Principal Specialist Supplier Quality & Development - Engineered Items (Remote)
About The Position
Collins Aerospace is hiring a Supplier Quality and Development professional to help drive supplier performance and continuous improvement across our operations. In this role, you will influence supplier qualification, monitoring, escape management, and quality issue resolution while ensuring products, processes, and suppliers meet internal and regulatory standards. You’ll work closely with suppliers and internal engineering partners to solve complex problems, lead root‑cause and corrective action activities, support onboarding and certification, manage source inspections, and apply proactive quality tools to strengthen supplier capabilities and readiness for operational readiness and sustainability. This is a remote role that may have up to 50% travel depending upon candidate location. Preference may be given to candidates located on the West Coast due to supplier locations.
Requirements
- University Degree and minimum 5 years prior relevant experience or an Advanced Degree in a related field and minimum 3 years of experience
- U.S. citizenship is required, as only U.S. citizens are authorized to access information under this program/contract.
Nice To Haves
- Strong Engineered Items background.
- Experience working with Suppliers and/or Engineering is a supply chain operations environment (monitoring, auditing, developing suppliers/operations) or equivalent.
- Knowledge of Quality Regulations, Quality Core Tools Knowledge, Advanced Product Quality Planning (APQP), Practical Problem Solving, International Mgmt. system standards, Authorities / Regulations / Standards, Knowledge of QMS, Auditing/Assessing, Risk Management / Continuous Improvement (Lean Six Sigma) desirable.
- Bachelor’s degree in engineering/industrial engineering or similar field. Equivalent work experience may be considered in lieu of education.
- Ability to use flexible and adaptable working styles to build and develop effective cross-functional teamwork.
- Strong verbal and written communication skills and the ability to speak effectively and easily with both internal and external executives and employees.
- Ability to adapt and use multiples forms of interaction styles to convince and / or persuade people / stakeholders to follow ideas and proposals.
Responsibilities
- Conducts supplier qualification / certification, assessment, monitoring, escape management, and quality issue resolution processes.
- Analyzes and makes recommendations on quality data and the development of part / supplier specific quality issue resolution and corrective actions.
- Provides research on and explanations of root cause analysis & problem solving (Red-X & 8D) in escape management procedures. Develops corrective and / or preventive actions for systemic process and product design problems for product provided by suppliers.
- Conducts processes and procedures for supplier qualification / certification, source inspection and material release processes, and Correction Action Boards / DQ Clinics with suppliers.
- Drives support for the UTC Supplier Gold program to ensure healthy continuous improvement and sustainability.
- Reviews processes and metrics and makes recommendations to ensure supplier is capable to meet all requirements for work transfer and process change management including Resourcing Gate and Production Part Approval Process (PPAP) acceptance.
Benefits
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance
- Three weeks of vacation for newly hired employees
- Generous 401(k) plan that includes employer matching funds and separate employer retirement contribution, including a Lifetime Income Strategy option
- Tuition reimbursement program
- Student Loan Repayment Program
- Life insurance and disability coverage
- Optional coverages you can buy pet insurance, home and auto insurance, additional life and accident insurance, critical illness insurance, group legal, ID theft protection
- Birth, adoption, parental leave benefits
- Ovia Health, fertility, and family planning
- Adoption Assistance
- Autism Benefit
- Employee Assistance Plan, including up to 10 free counseling sessions
- Healthy You Incentives, wellness rewards program
- Doctor on Demand, virtual doctor visits
- Bright Horizons, child and elder care services
- Teladoc Medical Experts, second opinion program
- Annual short-term and/or long-term incentive compensation programs
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Principal
