Supplier Quality Engineer

Sunshine Irrigation & Light Inc.; Bridport; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a Lead Supplier Quality Engineer to enhance supplier relationships and drive quality improvements. This role involves evaluating supplier performance, implementing corrective actions, and championing continuous improvement initiatives. The successful candidate will leverage their expertise in quality engineering within a manufacturing environment, ideally aerospace, to ensure compliance and optimize processes. Join a secure and successful business where your contributions will have a significant impact on quality and efficiency in the supply chain. If you're ready for your next career move, this opportunity is perfect for you.

Qualifications

• Experience in Quality Engineering within a manufacturing environment.
• Strong problem-solving skills and knowledge of mechanical components.

Responsibilities

• Manage supplier quality performance and improve processes.
• Conduct audits and develop corrective action plans with suppliers.

Skills

Quality Engineering

Problem Solving

Supplier Relationship Management

Root Cause Analysis

Quality Analysis Tools

Education

Experience in Aerospace Manufacturing

Internal Audit Experience (AS9100D)

Tools

8D

PFMEA

Job description

Lead Supplier Quality Engineer – Dorset - £40,000 - £45,000 + Benefits

If you’re a Lead or Senior Supplier Quality Engineer, or a Supplier Quality Engineer looking for more responsibility and your next career move, then this is for you!

Join our client, a long established, secure and successful business in Dorset as a Lead Supplier Quality Engineer. Reporting to the Quality Manager, you'll support their business by identifying process improvement and control opportunities within their supply chain.

You'll be building supplier relationships for effective working practices, ensuring that purchase order requirements can be met and maintained. You'll monitor, maintain and improve supplier performance through working with KPI metric data, and will work with suppliers to develop corrective action plans to address any process failings including the use of quality tools (e.g. 5 Why, 8D etc.).

Lead Supplier Quality Engineer - Role Highlights:

• Supplier Quality Management and Supplier process improvement.
• Evaluate and process FAI reports from suppliers in line with AS9102.
• Set and maintain PO notes and incoming inspection criteria on all purchased goods.
• Support goods inwards and purchasing.
• Collect and evaluate supplier quality data.
• Work with suppliers directly to create, manage and close corrective action plans, addressing process failures.
• Process and product audits within the supply chain to address failures and perform regular timescale related audits.
• Perform source inspections on supplier sites when necessary.
• Review and update Corrective Action Reports (CAR).
• Visit suppliers and assist in supplier audits.
• Supplier & Plant Quality: Lead the improvement of supplier relationships and quality processes, ensure component compliance, and drive corrective actions.
• Continuous Improvement: Champion root cause analysis, manage non-conformance reporting, and develop supplier processes to prevent recurrence and reduce costs.

Lead Supplier Quality Engineer - What we are looking for:

• Experience of Quality Engineering within a manufacturing environment, ideally an Aerospace manufacturing environment.
• FAI in accordance with AS9102.
• Ability to use measuring equipment to 0.01mm correctly.
• Working knowledge of quality analysis tools such as 8D, PFMEA etc.
• Knowledge of mechanical components.
• Strong problem solving skills with the ability to facilitate problem solving with production staff.
• Experience in developing vendor quality measures.
• Any internal audit experience to AS9100D, 8D, Lead, Six Sigma with experience of process capability analysis and process improvement is preferred but not essential to apply.

Lead Supplier Quality Engineer – What’s on offer:

• Salary: £40K - £45K + benefits.

Supplier Quality Engineer? Interested?

Apply now!