Entry-Level Supplier Quality & Audit Specialist

Nanotech Energy; Chico (CA); Hybride; USD 58 000 - 79 000; Plein temps

Avantages offerts par ce poste

PTO

Holiday Pay

401(k)

Medical insurance

Dental

Résumé du poste

Nanotech Energy is seeking a Supplier Quality Specialist in Chico, California to support supplier qualification, incoming-material quality, and supplier performance activities for advanced lithium-ion cell development. Reporting to the Senior Quality Manager, you will conduct supplier audits, verify documentation, and manage supplier-related nonconformances and CAPA processes.

The role emphasizes learning/performing audits under supervision, maintaining records in PLEX MES, and contributing to

Qualifications

• High school diploma or equivalent required; associate or bachelor’s degree preferred.
• Zero to two years in supplier quality, quality, inspection, manufacturing, or supply-chain roles.
• Completion of four ASQ courses: SQP Intro; Auditing for Improved Supplier Performance; Quality/Engineering Tools for Supplier Management; Introduction to Supplier Management.
• Foundational knowledge of supplier qualification, auditing, incoming inspection, SCAR/8D/CAPA, sampling, SPC, MSA, PFMEA, control plans, and objective-evidence documentation.
• Ability to read specifications, drawings, purchase requirements, certificates of analysis and conformance, safety data sheets, inspection plans, and technical records; Excel proficiency and willingness to learn PLEX MES.

Responsabilités

• Support supplier qualification and onboarding for battery materials, cell components, equipment, outsourced processes, calibration, testing, and services.
• Plan and conduct supplier system, process, product, capacity, and special-process audits under qualified supervision until independent competency is documented.
• Perform or coordinate incoming inspection and verify supplier status, identity, revision, lot/serial traceability, condition, labeling, certificates, and test results.
• Identify, segregate, label, and quarantine suspect or nonconforming incoming material and initiate required nonconformance and supplier-notification processes.
• Issue, track, and evaluate supplier corrective-action requests, including containment, root cause, 8D, CAPA, implementation evidence, and effectiveness verification.
• Maintain supplier-quality scorecards and analyze defects, escapes, responsiveness, audit findings, change control, corrective-action aging, and recurring issues.
• Review supplier change notices and coordinate required technical, Quality, Procurement, and business approval before implementation.
• Support supplier quality agreements, incoming-quality requirements, performance reviews, improvement plans, and approved supplier education and coaching.
• Maintain complete supplier, audit, inspection, nonconformance, approval, and performance records in PLEX MES and other controlled systems while preserving the Procurement boundary.

Connaissances

Auditing

Reading specifications

Formation

High school diploma or equivalent

ASQ courses completed: Supplier Quality Professional, Auditing for Improved Supplier Performance, Quality/Engineering Tools for Supplier Management, Introduction to Supplier Management

Outils

Excel

PLEX MES

Description du poste

Nanotech Energy is seeking a Supplier Quality Specialist in Chico, California to support supplier qualification, incoming-material quality, and supplier performance activities for advanced lithium-ion cell development. Reporting to the Senior Quality Manager, you will conduct supplier audits, verify documentation, and manage supplier-related nonconformances and CAPA processes.

The role emphasizes learning/performing audits under supervision, maintaining records in PLEX MES, and contributing to