Senior Supplier Quality Engineer - Large Forged Parts

Job Description Summary

Drive quality for assigned suppliers, including quality plan implementation. Select suppliers through qualification processes. Own supplier results, drive improvements utilizing supplier scorecards. Own supplier audits, ensuring compliance, and driving improvement plans where needed. Has in-depth knowledge of best practices and how own area integrates with others; has working knowledge of competition and the factors that differentiate them in the market

Job Description

What Impact You’ll Make
The Supplier Quality Engineer (SQE) – forged parts, is responsible for :
- driving quality for assigned suppliers, including quality plan implementation
- collaborating with Engineering and Sourcing to select and approve suppliers through approval and qualification processes
- owning supplier assessments, part/process qualification supplier results
- driving improvements utilizing supplier scorecards.
- owning ongoing supplier audits, and supplier monitoring ensuring compliance, and driving improvement plans where needed.
In-depth understanding of key business drivers; uses this understanding to accomplish own work.
In-depth understanding of how work of own team integrates with other teams and contributes to the area.

The role will work in full alignment and close collaboration with internal stakeholders including sourcing, engineering, manufacturing and project management to enable project execution excellence. The scope of activities includes supplier product qualification, audit, surveillance, quality issue resolution and root cause investigation.

What You’ll Do:

• Be the primary interface between critical suppliers & engineering requirements

• Manage supplier quality, supplier performance, including formal Supplier Quality Performance Improvement Plans (PIPs) as appropriate

• Set qualification- surveillance strategy

• Manage new supplier identification & development

• Manage new Technology introduction & qualification

• Lead supplier quality reviews

• Be the Primary Tech support for Sourcing/Manufacturing/Engineering

• Lead effort to reduce COQ and product DPMO

• Perform and lead Customer witness / inspection meetings at suppliers

• Be the other SQE’s mentor

• Develop & Conduct SQE training

• Lead supplier critical RCAs or support other business SQEs leading them

• Issue technical data to support Sourcing for critical Vendor Recovery and support the business SQEs

• Execute surveillance audits as per agreed plan

• Identify and Lead Process Capability initiatives

• Monitor Supplier scorecards – Quality Section and ensure accuracy

• Be accountable for functional, business, and broad company Supplier Quality objectives

• Drive Supplier Quality initiatives to continually improve SQE team effectiveness

• Drive root cause identification for Cost of Failure and defect rate for suppliers in your scope

• Work closely with engineering, manufacturing, product line, and commercial teams to eliminate any barriers that may affect the quality and delivery of sourced components

• Be an advocate for standard work within the team

• Be a Lean advocate

• Drive qualification simplification: reduce requirements based on experience, part family quals, etc

• Support meetings with customer at GE factory or at supplier premises to discuss specific technical challenges

• Participate in Design Reviews to optimize manufacturability of new designs

• Lead “special” projects for the commodity: CMM point reduction, net shape on forgings, etc

What You’ll Bring (Basic Qualifications):

• Bachelor’s degree from an accredited university or college or equivalent experience

• Technical aptitude

• Communications & Teamwork Skills

• Project Management Skills

• Commodity expertise (materials, forging, non destructive examination including ultrasonic)

• Significant and proven Sourcing/Engineering/Manufacturing experience

• Significant and proven of Supplier Quality or equivalent experience

• English fluency

• Travel as needed, up to 50% of time to drive strategy, support problem solving at Suppliers

What Will Make You Stand out:

• Experience with supplier qualification, development, manufacturing assessment, and surveillance

• Product line expertise of significant and proven experience with a technology/engineering background

• Material engineering expertise

• Demonstrated effective interpersonal, teamwork, networking skills, collaboration & conflict resolution skills

• Demonstrated project management skills to establish strategic goals and to prioritize, plan, delegate & evaluate deliverables

• Process improvement experience, knowledge of continuous improvement methodologies & in-depth understanding of related processes

• RCA Leader certified

• Strong problem solving and negotiation skills with the ability to develop & implement complex influencing & negotiating strategies

• Ability to influence and enroll by making recommendations for appropriate action at all levels of the company

• Strong verbal, written, communication and presentation skills with the ability to speak and write clearly & convincingly in English, tailoring communication methods to customer's requirements

• Ability to respond / react with appropriate urgency / professionalism & make decisions under pressure / stress

• Change agent with energy, passion & enthusiasm to drive change

• Strong business acumen; uses financial analysis to make important business decisions & understands key financial metrics

• Ability to articulate the company's business vision & key business objectives, understands business trends & cycles

• Ability to make decisions under pressure and take ownership for assigned projects and programs

Additional Information

- This is a remote position

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