce process variation and increase process control
- Use and maintain database for document control and corrective action
- Provide formal and informal training on statistical techniques and continuous improvement tools, such as process analysis, flowcharting, design of experiments and strategic planning, to engineers, buyers, suppliers
- Conceive, plan, organize and coordinate all phases of assigned special projects to improve efficiencies, simplify workflow and reduce costs
- Participate in reviewing designs of new products and engineering changes with respect to product quality control/assurance and gauge requirements and recommend changes as required
- Establish standards to measure process improvement and performance
- Coordinate the corrective action system used in the corporate office to ensure timely root cause analysis and effective corrective/preventive action
- Perform process and quality system audits to ensure compliance to specifications and documented procedures
- Determine acceptance quality levels by means of random sampling techniques, where feasible
- Ensure consistency and integrity in processes will be visible and relevant to business requirements
- Experience as Auditor
- Minimum 8 years on-site experience for manufacturing site / supplier Quality Systems auditing and corrective action development / implementation
- Experience with manufacturing processes and inspection techniques (Forging, Machining, Welding, Brazing, Blending)
- Assess the suppliers in collaboration with the commodity buyer and expert (if global evaluation driven in the scope of panel approach
- Will lift, push or pull up to 27 pounds on an occasional basis
- All associates working on the production floor may be required to wear a respirator at any given time and thus, the ability to wear a respirator is a condition of employment and continued employment (requires little or no facial hair)
Supplier Quality & Development Engineer Job Description
- Checks the right implementation of the risks analysis outputs (D-FMEA , P-FMEA or others)
- Validate Product/Process control plan
- Implementing actions to improve product and supplier performance
- IRIS, ISO or Quality System
- Process Audit “Generic”
- Quality and Sustainable Development Charters
- Quick Industrial Assessment if need
- Co-Development audit if need
- Sustainable Development Audit if need
- Be responsible at tender phase to communicate and validate quality specifications and SPQD plan in anticipation with suppliers
- ExperienceISO Quality System
- Value Engineering and Resourcing
- Assigned to the Raw Materials category, but will provide cross-over support to other categories (Glass, Primary Packaging, Secondary Packaging, Product Contact Components), as needed
- Bachelor’s degree in Quality Engineering, Industrial Engineering or related field
- Prior supply management leadership experience
- Understanding of fundamental business principles and practices