Sr. Supplier Quality Engineer

A Sr. Supplier Quality Engineer job in Minneapolis, MN, is available through IntePros.

• Hiring manager looking to start interviewing week of January 5th.
  
  

Candidates will be responsible for overseeing and ensuring the quality of materials and services provided by suppliers to support sustaining and new product manufacturing.

Candidates will take ownership of proactive supplier management, including supplier evaluations, audits, and performance monitoring, ensuring compliance with company and customer standards, material requirements, and applicable regulations, which includes identifying and resolving quality issues, managing supplier change requests, and driving continuous improvement initiatives through supplier coaching and collaboration. This position will define, implement, and improve supplier-related practices and procedures. Candidates will provide technical guidance for measurement methodologies, material qualification, validation, and problem-solving.

This is a Direct-Hire opportunity.

This is an onsite opportunity.

This role will be between $ 97,000k yr and $ 125,000.00k yr D.O.Q.

Sr. Supplier Quality Engineer Job Responsibilities Include



• Quality Engineering lead for materials and services suppliers provide from new product introduction through sustaining.
• Lead and manage supplier corrective action and supplier change notification processes.
• Ensure compliance of supplier controls processes and agreements with customer requirements, ISO13485, FDA, and other regulations and standards.
• Provide leadership and supplier interface support for supplier quality issues through supplier quality system audits, corrective action requests, change requests, and technical discussions.
• Lead quality investigations using failure analysis, corrective and preventative actions, and trend analysis for customer complaints and manufacturing issues for materials and services provided by suppliers.
• Support identification of new suppliers and onboarding of suppliers through evaluation of capabilities and onboarding audits.
• Define supplier performance metrics and proactively assess and report on supplier performance and capabilities through audits, meetings/business reviews, and performance monitoring.
• Manage the supplier audit process, including acting as lead auditor for supplier and internal audits to assess compliance with regulatory standards and company requirements. Develop an audit plan, execute the audit, evaluate, follow up, resolve audit observations and findings, and complete required documentation.
• Continually improve supplier performance through coaching, training, consequence enforcement, supplier motivation, and supplier roadmaps.
• Support inspection requirements and material qualification to ensure compliance with relevant requirements; facilitate PFMEAs; resolve discrepant material issues; and create and maintain quality documents such as control and inspection plans.
• Understand and support validation of processes, equipment, and metrology, including creating protocols, analyzing data, and executing reports.
  
  

Qualifications

• Must have a Bachelor’s Degree in Mechanical, Industrial, or other Engineering or Physical science.
• Must have at least 7 years of experience with demonstrated ability in engineering, quality engineering, or quality control in a manufacturing setting.
• Knowledge of quality systems, regulatory requirements, and industry standards PFMEA, FMEA, IQ, OQ, PQ, SCAR, and CAR.
• Process validation and material qualification.
• Must have experience with ISO13485.
• Ability to read and interpret documents such as technical drawings, specifications, requirements, standards, and procedure manuals, including Blueprint reading and GD&T.
• Ability to make sound judgments while complying with policies, procedures, and applicable standards and regulations.
• Statistical expertise with DOE, Capability Studies, and advanced statistical analysis methods, including statistical software such as Minitab.
• Microsoft Office proficiency (Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Publisher)
• Ability to travel up to 20% to visit suppliers.
  
  

If you are interested in this senior supplier Quality Engineer job in Minneapolis, MN, please click APPLY NOW. For other opportunities available at IntePros, go to https://intepros.com/ . If you have questions, please contact Jeffrey Anderson ~ janderson@intepros.com