Supplier Quality Engineer (m/f/d)

Your main tasks:

• Act as organization and suppliers' single-point-of-contact for topics and issues related to supplier quality.
• Lead supplier related APQP activities to ensure incoming quality is proactively planned, prepared, and ensured in advance before PPAP and production release.
• Continually improving supplier performance through coaching, teaching, training, consequence enforcement, supplier awards and motivation, supplier restriction and disqualification, etc.
• Measure and communicate supplier performance to those suppliers and the organization.
• Evaluate, qualify, approve appropriate new, competitive suppliers (including searching for new suppliers), in collaboration with the commodity teams.
• Review and approve/reject/amend supplier Production Part Approval Process (PPAP) submissions for new product releases and qualifying changes to existing components.
• Monitor quality data within the operating systems to ensure data accuracy and develop reporting systems to accurately document and record supplier trends and performance.
• Periodically monitor quality specifications to ensure supplier compliance.
• Work with engineering to clarify and change specs regarding incoming goods when necessary.
• Clearly communicate (and enforce) TE's requirements and expectations to suppliers.
• Solicit, drive, monitor, review, approve and validate containment/corrective/preventive actions by suppliers. Facilitate supplier quality roadmaps leading to improved supplier performance.
• Conduct process and system audits of suppliers and maintain working knowledge of ISO and AS9100 quality system requirements.
• Participate in QBRs (Quarterly Business Review) with key suppliers. 
• Coordinate TE Supplier Days with key suppliers.
• Perform source inspection and product assessments at suppliers.

Your ideal background:

• Bachelor’s Degree (Electrical Engineering, preferred, Process Engineering, Manufacturing Engineering, Chemical Engineering or other engineering disciplines) or other equivalent work experience. 
•  5+ years’ experience in a manufacturing environment.
• Working knowledge of ISO 9001 preferred AS9100
• 5+ years in a supplier development role
• Lean Six Sigma Blackbelt certification.
• 5+ years conducting quality audits.
• Practical application of 8D, 5-why and Ishikawa
• Ability and willingness to travel up to 60% of the time.
• Excellent people skills
• Must be able to travel is 50% - 75% of the time – EMEA

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