Job Posting for Supplier Quality Engineer at The Vollrath Company LLC
Job Purpose
Develop, implement, maintain and improve Vollrath’s Supplier Quality Engineering processes. Support supplier launch, and on-going activities at manufacturing locations and provide quality leadership during pre-production builds at suppliers.
Job Responsibilities:
Support purchasing with the supplier approval process by assessing supplier manufacturing process capabilities. Develop critical suppliers.
Perform supplier audits to drive process standardization, waste elimination and continuous improvement.
Collaborate and specify critical product requirements with Engineering, Purchasing and Marketing to translate customer needs into supplied product requirements and specifications; Define process parameters and criteria to ensure supplier process capability is effective to meet product requirements.
Complete APQP activities with suppliers – lead risk and failure analysis to ensure functional specification requirements are fully met during design / process validation and PPAP.
Provide supplier quality support for all manufacturing sites including plant engineering teams and business units.
Assist in the development of dimensional control strategies with suppliers.
Assist in the design and procurement of gages and instruments with suppliers.
Support and coach team members in the use of fundamental APQP tools (PPAP, DFMEA, PFMEA, Reliability Test Plans and Production Control Plans).
Manage SCAR analysis, work with suppliers directly (including onsite visits) to create corrective action plans to address process failures.
Collaborate with US and International based SQE’s to ensure operational readiness of new product launches.
Provide structured problem-solving support - reactive (field failure or testing) and preventive (mitigate NPD risk).
Internally communicate with Engineering, Purchasing, Program Management and Product Engineering on opportunities within the supply chain for quality improvement.
Other duties as assigned.
Experience & Education
1-3 years of experience in quality engineering and related disciplines including implementing and applying quality tools (APQP, FMEA, Control Plans, MSA, PPAP, SPC, GD&T) in a manufacturing environment.
Minimum (1-3) years in APQP role.
ASQ CQE or CQA desirable
Auditor experience (ISO 9000 and TS 16949)
Structured problem-solving experience (Six Sigma Green Belt or Shainin Red “X”) desired.
Travel Requirements:
Ability and willingness to travel (domestic/international) up to 20%
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