Supplier Quality Engineer
About The Position
The Supplier Quality Engineer provides quality support to production operations, ensuring that components and products purchased from sub-suppliers meet engineering requirements. The role drives quality improvements, adherence to company standards, and progress toward zero-defect performance. It works cross-functionally to improve processes and solve problems across the supply base, with a focus on protecting and improving incoming product quality. Performance is measured by internal customer satisfaction and supplier metrics. The position supports plant production, advanced product quality planning, supplier component launches, control systems, supplier audits, corrective actions, and continuous improvement. It provides guidance on problem-solving, statistical analysis, inspection equipment and techniques, and supplier training, and reports supplier launch, quality, and performance progress or problems to management. The role also reviews supplier Production Part Approval Process submissions. The position includes responsibility for completing required safety training, reporting and correcting unsafe practices as appropriate, performing work safely, and complying with applicable safety and health requirements.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Manufacturing, Mechanical, or Industrial Engineering.
- A combination of two years of Manufacturing Engineering or Quality Assurance experience in the automotive industry.
- Demonstrated knowledge of advanced quality planning, inspection equipment and techniques, root-cause failure analysis, capability studies, statistical distributions, machine and assembly processes, problem-solving, team facilitation, and geometric dimensioning and tolerancing.
- Knowledge of TS16949 is required.
Nice To Haves
- Experience with Supplier Development.
- Experience writing reports in Microsoft Word.
- Experience with graphical analysis in Minitab.
Responsibilities
- Drive and champion quality improvement efforts internally and across the supply base.
- Support plant production by ensuring supplier parts meet engineering requirements.
- Manage advanced product quality planning and help remove roadblocks to achieve on-time, zero-defect launches of supply-base components.
- Ensure internal needs for Control Systems are established, communicated, and met at the supply base in a timely and functional manner.
- Conduct supplier audits of implemented corrective action plans, quality systems, and overall operations.
- Provide analysis, guidance, and support to production and suppliers on process improvement, including problem-solving tools and techniques, statistical analysis, and inspection equipment and techniques.
- Conduct supplier quality training at supplier facilities to meet BorgWarner or customer quality expectations and requirements.
- Use root-cause analysis to develop recommendations for corrective action.
- Optimize process capability for critical characteristics at the supply base using statistical analysis and problem-solving techniques.
- Work proactively with suppliers to minimize or eliminate launch and ongoing quality and performance issues.
- Report supplier launch, quality, and performance progress or problems to company management.
- Review and disposition supplier Production Part Approval Process submissions to ensure compliance with organizational requirements.
- Complete required safety training, report and correct unsafe practices as appropriate, perform work safely, and comply with applicable safety and health requirements.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
