SUPPLIER QUALITY ENGINEER II

REPORTS TO: Director of Quality

Remote Position

POSITION PURPOSE

Develop, maintain, and continuously improve supplier quality performance to ensure purchased components, materials, and services consistently meet engineering drawing, specification, regulatory, and Quality Management System requirements. This role partners with suppliers, Engineering, Supply Chain, Operations, and Quality to prevent defects, strengthen supplier process controls, resolve nonconformances, and reduce supplier-related risk.

Supplier Quality

Engineer provides technical leadership in drawing requirement flow-down, critical dimension identification, supplier qualification, corrective action, and ongoing supplier development.

DELIVERABLES & RESPONSIBILITIES

Supplier Quality Ownership (Primary Focus)

- Own quality performance for assigned suppliers, commodities, and purchased components
- Establish supplier quality expectations, inspection requirements, acceptance criteria, and quality plans
- Monitor supplier performance using defect rates, incoming acceptance, disruptions, corrective-action responsiveness, and cost-of-poor-quality trends
- Partner with Supply Chain to escalate chronic performance issues and implement supplier recovery or development plans

Drawing Requirements & Critical Dimension Identification

- Review engineering drawings, specifications, bills of material, standards, and purchase requirements for clarity, completeness, and supplier applicability
- Identify and document critical dimensions, key product characteristics, special characteristics, safety-related features, and regulatory requirements requiring enhanced control
- Define and flow down inspection methods, measurement equipment, sampling requirements, capability expectations, material certifications, and objective evidence for critical features
- Collaborate with Design Engineering and Manufacturing Engineering to resolve ambiguous, conflicting, or non-measurable drawing requirements before supplier release
- Ensure suppliers understand drawing revisions, tolerance requirements, and change-control expectations




- Verify critical dimensions are incorporated into supplier control plans, inspection instructions, first-article submissions, and production records
- Maintain traceability between drawing requirements, supplier controls, inspection results, and acceptance decisions

Supplier Qualification, APQP & Part Approval

- Lead or support supplier capability assessments, risk reviews, quality-system audits, and process audits for new and existing suppliers
- Define supplier qualification and part-approval requirements based on product, process, and safety risk
- Review and approve supplier submissions, including First Article Inspection (FAI), PPAP elements where applicable, process flow diagrams, PFMEAs, control plans, capability studies, certificates, and measurement-system evidence

Supplier Nonconformance & Corrective Action

- Lead containment and disposition activities for supplier-related nonconforming material in coordination with Operations, Engineering, and Supply Chain
- Issue and manage Supplier Corrective Action Requests and structured problem-solving through verified closure
- Verify root cause, corrective action implementation, recurrence prevention, and effectiveness using objective evidence and follow-up audits as appropriate

Supplier Process Control & Development

- Evaluate supplier manufacturing controls for critical dimensions and characteristics, including process capability, SPC, error-proofing, inspection, test, and traceability
- Develop suppliers through technical reviews, on-site assessments, improvement plans, and performance follow-up
- Promote defect prevention, variation reduction, and quality at the source throughout the supplier base

QMS Execution, Change Control & Compliance

- Ensure supplier quality activities align with ISO 9001:2015 and internal QMS requirements




- Support supplier change-control reviews for process, material, tooling, location, sub-tier supplier, and design changes; ensure approval is obtained before implementation when required
- Maintain accurate supplier audit, qualification, approval, FAI/PPAP, deviation, nonconformance, corrective-action, and performance records

QUALIFICATIONS (Education, Experience & Skills) · Undergraduate degree in engineering, quality, industrial technology, or a related technical field, and a minimum of five (5) years of related supplier quality or manufacturing quality experience

· Working knowledge of engineering drawings, specifications, tolerance analysis, and GD&T; ability to identify critical dimensions and translate them into practical inspection and process-control requirements

· Familiarity with ISO 9001; IATF 16949, AS9100, or similar industry-specific supplier quality requirements is a plus

· Frequently required to stand, walk, and operate testing and inspection equipment, a vehicle, telephones, and other office equipment requiring gross and fine motor skills, and to employ eye-hand coordination

· Occasionally required to stoop or kneel and lift or move and/or carry 30 pounds or more

· Specific vision abilities include close vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus

· Requires routine and frequent meeting of critical deadlines and details, which may be stressful

· Exposure to shop elements (e.g., noise, moving parts and equipment, dust, and fumes)

· Noise level is typically low to moderate and moderate to low indoor temperatures or climate controls

· The previous demands and work conditions may be encountered by the employee to successfully perform the job functions. The company will provide reasonable accommodation for qualified individuals with a disability, unless providing such accommodation will present undue hardship

· Communicates well in technical English, both written and verbal

· Full-time position

· Remote position, Hybrid work Scheme

· US Visa required for occasional travel

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