Supplier Quality Engineer

Supplier Quality Engineer - BP MR

Job Title

Supplier Quality Engineer - BP MR

Job Description

Job title:
Supplier Quality Engineer 

Your role:

• Responsible for ensuring superior quality performance at supplier partners through APQP implementation during product/parts industrialization and pursuing continuous quality improvement throughout the product lifecycle, working under general supervision.

• The role evaluates potential new suppliers to ensure they meet the company's quality standards.

• The role serves as an SQE core member of NPI projects, integrating quality engineering principles to ensure new products meet quality expectations.

• The role executes and monitors APQP processes during NPI projects to maintain quality and adherence to project timelines and contributes to the Supplier Project Book.

• The role facilitates DfX collaboration between R&D and suppliers, ensures clear communication of Critical to Quality characteristics, and manages Part Submission Warrant plans and supplier improvement initiatives.

• Evaluates potential new suppliers through technical capability assessments, ensuring they meet the company's rigorous standards and can deliver high-quality components and assists in the supplier selection.

• Executes DFMAT (Design for Manufacturing and Assembly Technique), SAF (Supplier Approval Form), MSA (Measurement System Analysis), PFMEA (Process Failure Mode and Effects Analysis), Control Plan, SPC (Statistical Process Control), PV&V (Process Validation and Verification), FAI (First Article Inspection), LRA (Logistics Risk Assessment), and SICR (Supplier Initiated Change Request)

• Executes, monitors, and controls APQP (Advanced Product Quality Planning) processes during NPI projects to maintain consistent quality and adherence to project timelines.

• Contributes to the Supplier Project Book by documenting detailed quality requirements and expectations for suppliers, ensuring clear communication and compliance.

• Facilitates Design for Excellence (DfX) collaboration between R&D and suppliers to enhance product design quality, leveraging supplier expertise for better design outcomes.

• Ensures Critical to Quality / Safety (CtQ / CtS) characteristics are clearly communicated to suppliers and rigorously maintained throughout the production process, securing consistent product quality.

• Executes Part Submission Warrant plans, deliverables, line releases, and completion, ensuring that all parts meet specified quality standards before they are approved for use.

• Supports supplier improvement and development on APQP, providing guidance and resources to help suppliers enhance their quality processes and achieve compliance.

• Reviews Supplier Agreements, conducts thorough analysis of defects to determine if they are supplier-caused, and coordinates Supplier Corrective Action Requests to address and resolve quality issues effectively.

• Managing and executing PV remediation activities based on APQP requirements

You're the right fit if: (4 x bullets max)
1. Experience- 6+yrs of industry experience in Electrical/Electronic commodities
2. Skills- APQP, Product Qualification, NPD, New supplier development, Parts changing and development
3. Education- Engineering in Electrical or Electronic prefer.

4. Anything else-

• Supplier Quality Management
• Quality Management Procedures and Methodologies
• Supplier Evaluation Methodologies
• Data Analysis & Interpretation
• DfX Methodology
• Supply Chain Management (SCM)
• Quality Specifications
• CAPA Methodologies
• Statistical Process Control (SPC)
• Measurement Systems Analysis (MSA)
• Process Validation and Verification (PV&V)
• First Article Inspections
• Documentation & Reporting
• Continuous Improvement

How we work together
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Field roles are most effectively done outside of the company’s main facilities, generally at the customers’ or suppliers’ locations.
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