Onsite Lead Supplier Quality Engineer

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About the role

  • Lead Supplier Quality Engineer at GE Aerospace ensuring supplier deliveries meet all quality and regulatory requirements while improving manufacturing processes.

Responsibilities

  • Lead the organization in resolution of any customer quality concerns which may relate to supplier performance
  • Monitor customer score cards and plan preventive actions against disruptions triggered by suppliers
  • Partner with supplier to anticipate volume evolution and changing landscape for quality requirements and improvements
  • Provide engineering support to supplier manufacturing process ensuring consistent application of quality techniques to resolve quality issues of capability, tolerancing and materials
  • Lead supplier eligibility assessment, readiness review and surveillance audits, ensure early containment actions apply
  • Lead APQP (customer requirements flow down, FMEA, leverage lessons learnt, etc.) ensuring that PPAP are approved on-site when it is required
  • Promote the use of Flight Deck tools across multidisciplinary teams
  • Develop breakthrough process improvement strategies and implement them in collaboration with stakeholders through the application of Flight Deck principles, as Hoshin Kanri, driving Productivity on Product Cost and Service business
  • Active member of the Hoshin Kanri initiatives and lean development to strategic/critical suppliers
  • Handle daily shop issues related to supplied parts by identification & containment of non-compliances
  • Regular daily metric management of Supplier Quality KPI’s thru standard work
  • Attendance to production planning meetings to provide the status of supplier quality related constraints preventing product/process release
  • Lead with all the related stakeholders all problem-solving events to contain internal scraps and supplier escapes, find root cause and corrective action, make the risk assessment and standardize through Lesson Learnt/FMEA
  • Stop-off the production in the event of uncontained supplied off-spec parts
  • Gatekeeper for scrap assets, control and inventory related to supplier parts
  • Lead risk assessment (e.g. PFMEA, PQA, etc) to ensure compliance to product/process/system quality requirements
  • Determine improvement parameters by identifying statistical methods relevant to sustain manufacturing processes to adhere to standard requirements and prevent occurrence of any non-conformity related to product, process or system
  • Deployment through Yokoten of Lessons Learnt from established successful preventive actions

Requirements

  • Master's Degree in Engineering
  • Previous experience in quality assurance and control within a complex manufacturing environment
  • Understanding of mechanical processes and materials used in the aerospace industry
  • Familiarity with aerospace standards and customer-specific requirements
  • Certified auditor.
  • Strong background in GD&T (Geometric Dimensioning and Tolerancing)
  • Proven Track Record in Quality Tools: PDCA/A3, Ishikawa diagram/3x5L Why, SIPOC/Process Flow Diagram/Process Flow Chart. Production Control Plan/FMEA, APQP/PPAP, SPC/Run Charts, MSA
  • Knowledge of Manufacturing Processes : Complex assembly, Machining, Electronic assembly, Welding/Brazing, Sheet metal forming, Heat treatment/Thermal coating
  • Willingness to travel at least 50% of the time
  • Fluency in English and Italian
  • Work Visa in accordance with local regulation is required

Benefits

  • Performance related bonuses and local bonus scheme
  • Flexible benefits platform
  • Life and injury insurance
  • Private medical cover
  • Employee assistant program
  • Employee special awards (service and recognition)
  • Local special agreements and discounts
  • English and languages training for you and one member of your family
  • Technical, Leadership and development trainings

Job title

Lead Supplier Quality Engineer

Job type

Experience level

Senior

Salary

Not specified

Degree requirement

No Education Requirement

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