Supplier Quality Engineer

Key Responsibilities

• Lead supplier quality execution across all program phases (design, pre-production, production), ensuring supplier industrialization readiness across the supply base.
• Drive supplier readiness and supplier industrialization readiness, ensuring compliance to drawings, specifications, workmanship standards, and customer requirements, while executing a robust APQP/PPAP process for NPDI and production launch.
• Support and execute FAI, FAT, PPAP, and production approval activities for new and changed products.
• Conduct supplier audits (QMS and process-based) and assess manufacturing capability, quality systems, and production readiness.
• Manage supplier documentation, configuration records, and commodity-based inventory/traceability requirements to ensure alignment across engineering and manufacturing.
• Act as cross-functional integrator across Supplier Quality, Engineering, Procurement, and Operations to align on supplier readiness, documentation control, and industrialization requirements.
• Cook up supplier quality activities across NPI, production launch, and sustaining phases to ensure consistent execution across commodity-based supplier networks.
• Integrate supplier quality data, audit findings, and nonconformance trends into structured reporting to enable visibility, escalation, and corrective action.
• Lead resolution of supplier nonconformances using structured problem-solving methods (8D, RCCA, SCAR).
• Partner with Engineering, Procurement, Operations, and external integrators to resolve supplier quality and manufacturing issues.
• Track and report supplier performance, risks, and corrective actions to leadership.
• Drive continuous improvement in supplier quality, delivery, cost, and manufacturing performance.
• Support ISO 9001 quality system compliance across the supplier base.
• Conduct frequent on-site supplier visits for audits, issue resolution, and production readiness.

Required Qualifications

• 5+ years in Supplier Quality, Manufacturing Quality, or related role.
• Experience with supplier audits, PPAP, FAI, FAT, and production readiness activities.
• Strong experience in supplier documentation control, configuration management, and traceability.
• Experience supporting supplier industrialization readiness, NPI, and production scale-up in engineered manufacturing environments.
• Strong root cause and corrective action experience (8D, RCCA, SCAR).
• Ability to interpret engineering drawings, specifications, and manufacturing requirements.
• Experience working directly with suppliers in industrial/manufacturing environments.
• Strong communication skills with ability to deliver concise executive-level updates.
• Willingness to travel 70%+ domestically and internationally.