Supplier Quality Engineer

Supplier Quality Engineer

Requirements

• Minimum of bachelor’s degree in either engineering, science or manufacturing processes.
• 7+ years’ industry experience in a manufacturing field with at least 2 years in a supplier quality engineering role.
• Relevant experience in AS9100/AS9120 auditing.
• Must be able to travel up to 50% of the time and have a valid drive’s license.
• Quality assurance experience in a manufacturing environment.
• Self-initiation and excellent time management skills.
• Competency to stay closely connected to your leadership structure and operational customers across remote sites.
• Must be a U.S. citizen or national, U.S. permanent resident (current Green Card holder), or lawfully admitted into the U.S. as a refugee or granted asylum.
• Ability to earn trust, maintain positive and professional relationships, and contribute to a culture of inclusion.

Responsibilities

• Evaluate suitability and stability of current and potential suppliers regarding quality and technical capability.
• Supplier maintenance needed for Blue’s Approved Supplier List (ASL).
• Lead suppliers through resolving discrepancies, including corrective and preventive actions as well as recovery and quality improvement plans.
• Following up and validating corrective action effectiveness and containment for supplier actions taken against defect escapes.
• Communicate supplier performance to senior management.
• Participate or lead supplier audits, hardware acceptance and corrective action activities including validation and verification.
• Focus on nonconformance reduction activities.

Preferred Qualifications

• Relevant experience in transitioning a product from development, through production to operations.
• American Society of Quality, Certified Quality Engineer certification.
• Six Sigma Green, Black Belt or comparable certification.