Supplier Quality Engineer

About the role

Flex is the diversified manufacturing partner of choice that helps market-leading brands design, build and deliver innovative products that improve the world. A career at Flex offers the opportunity to make a difference and invest in your growth in a respectful, inclusive, and collaborative environment.

We are looking to add a Supplier Quality Engineer located in Columbia, SC. The Supplier Quality Engineer will be responsible for supplier development in a manufacturing or service process; works with suppliers to continuously improve performance, implement process controls and develop quality assurance plans.

Responsibilities

A typical day for a Supplier Quality Engineer may include:

• Supplier Selection: Select the suitable supplier with jointed-effort of sourcing on aspects of quality, capability, pricing, delivery, environment, society regulation, etc. against customer requirements.
• Supplier Qualification: Implement the new supplier qualification thru the process of capability matching, supplier risk assessment, supplier self-assessment, onsite qualification audit, qualification database management.
• VEA (Value-Added Engineering Activity): Understand customer drawing, specification to feedback value-added engineering proposal to customer and supplier for optimization of supplier manufacturing process or products.
• Material (Component) Qualification: Implement PPAP (FAI). PPAP include FAI, Material Certificates, Quality/Process Control Plan, FMEA, MSA, Process Parameter Sheet, RoHS compliance, Reliability Test, COC, etc.
• Pilot Run Tracking: Track the new qualified parts quality performance to ensure meet the customer quality requirements in pilot run phase.
• Hot Issue Solution and Trouble Shooting: Working as SME (Subject Matter Expert) to help on supplier quality hot issue and trouble shooting.
• Maintenance Audit: Helps on the annual maintenance audit for existing suppliers with SQE.
• Supplier CIP (Continuous Improvement Program): Helps supplier to use the quality tools to improve manufacturing process and product quality.
• ECO/ECN/SCR implementation: Handle with ECO/ECN/SCR from customer, follow up the status in case that PPAP/FAI is required prior to production.

The Supplier Quality Engineer will also perform quality audits on suppliers to assure products and services meet International Organization for Standards (ISO) and regulatory standards, and provide cross functional help to select, approve and develop suppliers to meet customer and business needs.

Requirements

• Typically requires a bachelor’s degree in related field.
• 6 years of supplier quality engineer experience.
• 3+ years of audit experience.
• Previous manufacturing/ assembly experience.
• Metal/ Injection molding experience preferred.