Staff Supplier Quality Engineer

Entangled Future; Oxford; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

IonQ in Oxford, England, United Kingdom, is seeking a hands-on Staff Supplier Quality Engineer to own supplier quality from selection through to ongoing performance. You will define and manage the quality systems, conduct audits, and lead corrective actions to ensure external suppliers meet reliability requirements necessary for quantum computing hardware.

You will collaborate with manufacturing, supply chain, and design engineering to ensure compliance with industry standards and customer

Qualifications

• Experience leading supplier quality programs and audits in high-tech manufacturing or similar industries.
• Ability to own supplier quality from selection through ongoing performance and disposition of nonconforming material.
• Experience defining and implementing QMS processes with metrics and governance.

Responsibilities

• Lead supplier selection, qualification, audits, assessments, and drive improvements at supplier sites.
• Own the Approved Supplier List and supplier approval decisions.
• Run corrective and preventive action processes and drive containment and root-cause analysis to closure.
• Set and track supplier quality KPIs and report performance to management.
• Translate regulatory and customer requirements to suppliers and contribute to the supplier quality roadmap for new product introductions.

Skills

Supplier quality management

Audits

Root cause analysis

Quality KPIs

Job description

Staff Supplier Quality Engineer at IonQ, Oxford, England, United Kingdom. A lead-level full time position in the Corporate - Supply Chain & Inventory team, listed under software engineering.

The Role

Quantum is now, and it's built here. Oxford Ionics, now part of IonQ, is pioneering the next generation of quantum computing. Using our world-leading trapped-ion technology, we're building the most powerful, accurate and reliable quantum systems to tackle problems that today's supercomputers cannot solve.

We are looking for a hands-on Staff Supplier Quality Engineer to join a cross-functional team building the world's best quantum computers. You will make sure the components and materials coming from our supply base meet the reliability and performance our systems depend on.

Working with manufacturing, supply chain and design engineering, you will create and maintain the quality systems and processes that govern our external suppliers. Supplier quality is paramount at IonQ, and this role brings a systematic approach to putting a robust Quality Management System in place, running it and maintaining it across the supply base. 25-50% of this role involves travel, mainly for supplier visits and audits.

Responsibilities

You will own supplier quality from selection and qualification through to ongoing performance. That means working with Strategic Sourcing and Engineering & Technology to audit and assess potential suppliers, and owning incoming material inspection, first article inspection and source release decisions. Where no industry standard exists for a novel component, you will define how it is qualified and inspected.

You will also be the supplier quality voice in the company's governance. You will lead the supplier quality position at the Qualification Review Board, represent Supplier Quality on the Change Control Board and contribute to the disposition of nonconforming material at the Material Review Board. You will report supplier quality performance to management and show how it supports IonQ's objectives.

Responsibilities

• Leading supplier selection, qualification, audits and assessments, and driving continuous improvement at supplier sites
• Owning the Approved Supplier List, including the decision authority for supplier approval, conditional approval and disapproval
• Running the Supplier Corrective Action Request process, leading containment, root cause analysis and corrective and preventive action through to closure
• Setting and driving supplier quality KPIs, and presenting performance at management review
• Flowing customer and federal programme requirements ECJU, UK Dual-Use List, DEFCON and DCC and Cyber Essentials) down to suppliers and verifying compliance, and contributing to the supplier quality roadmap for new product introduction