Supplier Quality Engineer

Job Title:            Supplier Quality Engineer

Location:            Mumbai, India

SUMMARY

This position will be responsible for Parts Quality and Supplier Process Development, to ensure RFT and long-term process capability of outsourced parts. This position needs to work as a bridge between Portescap and suppliers.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

Here are your key responsibilities:

• Review and assess supplier processes.

• Identify quality issues.

• Maintain documentation and reports.

• Provide technical guidance and assistance.

• Communicate with suppliers and senior management.

• Ensure that products / processes supplied are managed in accordance with all specified product quality requirements and ensuring that timely and accurate information is made available to all affected parties.

• Visit suppliers on a proactive & regular basis to report performance and review systems and perform on-site supplier process audits for all high impact suppliers.

• Coordinate for deviation requests and ensure proper approvals and tracking of material under deviation.

• Manage supplier corrective actions and timely 8D closures, ensuring a thorough root cause analysis is performed, to eliminate possible recurrence of defects.

• Maintain supplier records in accordance with documented requirements & track supplier performance in accordance with defined guidelines.

• Co-ordinate with suppliers to identify Root causes by 5 Why analysis & Counter measures, also understand Supplier yield progress.

• Establish optimum supplier’s product / process efficiency and quality.

• Manage supplier corrective actions and ensuring thorough root cause analysis is being performed to eliminate possible reoccurrence (Verification at the supplier sites should be considered for significant concerns)

• Conduct detailed supplier APQP reviews using cross-functional teams for all outsourced products prior to approving PPAP.

• Review supplier manufacturing processes, collaborate with suppliers on process improvement and value enhancement opportunities.

• Support the Quality Manager to monitor and report on supplier product quality and performance.

• Ensure compliance to RoHS, REACH and Conflict Minerals statutory requirements.

• Participate in cross-functional teams in the development of new products or changes related to current products in meeting customer requirements.

• Manage and coordinate supplier Parts Per Million (PPM), supplier problem solving on time, cost recovery and supplier warranty indicators.

• Lead quality audits.

• Support and lead process improvement activities at the supplier.

• Undertake special projects as required.

• Contribute to continuous improvement activities.

• Facilitate the escalation of unresolved supplier quality issues within assigned projects and suppliers.

• Execute, monitor, review and improve supplier score card on regular basis.

Education and Experience Requirements

• Diploma (with Exp. of 10+ Yrs.) / BE (with experience of 7+ Yrs.)

Functional Competencies

• Strong know-how of Machining, Stampings, Plastics and Electronics parts (knowledge of different commodities e.g., sheet metal, machining, adhesives, molding etc.)

• Hands-on experience in part validation (PPAP) and Quality tools

• Strong expertise in Process Development at Supplier

• Ensure compliance to RoHS, REACH and Conflict Minerals statutory requirements.

• Exposure to Kaizen and Lean Manufacturing techniques

• Working proficiency in usage of MS-Office Tools (Excel, Word & PowerPoint)

• Understand Engineering drawings and documents.

• Well conversant with implementing standards & Quality Systems like DIN, ISO, TS16949, OSHAS   

• Working knowledge of ERP (Oracle / SAP etc.)       

Internal: Incoming Quality & QA, Production, Engineering, Sourcing, Purchase & Stores

External: Suppliers

LANGUAGE SKILLS:

Fluency in Verbal and written communication English & Hindi