Supplier Quality Engineer

2 days ago

Reading, United Kingdom Owen Daniels Consultancy Full time

**Supplier Quality Engineer**
**Permanent**
**Reading**
**Competitive Salary and package**
- Conduct supplier capability assessments (SCA) in support of an informed approach to supplier selection
- Provide quality oversight and input to negotiations and contracts reviews with key suppliers and contract manufacturers
- Drives supplier quality input to ‘made to specification’ design reviews and works with the stakeholders to ensure the supplier quality risks across the programme are understood and in control
- Establish good relations with the supplier’s quality representatives and lead / support audits/assessments where required
- Communicates supplier feedback and progress to relevant internal stakeholders, escalating issues as appropriate
- Support the Supply Chain team to establish and develop quality procedures and documentation to ensure compliance, accuracy, efficiency, and clarity of requirements with suppliers
- Supports in the development of, and management of the non-conforming material, and associated supplier RCA investigation processes to ensure effective data analysis and reporting is provided to the engineering teams
- Ensures supplier’s adherence to all relevant regulatory legislation and provides approval of all supplier quality documentation
- Drive and support suppliers in continuously improving quality and performance
- Analyses internal and external quality data, documents, and acts on opportunities for improving reliability and quality
- Identifies ways of eliminating unsatisfactory performance, doing things better, cheaper, and/or faster whilst maintaining reliability and quality

**Essential skills and experience needed**:

- 5+ years’ experience, as a Supplier Quality Engineer
- 5+ years’ experience working in a complex electronics quality role
- Strong supplier engagement and management skills
- Lead auditor / auditing qualification to ISO9001 and / or AS9100
- Experience of managing projects through use of APQP
- Capability to generate, manage and review PPAP and FAI documentation
- Ability to facilitate Process Failure Mode Effect Analysis meetings
- Familiar with problem solving techniques (5Y, 8D, Ishikawa etc.)
- Demonstrated in field experience of supplier evaluation, auditing, development, and management of performance metrics
- Strong process and continual improvement skills
- Must be detail focused but with the ability to multitask, and to manage deliverables and handle multiple projects at the same time
- Confident with working across multifunctional teams and excellent communicator to colleagues both verbally and in writing
- Experienced user of Microsoft office, must be able to manipulate and analyse data within excel
- Must have high integrity, be a team player and have good interpersonal / facilitation skills to drive resolution of issues with suppliers
- Ability to travel on request to support supplier quality assurance activities (Estimated 30%+)

**Desirable**:

- Degree or equivalent professional training in Quality Management / Engineering discipline/s
- Qualification in Six Sigma / Total Quality Management tools
- IPC A-610 qualification or experience in quality assurance of electronic assemblies
- QA experience in development of high frequency / telecommunication products
- Knowledge of RoHS & REACH directives

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