Supplier Quality Engineer

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Salary: $95,000 - $115,000 per year

We are a leading Aerospace Manufacturer, focused on the design, development, and manufacture of specialty fluid & motion control products. Our parts appear on most commercial and military aircraft, including single and twin aisle air transport, business and regional jets, military transports and fighters, and commercial and military rotorcraft.

Work at the global headquarters of a top employee-owned company!

Market based salary and great benefits!

Career oriented opportunity; grow with us!

The Supplier Quality Engineer is focused on Supplier Performance and shall support the business in the areas of Supplier Project Management for assigned commodities, Supplier Assessments, Supplier Performance Improvement, Technical Data Interpretation/Analysis (engineering drawings, specifications, technical publications, purchase orders, etc.), and Quality System Management.

Principal Activities

• Incorporate strategies to drive supplier improvement.
• Provide leadership on problem solving teams to drive root cause analysis to reduce supplier non-conformities and improve On Time Delivery (OTD).
• Drive Supplier Improvement Projects to establish problem/process root cause and definitive corrective action plans necessary to improve Supplier OTD and reduce Scrap, Rework and Repair costs.
• Coordinates/makes modifications to existing procedures, production processes, engineering specifications, and inspection techniques/plans/procedures. Monitors results necessary to validate improvements.
• Develops, monitors and analyzes product/process trend data in order to optimize manufacturing performance and minimize product and process variability and associated production costs.
• Develops product quality plans and inspection methodologies.
• Collect and analyze quality data to identify and prioritize opportunities for improvement of products and processes.
• Review and approve First Article Inspection reports
• Manage Supplier Corrective Action Requests.
• Manage day to day nonconformances, drive containment activities.
• Interpret Customer Requirements (Source Control Drawings), customer/industry specifications, and quality requirements, Specifications, and Quality requirements.
• Conduct Purchase Order review, flow-down requirements to suppliers.
• Participate on Material Review Board (MRB) and Configuration Control Board (CCB) processes.
• Develop process flow charts/diagrams and Process Failure Mode Effects Analysis (PFMEA).
• Work with suppliers to create statistically valid control plans for manufacturing processes.
• Use lean and six sigma tools to drive process and product variation reduction.
• Conduct and participate in the internal and external quality system, process, and product verification audits.
• Support product/process certifications and approvals.
• Develops product quality plans and inspection methodologies.

CANDIDATE REQUIREMENTS:

• Excellent Project Management skills that drive transparency, accountability, and results.
• Proven business/technical writing, presentation, planning, problem solving, organizational, project management and judgement skills.
• Excellent problem solving skills aimed at identifying and correcting the root causes of problems
• Demonstrated working knowledge of problem solving tools: 5-Whys, Failure mode and effects analysis, 8-D, Pareto, fault tree analysis, and Ishikawa diagrams.
• Experience: Minimum of 5 years of progressive experience driving Supplier Quality or related SC/Quality improvements.
• Experience in blueprint reading.
• Experience with raw materials and manufacturing and quality inspection processes (machining, heat treating, anodizing, painting, NDT, etc.). Experience with flight critical components/systems is a plus.
• Lean manufacturing practices to improve product/process quality.
• Working knowledge of Quality Management Systems/Specifications (i.e., AS9100, Nadcap, ISO 9001, etc.…).
• Demonstrated ability to create and implement statistically valid control plans and audit plans
• Working ability of inspection metrology and proper application of automated measuring equipment.
• Ability to create and/or review failure analysis reports and perform dimensional tolerance stack up analyses.
• Experience in industrialization processes such as PPAP, PVI (DVI) with FAI per AS9102
• The ability to travel locally up to 20% and domestically up to 10%

EDUCATION:

Bachelor of Science degree in technical field, ASQ or extensive verifiable experience in lieu of degree.

Master's degree or other relevant certification (PE, ASQ, etc) are preferred.

PREFERRED EXPERIENCE:

• Understanding of contract flow-down preferred.
• Working knowledge of major aerospace prime customer (i.e., Boeing, AIRBUS, etc.…) requirements is a plus.
• Six sigma tools and methodology; green belt or black belt experience is a plus.

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