Supplier Quality Engineering Manager

Philips•Murrysville, PA

3d•$120,000 - $167,000•Hybrid

About The Position

In this role you are responsible for delivering supplier partners' high-quality performance by applying Advanced Product Quality Planning (APQP) in product industrialization, driving continuous quality improvement throughout the product lifecycle, ensuring regulatory compliance, and identifying improvement opportunities through CoNQ data analysis. Your role involves managing the local Supplier Quality Engineering team's activities related to purchased part qualification with suppliers, supplier quality issue resolution, supplier quality performance monitoring, supplier auditing, and ensuring appropriate incoming material inspection strategies. You will drive quality activities with local cross-functional teams and suppliers, setting a high standard and fast response expectation so quality issues are prevented or minimized. You will lead the team in APQP quality methodology execution with R&D and Operations during NPI projects. You will monitor activities related to key functional metrics such as SCARs>90 days, projects/parts on APQP, supplier audit completion, and supplier PPM performance to enable team success in balancing workload. Ensure team adopts and utilizes best practices to enable our organization to provide high quality medical products to our customers.

Requirements

Bachelor's/ Master's Degree in Engineering Science, Supply Chain Management, Electrical Engineering, Electronic Engineering or equivalent.
5+ years of experience in areas such as Quality Engineering, Safety Engineering, Process Engineering, Continuous Improvement Techniques or equivalent.
5+ years of leadership experience with all aspects of supplier quality management: APQP quality concepts, tools and methods (e.g. FMEA, DOE, IQ/OQ/PQ, MSA, GRR, 8D, etc.); quality issue resolution and quality monitoring measures.
Must be able to successfully perform the following minimum Physical, Cognitive and Environmental job requirements with or without accommodation for this Office/Remote position.

Responsibilities

Manage local Supplier Quality Engineering team activities related to purchased part qualification with suppliers, supplier quality issue resolution, supplier quality performance monitoring, supplier auditing, and ensuring appropriate incoming material inspection strategies.
Drive quality activities with local cross-functional teams and suppliers, setting a high standard and fast response expectation so quality issues are prevented or minimized.
Lead team in APQP quality methodology execution with R&D and Operations during NPI projects.
Monitor activities related to key functional metrics such as SCARs>90 days, projects/parts on APQP, supplier audit completion, and supplier PPM performance to enable team success in balancing workload.
Ensure team adopts and utilizes best practices to enable our organization to provide high quality medical products to our customers.