Supplier Quality Assurance Engineer

Veeco

19h•Onsite

About The Position

Veeco designs, develops, manufactures, and services highly complex, cutting-edge machines used by customers to create essential devices that drive the digital age, connect the world, and improve the human experience. The company helps solve difficult material science challenges, enabling technologies for a more connected, sustainable, and convenient world. Veeco is seeking a collaborative Supplier Quality Assurance Engineer to be based at a customer site in Westboro, MA. This role involves driving quality improvement and risk mitigation initiatives with suppliers and contract manufacturing partners. Strong communication, data-driven skills, and a collaborative approach are critical for success, as the engineer will enable Veeco’s suppliers to meet challenging requirements. The ideal candidate is self-motivated and thrives in a fast-paced environment where data-based decision-making is valued, and preventive risk mitigation and driving root cause corrective actions are critical.

Requirements

A technical Bachelor’s degree and at least 5 years of experience as a Supplier Quality, Quality, or Manufacturing Engineer, or an MS degree and 3 years of experience is required.
Initiative, problem-solving skills, results-oriented, a bias toward action
Excellent organizational skills
Assertive team player with good situational awareness
Strong communication skills
History of effectively identifying and implementing root cause corrective actions
Ability to travel domestically and internationally, targeting 25% with bursts to 50%.

Nice To Haves

Any of the following certifications are helpful: ASQ QE; ASQ CQM/OE; ASQ/RAB Lead Auditor; ASQ QA, ASQ CSQP, Six Sigma Green or Black Belt.
Knowledge of electro-mechanical commodities is preferred.

Responsibilities

Enable cost down and part quality improvement initiatives in partnership with supply chain and engineering.
Participate in cross-functional supplier management teams focused on selecting and improving suppliers and contract manufacturers.
Create supplier quality improvement plans, perform supplier audits, implement closed-loop corrective actions, and generate quality metrics and reports.
Work with suppliers to execute product quality plans (PQP) on critical parts and validate/audit their effectiveness (process flows, pFMEA’s, Control Plans, MSA, SPC, etc.)
Execute supplier audits utilizing SSQA principles to baseline, identify, and drive improvement opportunities with select key suppliers.
Work closely with design and manufacturing engineering to review supplier specifications and red line drawings to improve supplier effectiveness, reduce supplier deviations, and strengthen inspection effectiveness.
Develop, refine, and deploy risk mitigation strategies during pre-production phases to enable successful new product launches.
Manage risk associated with changes in materials or processes, supporting change notification documentation and qualifications internally and through Veeco’s customers.
Ensure suppliers have implemented processes aligned with copy exact and change control expectations.
Identify and implement appropriate supplier outgoing quality and incoming quality assurance inspection plans to support zero supplier defects impacting manufacturing operations.
Utilize SPC tools to enable the identification of process control variances in our supplier base.
Drive efficiency and effectiveness improvements through automated data management and information systems.