Supplier Quality Engineer

IDEX Corporation•Farmington, CT

1d•$112,700 - $169,100

About The Position

The Supplier Quality Engineer is responsible for advancing Mott’s supplier quality, delivery, and service toward best-in-class performance. The role combines hands-on problem solving with strategic leadership, partnering with suppliers and internal teams across Supply Chain, Quality, Engineering, Operations, and Procurement to resolve nonconformances, strengthen process controls, prevent defects, and drive sustained improvement. The position owns a supplier quality roadmap, develops and maintains a supplier handbook, and publishes supplier-quality KPIs, scorecards, and recurring-issue reports. It evaluates and qualifies suppliers, manages risk-based supplier audits and corrective actions, supports product and process qualification, and assesses supplier controls. The role also establishes incoming-inspection Control Plans with the Quality team, analyzes supplier performance data, and maintains qualification and quality records. Success is measured by measurable progress against roadmap milestones, reduced defects and recurring issues, improved supplier capability, and timely, effective resolution of supplier-quality risks.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in engineering, quality, manufacturing, or a related technical field; equivalent relevant experience may be considered.
Experience in supplier quality, quality engineering, manufacturing engineering, or a related technical quality role.
Ability to interpret engineering drawings, specifications, inspection results, and technical quality requirements.
Experience investigating nonconformances, performing structured root-cause analysis, and verifying corrective-action effectiveness.
Working knowledge of quality management systems, supplier assessments, process controls, inspection methods, calibration, and traceability.
Proficiency with spreadsheets, quality reporting, and data analysis.
Strong analytical, organizational, and problem-solving skills.
Clear written and verbal communication skills and ability to work directly with suppliers and lead cross-functional improvement activities.

Nice To Haves

Experience conducting supplier quality-system or manufacturing-process audits and developing supplier improvement plans.
Experience in a manufacturing environment with complex products, components, and supplier relationships.
Experience with statistical process control, process capability analysis, measurement-system analysis, and risk-assessment tools.
Experience with ERP systems, including NetSuite, and electronic quality-management systems.
Professional quality engineering or auditor certification, or training in lean manufacturing, Six Sigma, and continuous improvement.

Responsibilities

Create and execute a strategic supplier quality roadmap with defined priorities, milestones, ownership, and measures of progress.
Develop, implement, maintain, and promote supplier adoption of a handbook covering quality expectations, qualification, documentation, change controls, and nonconformance and corrective-action requirements.
Partner with Purchasing and Quality to evaluate, qualify, approve, and requalify suppliers based on risk, technical capability, quality-system maturity, and performance; engage in new product development and supplier qualification.
Plan and conduct risk-based qualification and process audits at suppliers; manage third-party auditors, communicate results, coordinate improvement plans, and verify issue closure.
Communicate drawing, specification, inspection, documentation, and traceability requirements to suppliers in partnership with Engineering and Quality.
Support qualification of new or changed purchased products and supplier processes; review and approve first articles and certification packages within delegated authority and confirm evidence before production release.
Lead supplier-quality resolution within Procurement, including Material Review Request evaluation, root-cause analysis, containment, segregation, replacement material, authorized disposition, and management of supplier deviation requests.
Own root-cause corrective-action management for underperforming suppliers, including requests, root-cause challenges, implementation verification, and effectiveness checks.
Assess supplier controls for process consistency, inspection and testing, calibration, document control, training, and sub-tier suppliers.
Work with the Quality team to establish incoming-inspection Control Plans for purchased components and outside services.
Evaluate proposed product, process, material, or manufacturing-location changes with suppliers and internal stakeholders before implementation.
Define, track, and publish supplier-quality KPIs and scorecards; report trends, risks, and improvement progress, and recommend or approve reduced incoming inspection and dock-to-stock status for high-performing suppliers within delegated authority and in partnership with Quality.
Collect, compile, analyze, and report supplier-quality data; lead supplier continuous-improvement activities, prioritize systemic improvements, escalate ineffective actions, and verify sustained results.
Build and maintain working relationships with supplier Quality and Operations Management and Mott’s Engineering, Procurement, Quality, Operations, receiving inspection, and support organizations.
Maintain supplier qualification records, audit reports, inspection evidence, and corrective-action documentation in accordance with applicable quality-system requirements.
Support internal and customer audits, supplier performance reviews, and escalation of significant supplier-quality risks.