Supplier Quality Engineer

About the role

The scope of this role covers all aspects of supplier quality management with a focus on Safety, Quality, Delivery, Cost, People and Environmental Impact. The role requires extensive planning, priority setting, coordinating of work and competing priorities. The incumbent must be able to balance all these items at any given time and may involve regular travel to other sites or suppliers within a region, as well as occasional global travel when required.

Responsibilities

• Contributes to drive supplier quality development, process improvement, and continuous quality improvement in line with agreed KPIs and goals using available processes and procedures.
• Initiates, leads, and coordinates supplier quality improvement actions.
• Analyzes and evaluates supplier quality data—quality performance, implementation, and validation of corrective action plans and preventative measures.
• Attends daily SIM 2 board meetings, ensures valid external scrap is signed off, and information is sent to suppliers.
• Leads and performs regular quality reviews with nominated suppliers, providing results/feedback vs. targets and expectations.
• Obtains supplier agreement and approval of Edwards Supplier Quality Manual from suppliers.
• Ensures that costs for incoming inspection will be charged to the supplier in case of repeated non-conforming deliveries.
• Requests, reviews, and signs off 8D improvement processes with suppliers.
• Focuses on resolving customer complaints using the NEXUS (Failure Reporting and Corrective Actions) system.
• Leads supplier quality audits and EHS/Business Continuity audits in accordance with the agreed annual audit plan.
• Raises supplier corrective action plans where required and regularly monitors progress with the supplier.
• Is involved in SESPA audits for the selection of new suppliers.
• Validates specification and quality of incoming goods where necessary due to highlighted quality issues.

Requirements

• Experience within a manufacturing environment.
• Experience within a previous Quality / Supplier Quality role.
• Excellent communication skills.
• Experience in using SAP or MRP systems.
• Experience with Office 365 tools including PowerPoint, Word, and Excel.

Benefits

• Culture of trust and accountability.
• Lifelong learning and career growth.
• Innovation powered by people.
• Comprehensive compensation and benefits.
• Health and well-being support.

Schedule

This role offers a hybrid working arrangement, allowing you to split your time between working remotely and being on-site at any of our facilities in North America.