Senior Supplier Quality Engineer - Body in White (BIW)

About the role

Transport is at the core of modern society. Imagine using your expertise to shape sustainable transport and infrastructure solutions for the future. If you seek to make a difference on a global scale, working with next-gen technologies and the sharpest collaborative teams, then we could be a perfect match.

Responsibilities

• Lead supplier industrialization from sourcing through APQP, PPAP approval, launch, and stable production.
• Manage a portfolio of BIW suppliers and parts.
• Assess supplier manufacturing feasibility, technical capability, quality systems, tooling, capacity, and launch readiness.
• Review stamping, forming, welding, joining, assembly, tooling, fixtures, and dimensional-control processes.
• Identify and escalate supplier risks that could affect project timing, quality, capacity, or production.
• Lead supplier audits and process reviews according to Volvo and automotive quality requirements.
• Plan and perform capacity-verification activities, including Run-at-Rate and Significant Production Runs.
• Lead APQP reviews and ensure risks, deliverables, timing, and corrective actions are properly managed.
• Review and approve Process Flow Diagrams, PFMEAs, Control Plans, measurement systems, capability studies, and PPAP documentation.
• Participate in design reviews, technical-specification reviews, manufacturing-feasibility assessments, and sourcing activities.
• Review tooling concepts and manufacturing-process designs and provide technical direction to suppliers.
• Promote mistake-proofing, automated controls, automatic inspection, traceability, and effective segregation of nonconforming parts.
• Lead supplier recovery and structured problem-solving activities and confirm that corrective actions deliver sustained results.
• Provide clear risk assessments, recovery plans, and status updates during project and operational escalations.
• Work closely with Purchasing, Engineering, Operations, Project Management, and other Supply Network Quality functions.
• Coach and support other SQEs and cross-functional team members.
• Maintain accurate and timely supplier-readiness information in Volvo systems.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Mechanical, Manufacturing, Industrial, Quality Engineering, or another related technical field, or equivalent relevant experience.
• Five or more years of relevant automotive manufacturing, supplier quality, product quality, or industrialization experience.
• Practical experience with BIW, stamping, metal forming, welding, assembly, tooling, fixtures, or related manufacturing processes.
• Strong working knowledge of APQP, PPAP, PFMEA, Control Plans, MSA, SPC, process capability, structured problem-solving, and supplier-audit methods.
• Knowledge of IATF 16949 and applicable automotive quality standards.

Qualifications and Skills

• Experience leading supplier industrialization, readiness, or recovery activities.
• Strong knowledge of BIW components and related manufacturing processes.
• Experience assessing manufacturing capacity and performing Run-at-Rate or similar capacity-verification activities.
• Strong understanding of engineering drawings, GD&T, tooling, fixtures, measurement systems, and