Lead Supplier Quality Engineer — Drive Supplier Excellence

National Presto Industries, Inc; Eau Claire (WI); On-site; USD 85,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health, dental, and vision insurance

401(k) with company match

Paid time off

Job summary

National Presto Industries, Inc. seeks a Supplier Quality Engineer to ensure supplier products, materials, and manufacturing processes meet quality, safety, regulatory, and performance standards.

You will serve as the primary technical quality contact for suppliers and manufacturing partners while providing direction to external quality resources, driving APQP, PPAP, and related readiness activities.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in mechanical, manufacturing, industrial, quality, or materials engineering.
• Experience in supplier quality or related engineering roles.
• Experience with suppliers, contract manufacturers, or outsourced manufacturing.
• Knowledge of APQP, PPAP, FMEA, MSA, control plans, SPC, corrective action.
• Willingness to travel domestically and internationally.

Responsibilities

• Lead supplier qualification and development activities evaluating quality systems, manufacturing processes, technical capabilities, capacity, and production readiness.
• Provide supplier-quality leadership during new product development, sourcing, design review, specification development, production qualification, and product or process changes.
• Lead / support APQP, PPAP, process validation, pilot builds, first-production reviews, and related readiness activities
• Develop / review quality plans, control plans, inspection requirements, acceptance criteria, process-capability studies, and other supplier-quality documentation.
• Lead supplier investigation, containment, and corrective action for defects, production failures, field issues, customer complaints, and recurring problems using structured problem-solving methods.
• Evaluate supplier root-cause determinations and corrective actions for technical adequacy
• Evaluate manufacturing processes for capability, repeatability, process control, inspection effectiveness, error-proofing, and overall quality risk, using data to drive prevention improvement
• Direct external quality resources supporting inspections, audits, and production monitoring, corrective-action follow-up and other assigned supplier-quality activities.

Skills

Analytical thinking

Problem solving

Interpreting engineering drawings

Cross-functional collaboration

Travel willingness

Education

Bachelor's degree in mechanical, manufacturing, industrial, quality, or materials engineering

Tools

APQP/PPAP

FMEA / MSA

Control plans / SPC

Job description

National Presto Industries, Inc. seeks a Supplier Quality Engineer to ensure supplier products, materials, and manufacturing processes meet quality, safety, regulatory, and performance standards.

You will serve as the primary technical quality contact for suppliers and manufacturing partners while providing direction to external quality resources, driving APQP, PPAP, and related readiness activities.