Supplier Quality Engineer: Drive Defect Reduction & Compliance

CAE USA; Tampa (FL); On-site; USD 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Benefits package

Work-life balance

Safe work environment

Career development

Job summary

CAE USA Inc. is seeking a Supplier Quality Engineer to develop and implement policies ensuring external vendors and raw material suppliers meet quality standards.

You will assess supplier facilities, processes and quality systems, support supplier certification, analyze data for trends, and lead root cause investigations with corrective actions. Ideal candidates have a professional degree in a discipline and approximately 5 years of related experience, with travel up to 10% to support supplier

Qualifications

• Associate's degree or equivalent experience required.
• Minimum 3 years related work experience.
• Experience in ISO 9001 or AS9100 in aviation/space/defense environment.
• Experience identifying requirements in customer contracts, specs and drawings.
• Experience reviewing POs/requisitions for quality requirements flow-down.
• Knowledge of commodities-based procurements is required.
• Experience auditing quality systems is a plus.
• Lean and Six Sigma certification is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Review purchase requisitions to assure quality requirements are specified before supplier communication.
• Verify drawings, specs, and SOWs are released before PR approval.
• Verify each COTS item has OEM/OCM or authorized distributor identified.
• Collaborate with program quality engineering to ensure flow-down of quality standards.
• Ensure correct QA codes are applied per commodity requirements.
• Review supplier records and audits in the supplier registry system.
• Generate supplier scorecards reflecting delivery and quality performance.
• Approve new suppliers and qualify via documentation and/or site visits.
• Issue and track supplier corrective action requests.
• Support internal audit and corrective action processes.
• Travel up to 10% to support supplier evaluations.

Skills

Quality management

Supplier quality

Root cause analysis

Auditing quality systems

Contract requirements flow-down

Lean Six Sigma

Data analysis

Communications

Education

Associate's degree in related discipline

Equivalent experience

Tools

Microsoft Word

Microsoft Excel

Job description

CAE USA Inc. is seeking a Supplier Quality Engineer to develop and implement policies ensuring external vendors and raw material suppliers meet quality standards.

You will assess supplier facilities, processes and quality systems, support supplier certification, analyze data for trends, and lead root cause investigations with corrective actions. Ideal candidates have a professional degree in a discipline and approximately 5 years of related experience, with travel up to 10% to support supplier