Supplier Quality Engineer

Plexus•Neenah, WI

17d•Onsite

About The Position

The Supplier Quality Engineer is responsible to drive the organization's Zero Defect Strategy and continual improvement into the supply base for both compliance and risk mitigation within operations. This role will represent the supplier quality function to customers, external auditors, and internal teams for all incoming raw material and services. Supplier Quality is a key technical and indirect leadership function that will apply fundamentals of quality in order to influence suppliers in meeting or exceeding expectations.

Requirements

Bachelor’s Degree with 2 or more years of related experience is preferred.
An equivalent combination of education and/or experience will be considered.

Nice To Haves

ASQ Certification preferred (CQE, CQA, CMQOE)

Responsibilities

Lead supplier qualification as a key member in supplier selection and evaluation teams using a risk based approach.
Lead supplier audits applying good auditing practices and our Quality Management System (QMS) in both new programs and on-going management of suppliers.
Use purchased product specifications to identify Critical to Quality features and complete part qualification activities using different elements of Production Part Approval Process (PPAP) to flow requirements from Customers into the supply base.
Connect part qualification activities into receiving inspection setting both sampling plans and inspection criteria.
Represent Supplier Quality in Advanced Product Quality Planning (APQP) teams and supplier change requests as a key member driving Zero Defect strategies into the supply chain.
Lead supplier corrective action activities in multiple levels of the supply chain using non-conforming parts, data trends and supplier audit findings.
Analyze data to identify trends and provide suppliers feedback to drive supplier performance improvements.
Assist in categorization of suppliers by risk for additional development or auditing activities.
Apply expertise in assigned engineering function to challenge suppliers processes using a risk based approach. The approach includes design reviews, process failure mode and effects analysis (PFMEA), control plans (CP) and statistical process controls (SPC) applied to selected manufacturing technologies.
Assist in guiding or shaping future Supplier Quality Strategies and support development of supplier quality engineers in both technical growth and supplier quality fundamentals.
Apply domain depth to standard operating procedures (SOP), work instructions (WI) and templates to improve standard work and operational rigor within function.