Senior Supplier Quality Engineer - Remote/Hybrid

Eaton; Charlotte (NC); Remote; USD 113,000 - 165,000; Full time

Job summary

Eaton’s ES AMER MFGSC division is seeking a Supplier Quality Engineer who can work from Charlotte, NC or remotely within the Eastern or Central Timezone, with roughly 50% travel. The role focuses on supplier quality performance, risk prioritization, and systemic quality improvement across sites.

You will own DPPM monitoring, drive corrective actions, and support APQP/PPAP activities while collaborating with SMEs to close gaps and elevate quality performance.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree from an accredited institution.
• 5+ years of quality experience within a manufacturing environment.
• Must be authorized to work in the United States without company sponsorship now or in the future.
• Candidate must reside within the Eastern or Central timezone.

Responsibilities

• Own and monitor commodity DPPM, supplier quality performance, Pareto trends, chronic suppliers, and cross-site patterns.
• Prioritize suppliers and commodity quality risks using performance data, recurrence trends, business impact, e-Score findings, and cross-site exposure.
• Lead structured supplier quality problem-solving efforts for complex, chronic, recurring, systemic, and cross-site issues.
• Challenge and validate supplier root cause analyses and corrective actions, ensuring rigor, evidence-based solutions, and recurrence prevention.
• Drive systemic corrective actions, chronic supplier recovery initiatives, and commodity-level quality improvements.
• Plan and execute risk-based e-Score supplier audits and convert findings into prioritized quality improvement actions.
• Identify systemic quality risks across sites and coordinate cross-site corrective actions and standardization efforts as needed.
• Engage SDE commodity and process subject matter experts (SMEs) when quality risks expose manufacturing capability, process, capacity, scalability, rate readiness, or specialized technical gaps.
• Support defined APQP/PPAP quality activities and supplier quality readiness for high-risk launches, changes, and transfer activities.
• Verify the effectiveness of corrective actions and ensure sustained reduction of supplier and commodity quality risks.

Skills

Analytical skills

Data-driven

Cross-functional

Influence

Education

Bachelor’s degree

Tools

APQP

PPAP

PFMEA

Control Plans

MSA

SPC

Job description

Eaton’s ES AMER MFGSC division is seeking a Supplier Quality Engineer who can work from Charlotte, NC or remotely within the Eastern or Central Timezone, with roughly 50% travel. The role focuses on supplier quality performance, risk prioritization, and systemic quality improvement across sites.

You will own DPPM monitoring, drive corrective actions, and support APQP/PPAP activities while collaborating with SMEs to close gaps and elevate quality performance.