Supplier Quality Assurance Engineer
About the role:
The Supplier Quality Assurance Engineer (“SQA”) is responsible for ensuring that suppliers continue to develop and implement best practices that emphasize defect prevention, reduce variation and waste, develop continuous improvements to meet quality standards, minimize quality costs, and maximize customer/consumer satisfaction whilst ensuring that procedures and processes are adhered to. The SQA is the technical liaison between Sourcing, Engineering, Manufacturing, and the Supply Base. The candidate we are looking for will primarily serve one of our two plants in Sweden, with a supplier base spread around in Europe. The position includes frequent traveling to our plant in customer and to supplier locations primarily in Sweden, but also occasionally in Europe
Key responsibilities:
• Establish, maintain and improve supplier quality assurance across supply base.
• Closely work together with Purchasing, Project Management, R&D and Manufacturing to initiate the processes of APQP and PPAP in new or existing projects/parts
• Perform audits on new and existing suppliers with the purpose of evaluating the expected quality performance of the supplier, and provide relevant information into supplier selection decision forums and commodity management.
• Guide the suppliers through the APQP process and approve the result of the suppliers Advanced Product Quality Planning (“APQP”) work.
• Provide support to the supplier during the corrective action process effecting internal and external customers.
• Develop improvement actions for underperforming suppliers designed to increase the supplier capability of consistently meeting customer Group quality requirements. Actions may include: process analysis, value stream mapping, process capability and throughput analysis, 6‐Sigma, 5S and Kaizen events.
• Participate in internal and external drawing reviews to synchronize the demands in order to reduce risk and avoid misunderstanding.
• Coordinate with Commodity Managers in the selection, assessment and approval of supplier and purchased parts.
• Verify supplier PPAP submissions for all new part designs within assigned New Product Development (“NPD”) and Project improvements (“PI”).
Location: This position is based in Jonsered, just outside of Gothenburg or any other . We offer a hybrid working model.
Why join us?
At customer Construction we strive to have a work environment that is inclusive and diverse, where we believe that our differences are our strengths. Our winning culture is important to us, which is why we go by the beliefs: We Care, We’re Bold and We’re Courageous.
Who are you?
To be successful in this role, you should be a supplier quality professional who can work both independently and as part of a team. You should be proactive, taking initiative to meet your objectives while understanding the risks and opportunities related to supplier quality activities. Good knowledge on SQA activities during project phase is a must. You need to be flexible, curious, and able to thrive in a dynamic environment with diverse projects and tasks. Given our global environment, you should be open-minded, culturally aware, and skilled at building relationships worldwide with internal and external stakeholders.
Qualifications:
• Possession of recognized qualification in quality engineering, audit processes and relevant certifications (e.g. Six Sigma) is of a clear advantage.
• Bachelor’s degree in engineering or other relevant discipline
• Minimum 5 years of experience from Quality Assurance/Engineering
• Working knowledge of ISO 9001 Quality Management System and databases.
• Experience performing Full Supplier Quality Audits (“FSQA”) and Process Audits with new and existing suppliers
• Thorough working knowledge of quality systems methods and quality engineering practices (APQP, PPAP, Root Cause Analysis, Lean manufacturing concepts, etc.)
• Relevant experience in reading and interpreting technical drawings/specification
• Strong planning, organization, analytical, and problem solving skills
• Strong written and verbal communications skills
