The Supplier Quality Engineer leads and supports daily supplier management activities at the Sensata make site. Working with cross functional teams to resolve any supplier related concerns they will also take the lead for New Product Development and change management across the site ensuring support for critical projects.
General Responsibilities
• Lead key supplier strategic activities and interface with Sourcing on forward looking roadmaps, including development of new suppliers and/or technologies, local activities, qualification, productivity pipeline cost reduction, components qualification, and supplier capacity verification.
• Initiate supplier-related problem solving to address performance issues as necessary
• Drive containment activities
• Communicate with relevant internal/external contacts and ensure timely closure and effectiveness
• Notify suppliers quality issues, drive supplier report, verify and assure suppliers’ effective containment action, root cause analysis, and corrective actions/preventive actions
• Provide active support during reviews and supplier selection process
• Review and critique on supplier processes/product
• Perform on-site process audit at supplier to verify; suppliers’ permanent corrective actions, evaluate suppliers’ quality system, verify capacity, process capability and risk assessments
• Handles Supplier Quality items in internal audits, customer audits and site audits
• Develops and communicates the supplier on their quality performance
• Defines actions in case a supplier is not meeting the quality expectation and targets
• Ensure best practice is adopted within the supply chain
• Support management by reviewing Key Performance Indicators (KPIs), while checking work and tracking progress
• Communication and alignment across regions
Experience / Qualifications
• A university degree required (i.e. Bachelors degree) or equivalent relevant work experience
• Must be a team player able to work in a fast-paced environment with de