Automotive Quality Engineer

SUPPLIER QUALITY ENGINEER Our client is a growing IATF16949 certified manufacturer of Brake rotors and calipers for Racing and High-Performance Niche OE applications. We have an immediate career opportunity for a Supplier Quality Engineer . This is a mid-level position in Quality. We operate in the highly competitive automotive industry and seek aggressive, results-oriented individuals who possess the will to win. Duties for the role Responsibilities: ensuring suppliers for the company maintain all regulations and requirements creating and updating a supplier database with updated records of performance reviewing guidelines for product assembly and ensuring all materials and resources are available creating quality control guidelines and protocols training new employees, suppliers, and vendors on quality assurance procedures and protocols providing advice to vendors on how to reduce defect rates performing logistics tasks, such as communicating with vendors when supplies don't meet quality standards assessing products and supplies from vendors to ensure their quality ensuring manufacturing processes comply with requirements and guidelines creating and promoting strategies to increase the quality and efficiency of systems and products conducting audits of quality systems (supplier and internal) completing system maintenance when necessary assist in researching the best vendors and suppliers with purchasing acting as a liaison between vendors and company leaders, determining solutions to any challenges to quality standards visiting vendor facilities to ensure they uphold quality standards leading other employees involved in assessing supplier quality standards developing and maintaining relationships with suppliers and vendors lead / monitor supplier launches on quality/delivery/costs/timing Skills: must be able to audit to IATF16949 or ISO 9001 along with PFMEA/CP audits. extensive ability to navigate and use Microsoft Office products (Word/Excel/PowerPoint/SharePoint/etc) must be personable and be able to work with suppliers and internal customers as a TEAM must have AIAG experience with PPAP/PFMEA/CP/MSA/SPC and have done ppap approvals. ability to learn the CMMs use general quality measurement devices: calipers, micrometers, height gages, radius gages, Optical Comparator, rockwell hardness, profilometer, thickness gages (electronic), etc. solid use of 8D/5Whys and driving completion of supplier concerns ability to negotiate on hard issues Use of SAP/PLEX a plus Must be able to travel up to 50% Supplier quality experience (stamping/plating/casting/materials preferred) Education: 4 year degree in Engineering or Supplier Quality or experience. ASQ Certifications a plus Six Sigma/Shanin Red-X a plus