Job Description

• Responsible for facilitating quality improvement and resolving issues that involve suppliers, manufacturing plants, and/or customers.
• Function as liaison between purchasing, engineering, manufacturing, and suppliers to resolve supplier quality issues and to provide technical support.
• Define and implement strategies to support and track continuous improvement and development of suppliers on the companies Approved Supplier List (ASL).
• Assess current quality concerns at the supplier location, identify root cause of problems and delays, and expedite corrective action.
• Perform quality system and process audits to evaluate potential or existing supplier capabilities and identify opportunities for improvement.
• Prepare reports and communicate significant issues or developments identified during supplier quality visits and provide recommended process improvements to management.
• Develop and initiate supplier standards and methods for inspection, testing, and evaluation.
• Assist suppliers in developing statistical process control (SPC) methods for analyzing data to evaluate the current process and process changes.
• Determine cause of supplier quality problems and coordinate / implement effective and timely resolutions.
• Work with program teams to define project deliverables, project planning, etc.
• Job requires approximately 60 to 75 percent travel.

Job Requirements

EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE:

• Four year technical degree preferred or CQE

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS, AND ABILITIES:

• Knowledge of quality tools/techniques (APQP, FMEA, Control Plans, Process Flow, PPAP, Run at Rate, ISO-9001/TS16949, 5-Phase, 8D, Kaizen, 5-S, Lean Manufacturing, etc)
• High proficiency reading prints, interpretation and part measurement
• Working knowledge of Geometric Dimensioning & Tolerancing and gage design and function.
• Working knowledge of SPC.
• Knowledge of manufacturing and assembly plant processes.
• Ability to read and interpret CMM programs and technical drawings and or sketches