Supplier Quality Specialist - Harnessing (R6588)

Telemetry Today LLC; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 110,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

Shield AI seeks a results-driven professional to lead supplier qualification, development, and quality assurance for the harnessing commodity supply base. You will perform supplier audits, resolve nonconformances, conduct root-cause investigations, and disposition hardware.

You will assess supplier capability, quality performance, and risk while partnering with Supply Chain, Engineering, Manufacturing, Operations, and Program teams to improve supplier quality and reduce delivery risk across the

Qualifications

• Experience with supplier audits and nonconformance resolution.
• Experience in hardware quality and supplier development.
• Ability to partner with cross-functional teams across Supply Chain, Engineering, Manufacturing, and Operations.

Responsibilities

• Own supplier qualification, development, performance management, and QA across the harnessing commodity supply base.
• Conduct supplier audits, nonconformance resolution, root-cause investigations, and hardware dispositions.
• Evaluate supplier capability, quality performance, and risk to meet engineering, customer, regulatory, and quality requirements.
• Collaborate with Supply Chain, Engineering, Manufacturing, Operations, and Program teams to remediate quality and delivery risk.

Skills

Supplier quality

Audits

Root cause analysis

Quality assurance

Cross-functional collaboration

Job description

Shield AI is actively seeking candidates with deep expertise in manufacturing and quality methodologies, paired with a relentless drive to enable supplier success and strengthen mission-critical operations.

Shield AI’s Supply Chain Quality team is responsible for global quality oversight across our supplier base. The team reduces supply-chain risk through supplier assessments and internal risk reviews, proactively drives supplier qualification and development activities.

In this role, you will be responsible for supplier qualification, development, performance management, and quality assurance across the harnessing commodity supply base. You will conduct supplier audits, nonconformance resolution, root-cause investigations, and hands on hardware dispositions.

You will evaluate supplier capability, quality performance, organizational risk, and resource needs to ensure purchased hardware and materials meet Shield AI engineering, customer, regulatory, and quality requirements. You will partner closely with Supply Chain, Engineering, Manufacturing, Operations, and Program teams to resolve complex supplier-quality issues, improve supplier capability, and reduce quality and delivery risk across the supply base.