Supplier Quality Engineer
Company: TREMEC
Location: Novi
Posted on: August 1, 2022
Job Description:
The Supplier Quality Engineer position involves functioning as
technical liaison between purchasing, engineering, manufacturing,
operations and suppliers. Resolves technical & quality issues,
implements and monitors advanced quality planning process, and
provides technical support for manufacturing process validation and
assure accomplishment of the product with the engineering
specifications and quality requirements.
PRIMARY DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
- Participate in the sourcing process, selection and evaluation
of new potential suppliers as a support function to purchasing to
have an approved supplier base
- Involved with new business allocation, supplier feasibility
analysis. Pre-fill out the feasibility analysis format describing
the special characteristics and future quality requirements,
including the early production containment (PCPP = GP-12)
- Implement and monitor advanced quality planning process with
selected suppliers for new business, be responsible for supplier
APQP progress and process until final PPAP approval by engineering
within time frame and according to requirement by engineering in
coordination with purchasing
- Assure supplier's understanding of product and submission
requirements
- Review supplier's manufacturing processes and quality
systems
- Assure the accomplishment of the product with the drawing
tolerances, engineering specifications & quality requirements with
selected suppliers
- Function as liaison between purchasing, engineering,
manufacturing, operations and suppliers to resolve supplier quality
& technical issues and to provide technical support
- Define the metrics, goals and periodic monitoring of supplier
performance, improve quality performance of suppliers by conducting
workshops at supplier locations, providing technical assistance in
developing a quality system, or other technical support as
required
- Maintain required documentation and files
- Identify part critical characteristics from product design
and/or learned lessons and deploy to the supplier the required
process controls
- Review manufacturing fixtures concept to assure alignment to
the GD&T part design
- Cost recovery activities by DMR with suppliers.
- Support incoming material department
- Application of Controlled Shipping (CS-I and CS-II) procedures
as required
- Coordinate quality product audits in incoming inspection to
assure accomplishment to the requirements and issue a DMR to the
supplier if it applies.
- Determine cause of supplier quality problems and
coordinate/implement effective and timely resolutions through G8D's
problem solving
- Accomplishment of the organization quality system requirements
management with supply base
EDUCATION AND QUALIFICATIONS
- Experience in automotive Supplier Quality Engineering (min 5
years)
- MUST have either machining or metal casting experience.
- Bachelor's Degree in Engineering (Mechanical or Mechatronic is
desirable)
- PREFERRED: 2 years of high-pressure aluminum die casting
experience or similar casting experience
SKILLS AND COMPETENCIES
- Hands on experience in manufacturing (with thorough knowledge
of manufacturing and assembly plant processes, procedures,
facilities and equipment
- Knowledge of automotive industry standards and launch
procedures (as example; AIAG Core tools [APQP, PPAP, MSA, PFMEA,
SPC], TS16949 (Now IATF 16949)
- Highly proficient in print reading and interpretation, part
measurement/GD&T.
- Demonstrated thorough knowledge of probability, statistical
quality control and techniques (for example DOE, SPC, 7 Quality
tools, etc.)
- Demonstrated expertise in investigating complex quality
problems and applying sound technical problem solving skills (as
example; 8D's, root cause analysis [DD&W, 5Why's, Fishbone,
etc.], etc.)
- Overall flexibility due to frequent plan changes driven by
unforeseen current quality issue
- Experience in with casting (as example; gravity, permanent
mold, die cast, investment casting, etc.), forging, machining
(turning, milling, spline rolling, drilling, shaping, shaving,
boring, honing, grinding, etc.) electric & electronic products, PM
process, heat treatment process (as example; carburizing,
nitrating, normalizing, isothermal annealing, quench and temper,
etc.)
- Experience with other transmission components and manufacturing
processesTRAVEL REQUIREMENTS
- 40% travel and ability to periodically work non-traditional
business hours to support local and international suppliers.
Keywords: TREMEC, Novi , Supplier Quality Engineer, Engineering , Novi, Michigan
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