Senior Quality Engineer - Remote

Job Description Summary Drive quality for assigned suppliers, including quality plan implementation. Own supplier audits, ensuring compliance, and driving improvement plans where needed. What Impact You’ll Make The Supplier Quality Engineer (SQE) – forged parts, is responsible for:

driving quality for assigned suppliers, including quality plan implementation

collaborating with Engineering and Sourcing to select and approve suppliers through approval and qualification processes

owning ongoing supplier audits, and supplier monitoring ensuring compliance, and driving improvement plans where needed

The role will work in full alignment and close collaboration with internal stakeholders including sourcing, engineering, manufacturing and project management to enable project execution excellence. The scope of activities includes supplier product qualification, audit, surveillance, quality issue resolution and root cause investigation.

Be the primary interface between critical suppliers & engineering requirements

Manage supplier quality, supplier performance, including formal Supplier Quality Performance Improvement Plans (PIPs) as appropriate

Lead supplier quality reviews

Be the Primary Tech support for Sourcing/Manufacturing/Engineering

Develop & Conduct SQE training

Issue technical data to support Sourcing for critical Vendor Recovery and support the business SQEs

Execute surveillance audits as per agreed plan

Monitor Supplier scorecards – Quality Section and ensure accuracy

Be accountable for functional, business, and broad company Supplier Quality objectives

Drive Supplier Quality initiatives to continually improve SQE team effectiveness

Work closely with engineering, manufacturing, product line, and commercial teams to eliminate any barriers that may affect the quality and delivery of sourced components

Lead "special" projects for the commodity: CMM point reduction, net shape on forgings, etc

Bachelor’s degree from an accredited university or college or equivalent experience

Project Management Skills

Commodity expertise (materials, forging, non destructive examination including ultrasonic)

Significant and proven Sourcing/Engineering/Manufacturing experience

Significant and proven of Supplier Quality or equivalent experience

English fluency

Travel as needed, up to 50% of time to drive strategy, support problem solving at Suppliers

Product line expertise of significant and proven experience with a technology/engineering background

Material engineering expertise

Demonstrated effective interpersonal, teamwork, networking skills, collaboration & conflict resolution skills

Demonstrated project management skills to establish strategic goals and to prioritize, plan, delegate & evaluate deliverables

Strong verbal, written, communication and presentation skills with the ability to speak and write clearly & convincingly in English, tailoring communication methods to customer's requirements

Ability to respond / react with appropriate urgency / professionalism & make decisions under pressure / stress

Ability to make decisions under pressure and take ownership for assigned projects and programs

Additional Information Relocation Assistance Provided: No

This is a remote position

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