About the role

  • Supplier Quality Engineer providing strategic and tactical support to manufacturing quality processes at Brunswick, the marine industry leader. Collaborating with suppliers to ensure materials meet specifications and improve satisfaction.

Responsibilities

  • Serve as a consultative resource and collaborative partner to both customers and suppliers to ensure all needs and expectations are understood and addressed
  • Process PPAP submissions to enable timely new product shipments
  • Handle tactical quality issues with assigned suppliers
  • Review Corrective Action submissions to verify root cause analysis is complete and measures are taken to eliminate future reoccurrence
  • Respond to customer inquiries in a timely, accurate and consultative manner
  • Conduct supplier quality performance analysis and proactively provide insightful information to the Buyer’s desk plan and the commodity team
  • Analyze and evaluate supplier PPM performance to provide optimal solution and/or recommendations for improvement
  • Provide quality performance data as required to enable the assessment of past performance, ensure continued efficiency and identify continuous improvement opportunities
  • Support Manufacturing by performing and/or coordinating the initial sort and/or inspection of suspect parts to maintain production goals
  • Issue Corrective Actions to suppliers for identified discrepant materials to ensure suppliers are notified of the issue and root cause analysis can be completed
  • Document materials rejected due to quality issue to maintain inventory accuracy in MRB
  • Verify the materials received correspond to the documentation provided with the shipment
  • Interpret engineering drawings, schematic diagrams, or formulas and confers with management or engineering staff to determine quality and reliability standards relative to warranty agreements
  • Maintain quality service by following organization standards.
  • Work directly with suppliers. Perform audits against standards and provide analysis and development plans to improve supplier performance.
  • To lead in all supplier qualification endeavors including on-site and virtual supplier quality audits, technical reviews and assessments. (process and product related)
  • Develop processes and systems with suppliers to assure maintenance/continual improvement of quality on current/service products from suppliers.
  • Handle tactical quality issues (spills, PPAP, etc) with assigned suppliers
  • Develop risk-based scheduling for proactive supplier evaluations.
  • Excel in a cross-functional team environment with buyers, commodity managers, R&D engineers, and current-product site Supplier Quality engineers.
  • Coach, mentor supplier quality engineers as well as suppliers and transfer technical knowhow
  • Manage projects necessary to execute continuous improvement plans in accordance with the commodity strategy
  • Drive PPC, Service Bulletin and Quality Alert efforts from containment to closure including field support

Requirements

  • Quality concepts: basic quality tools and problem solving techniques
  • Demonstrated knowledge regarding data models and data mining
  • Exposure to reporting packages (Business Objects etc), databases (SQL, etc)
  • High competency in Excel, Word, Powerpoint and Access
  • Project management skills: training and successful use of tools
  • Demonstrated strong attention to detail ensuring records and data systems are current and accurate
  • Experience working between various functional areas in a manufacturing environment
  • Growing analytical skills with the ability to collect, organize, analyze, and disseminate significant amounts of information with attention to detail and accuracy
  • Requires excellent communication skills
  • Intermediate level skills and demonstrated proficiency requirements include: Supplier Development Continuous Improvement

Benefits

  • medical
  • dental
  • vision
  • paid vacation
  • 401k (up to 4% match)
  • Health Savings Account (with company contribution)
  • well-being program
  • product purchase discounts

Job title

Supplier Quality Engineer

Job type

Experience level

Mid levelSenior

Salary

$76,300 - $110,000 per year

Degree requirement

Bachelor's Degree

Tech skills

Location requirements

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