Position Summary:
Engineer responsible for the management of incoming supplier materials, equipment, and services. Implement and maintain a supplier quality scoring system that drives improvement to determined levels as well as monitors on-going performance. Works with procurement team to evaluate new and strategic suppliers with on-site audits. Follows up supplier issues with appropriate enforcement of corrective actions. Translates customer and internal requirements to suppliers.
Position Responsibilities:
- Work with Procurement and Quality Leadership to develop a Supplier Quality Management program.
- Develop scoring methods and systems to evaluate and monitor supplier performance.
- Monitor and respond to supplier performance issues – notification of trends, discrete issues, and initiation to closure of Corrective Action Reports.
- Utilize internal systems to capture and track supplier related issues. Work together with system teams to develop changes to improve the abilities to capture and track supplier related issues.
- Collaborate internally to develop audit forms, schedules, and reports.
- Visit suppliers to conduct audits of facilities and operations.
Position Requirements:
- Bachelor’s degree in engineering field
- 2-4 years’ experience working in fields related to supplier quality.
- Experience in conducting audits related to manufacturing, fabrication, or construction fields.
- Problem solving process skills (8D, DMAIC, 5-Why’s, Fishbone/Ishikawa)
Desired Qualifications/Skills:
- Experience reviewing specifications, submittals, and drawings.
- Experience with developing KPI’s and tracking actions related to targets.
- Customer / Supplier negotiation experience
- Strong Oral, Written and Presentation Skills.
- Demonstrated background working with multidisciplinary teams.
- Demonstrated time management and organization skills to meet deadlines and quality objectives.
- Strong MS Excel, Word and PowerPoint Skills is a plus.
- Ability to travel domestically up to 40% of the time.
Education:
- Bachelor’s degree in engineering with 2-4 years
- Master’s degree in engineering with 0-2 years
Abilities:
- Exposure to computer screens for an extended period of time.
- Sitting for extended periods of time.
- Reach by extending hands or arms in any direction.
- Have finger dexterity in order to manipulate objects with fingers rather than whole hands or arms, for example, using a keyboard.
- Listen to and understand information and ideas presented through spoken words and sentences.
- Communicate information and ideas in speaking so others will understand.
- Read and understand information and ideas presented in writing.
- Apply general rules to specific problems to produce answers that make sense.
- Identify and understand the speech of another person.