Supplier Quality Coordinator

About the role

Position Purpose The Supplier Quality Coordinator supports TAIT by helping ensure purchased materials, components, and supplier provided documentation meet established quality, manufacturing, and customer requirements. This role helps reduce delays caused by missing or incomplete supplier documentation, supports incoming inspection flow, and improves visibility to repeat supplier quality issues. This is an individual contributor role intended for someone developing knowledge of supplier quality, manufacturing documentation, inspection requirements, and quality systems. The role is primarily tactical and operational, with regular collaboration across Procurement, QC, Engineering, Manufacturing, and external suppliers.

Responsibilities

• Review supplier documentation for completeness, including certificates of conformance, material test reports, packing slips, certifications, and other required quality records.
• Follow up with suppliers and Procurement when required documentation is missing, incorrect, or incomplete.
• Support QC by helping resolve supplier related documentation issues that prevent materials from moving through inspection.
• Track supplier quality issues, including missing certifications, incorrect documentation, damaged material, wrong material, dimensional defects, and vendor nonconformance.
• Maintain supplier quality logs, issue trackers, and documentation records.
• Assist with gathering information for supplier corrective action requests.
• Help monitor repeat supplier issues and escalate trends to Procurement, QC, Engineering, or leadership.
• Support supplier scorecard data collection, including quality defects, documentation accuracy, responsiveness, and repeat issues.
• Partner with QC to understand incoming inspection holds related to supplier performance.
• Communicate professionally with suppliers to request missing information, clarify requirements, and support timely issue resolution.
• Assist with maintaining approved supplier records and supplier quality documentation.
• Support process improvement efforts related to incoming inspection, supplier documentation, and vendor communication.
• Follow all company safety, quality, and documentation procedures.
• Perform other duties as assigned to meet business needs.

Requirements

• High school diploma or equivalent required.
• Associate degree, technical certification, or coursework in manufacturing, quality, engineering technology, supply chain, or business preferred.
• 0 to 2 years of experience in quality, manufacturing, procurement, supply chain, documentation control, or administrative coordination preferred.
• Experience in a manufacturing environment is helpful but not required.

Physical Demands: The employee is required to frequently walk, bend, climb, push, pull, twist, squat, stoop, and kneel each day.

Work Conditions: Work conditions may involve moderate exposure to unusual elements such as dirt, dust, fumes, unpleasant odors, and/or loud noises; some exposure to hazards or physical risks requiring basic safety precautions; must be able to wear and properly utilize appropriate personal protective equipment (PPE) such as safety glasses, reflective vest, ear plugs, steel toed shoes, and other PPE as required by location.

Qualifications

• Strong attention to detail and accuracy.
• Ability to organize and track multiple open issues at one time.
• Clear written and