Remote Supplier Quality & Development Lead (Engineered Items)

Collins Aerospace; Sacramento (CA); Remote; USD 87,000 - 165,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

401(k) plan

Tuition reimbursement

Student loan repayment

Life insurance

Disability coverage

Parental leave

Job summary

Collins Aerospace is seeking a Supplier Quality and Development professional to drive supplier performance and continuous improvement across our operations. You will influence supplier qualification, monitoring, escape management, and quality issue resolution while ensuring products, processes, and suppliers meet internal and regulatory standards.

You’ll collaborate with suppliers and internal engineering partners to solve complex problems and lead root‑cause and corrective actions for

Qualifications

• Typically requires a University Degree and minimum 5 years prior relevant experience or an Advanced Degree in a related field and minimum 3 years of experience.
• Bachelor’s degree in engineering/industrial engineering or similar field. Equivalent work experience may be considered in lieu of education.

Responsibilities

• Conducts supplier qualification / certification, assessment, monitoring, escape management, and quality issue resolution processes.
• Analyzes and makes recommendations on quality data and the development of part / supplier specific quality issue resolution and corrective actions.
• Provides research on and explanations of root cause analysis & problem solving (Red-X & 8D) in escape management procedures. Develops corrective and / or preventive actions for systemic process and product design problems for product provided by suppliers.
• Conducts processes and procedures for supplier qualification / certification, source inspection and material release processes, and Correction Action Boards / DQ Clinics with suppliers.
• Drives support for the UTC Supplier Gold program to ensure healthy continuous improvement and sustainability.
• Reviews processes and metrics and makes recommendations to ensure supplier is capable to meet all requirements for work transfer and process change management including Resourcing Gate and Production Part Approval Process (PPAP) acceptance.

Education

Bachelor’s degree in engineering/industrial engineering or similar field

Advanced degree in related field

Job description

Collins Aerospace is seeking a Supplier Quality and Development professional to drive supplier performance and continuous improvement across our operations. You will influence supplier qualification, monitoring, escape management, and quality issue resolution while ensuring products, processes, and suppliers meet internal and regulatory standards.

You’ll collaborate with suppliers and internal engineering partners to solve complex problems and lead root‑cause and corrective actions for