Job Description:

• Achieves continual improvement in product and supplied material quality, delivery, and cost.
• Works with assigned suppliers externally and with Product Development, Purchasing, and other associated functions internally.
• Applies appropriate techniques to improve supplier capacity, performance, and technology.
• Areas of focus include new product initiatives, capacity expansion projects, cost reduction initiatives, best practices, standardization, and utilization of existing assets.
• Individual will play a key role in setting divisional strategy to ensure cost-efficient flow of materials within the company, and is responsible for meeting future development requirements.
• Active participation with Product Development team members to ensure compliance to specification and supplier process capability.
• Collaborate with product design functions to identify and document critical part and product characteristics and quality requirements.
• Team with Product management and Design Engineering groups across the company to support the effective launch of new products.
• Facilitate complete supplier understanding of design and quality requirements by leading detailed and systematic specification reviews.
• Establish relationships with key Engineering, Operations, and Product Management individuals to enable expedient review and approval of First Article samples and Material Evaluation Requests.
• Use Advanced Quality Planning tools to ensure that supplier processes are capable and will consistently meet established requirements with high statistical confidence.
• Assist suppliers in the planning and completion of process / test system qualification and validation.
• Evaluate and approves supplier production readiness.
• Prepare, interpret, and present key quality metrics to commodity team and management team members.
• Play a key role in the planning and documentation of supplier management activities through supplier reviews.
• Support the development and execution of commodity strategies.
• Drive implementation of engineering cost savings projects.
• Obtain and communicate supplier process capabilities, limitations, and design guidelines to internal stakeholders.
• Support the development of standardized engineering work systems and processes to provide common tools for project management, and project documentation.

Qualifications:
• Bachelor’s degree in Industrial Engineering, Mechanical Engineering or Electrical Engineering
• Minimum of 10 years experience in Quality Engineering
• 6 months experience with the Harris First Article Process