What are the responsibilities and job description for the Supplier Quality Engineer position at Hilti North America?
Setting the Standard for Quality and Reliability
Supplier Quality Engineer ensures suppliers consistently provide high-quality products and services by conducting audits, implementing quality control plans, analyzing defect trends, and collaborating with both suppliers and internal teams to resolve issues and drive continuous improvement. The role involves managing supplier relationships, maintaining supplier performance metrics, ensuring compliance with company and regulatory standards, and supporting new product development to maintain supply chain integrity.
What You'll Do
We're a big company with a family-owned feel. You will be given the opportunity to make big changes that will ripple throughout the industry while feeling right at home with the Hilti family.
In addition to a competitive base salary and bonus potential, we offer a robust benefits package including a generous paid time off policy that includes vacation, personal days, health & wellness, and 2 days per year to give back in your local community, paid family leave, educational reimbursement, 401(k) matching, medical/dental/vision coverage, and a variety of other benefits to fit the needs of our employees.
Why Hilti
Hilti is a global leader in construction innovation, with more than 34,000 team members across 120 countries. Guided by our purpose, Making Construction Better, we’re driven to keep learning, growing, and finding new ways to make a lasting impact. Here, you’ll be empowered to use your strengths, work with a global and inclusive team, and take on meaningful challenges. At Hilti, you’ll have the chance to make your ideas, achievements, and growth real through purpose, passion, and teamwork.
Commitment to Inclusion
At Hilti, inclusion is a key focus in how we work, lead, and grow together. We are committed to embracing diversity of thought and creating an environment that is inclusive of everyone, everywhere. We continuously strive to ensure every voice is valued and every team member feels empowered to contribute. By building on this foundation, we strengthen our teams, our innovation, and our impact, making construction better together.
Legal Notice
Hilti, Inc is committed to employing a diverse workforce. Qualified applicants will receive consideration without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, veteran status, or disability.
Supplier Quality Engineer ensures suppliers consistently provide high-quality products and services by conducting audits, implementing quality control plans, analyzing defect trends, and collaborating with both suppliers and internal teams to resolve issues and drive continuous improvement. The role involves managing supplier relationships, maintaining supplier performance metrics, ensuring compliance with company and regulatory standards, and supporting new product development to maintain supply chain integrity.
What You'll Do
- Account for the supplier quality of defined products by Leading qualification of the manufacturing process for new products at supplier side in product development projects.
- Establish and continuously improve quality management system at suppliers.
- Conduct supplier audits to qualify new suppliers / processes and track improvements for risk avoidance.
- Carry out onsite release and quality control at supplier side for outgoing inspection depending on the need from project.
- Handling product complaint with 8D/A3 report and sustainably driving the measures with suppliers.
- Be willing to travel both domestic (50%) and international (20%) – supplier site, customer base & HQ.
- University Bachelor or Master degree major in technical orientation (mechanical/production/industrial)
- Proven professional Quality experience of 3 years in SQ role with expertise on set of manufacturing technologies
- Excellent technical and quality management skills with adequate experience in Supplier audit, APQP, Lean, 6Sigma, FMEA, 8D, 5Why, DFM, MSA etc.
- Excellent fluency in moderation and communication skills in oral and written English
- Proven experience in Supplier management, supplier development and improvement initiatives
- Basic economic knowledge and understanding of business correlations of costs, risks and impact
- Basic knowledge of legal and contract aspects of quality, warranty and liability
- Good moderation, communication and presentation skills
- Self-sufficient in problem analysis and drive for results
- Good understanding of manufacturing technologies
We're a big company with a family-owned feel. You will be given the opportunity to make big changes that will ripple throughout the industry while feeling right at home with the Hilti family.
In addition to a competitive base salary and bonus potential, we offer a robust benefits package including a generous paid time off policy that includes vacation, personal days, health & wellness, and 2 days per year to give back in your local community, paid family leave, educational reimbursement, 401(k) matching, medical/dental/vision coverage, and a variety of other benefits to fit the needs of our employees.
Why Hilti
Hilti is a global leader in construction innovation, with more than 34,000 team members across 120 countries. Guided by our purpose, Making Construction Better, we’re driven to keep learning, growing, and finding new ways to make a lasting impact. Here, you’ll be empowered to use your strengths, work with a global and inclusive team, and take on meaningful challenges. At Hilti, you’ll have the chance to make your ideas, achievements, and growth real through purpose, passion, and teamwork.
Commitment to Inclusion
At Hilti, inclusion is a key focus in how we work, lead, and grow together. We are committed to embracing diversity of thought and creating an environment that is inclusive of everyone, everywhere. We continuously strive to ensure every voice is valued and every team member feels empowered to contribute. By building on this foundation, we strengthen our teams, our innovation, and our impact, making construction better together.
Legal Notice
Hilti, Inc is committed to employing a diverse workforce. Qualified applicants will receive consideration without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, veteran status, or disability.