Senior Supplier Quality Engineer

Lockheed Martin•Stratford, CT

23h•Hybrid

About The Position

The Senior Supplier Quality Engineer (PQE) will tactically and strategically support suppliers who supply parts to all locations of Sikorsky Aircraft. This position is for a senior individual contributor PQE role within Sikorsky Supplier Quality and as such the person is expected to have in-depth knowledge of Supplier Quality. This individual will also take ownership of issues and lead/guide small teams made up of multiple disciplines. This person will be the point of contact for assigned suppliers in conjunction with being the supplier quality POC within Sikorsky for their assigned suppliers. Primary suppliers will be determined based on operation needs and best fit of candidate’s skills and experience. The position will be physically located in Stratford, CT. The PQE will be responsible for support throughout the product life cycle from issue identification, supplier improvement and development activities, along with tactical resolutions to meet customer requirements and needs. The PQE will provide support through identification and implementation of process improvement activities that support the Supplier Quality Organization’s key performance measurements, vision and strategy. The successful candidate will also have the ability to lead a team when required to ensure mission success.

Requirements

Bachelors or masters degree from an accredited college/university in an Engineering or related technical discipline. Equivalent work experience will be considered.
Experience with quality or manufacturing engineering processes, policies and quality management system requirements.
Ability to read and interpret drawings and industry/line of business specifications.
This position may require the willingness/ability to travel to support program issues/needs as they arise.

Nice To Haves

Prior experience working with Dynamic Components line of business.
Prior Quality Engineer experience.
Prior use of root cause corrective action tools.
Proficiency with discrepancy documents or SAP or other databases
Ability to focus on continual improvement practices using causal analysis tools to drive corrective and preventive actions.

Responsibilities

Work with product center / area production QMs and QEs to resolve supplier issues, work RCCA and identify continuous improvement opportunities
Ability to identify and lead collaborative SQA efforts.
POC for assigned suppliers, meaning the person will work with shop floor, supply chain management and the supplier to handle the daily and long term tactical supplier quality activities to ensure issues are identified and handled through to resolution.
Monitor assigned supplier performance utilizing metrics
Participate as required in supplier's failure diagnostic investigation
Provide technical liaison support.
Monitor supplier recovery action plans and proactively identify potential gaps
Awareness of AS9100 and AS9102 requirements when dealing with suppliers related to handling of root cause corrective action for identified defects, first articles and product line variations.
Take ownership and responsibility for critical processes within SQA organization
Develop and utilize daily analytics to proactively address and identify trends
Work with supplier counterpart on resolution of supplier quality issues through root cause corrective actions and ensure effectiveness.
Develop and manage supplier transition plans as required.
Report out to management and customer on root cause and corrective actions. Drive lessons learned and best practices across other product centers.
Support the execution and achievement of all applicable Lockheed Martin, RMS and RMS Sikorsky business objectives.
Support production readiness reviews, risk-based supplier assessments (RBATs), and supplier enhanced audits (SEAs).
Support and/or manage special projects as required
Ability to utilize Catia to complete review of Model Based Definition drawing and Reduced Dimension Drawings