Job title: Supplier Quality Engineer (SQE)

Location: San Diego CA (Onsite from day 1)

Position: Fulltime

Job Description:

• Using your knowledge in quality management, analytical thinking, professional network and excellent people skills, you will be responsible for the following:
• Quality Assurance: Improve supplier quality performance by driving execution of existing quality agreements and improvement actions by your suppliers, as well as triggering internal actions for changes in product or process design to eliminate Material Notification (MN s) and Deviation Notifications (DN s)
• Participate in supplier audits to identify gaps in supplier quality management system against Client Supplier Profile requirements. You manage the supplier to define and execute Improvement Plans to structurally resolve open items and de-risk the supplier.
• Coaching the supplier to use Client designed systems (e.g. portals)
• Coaching the supplier in processes, procedures, quality tools and techniques to increase supplier maturity level.
• Validation and acceptance of product readiness (quality) to be released towards volume operations.
• Ensure execution of supplier related issue resolution: MN s, DN s, AIR (Client Issue Resolution)
• Ensure that the definition and execution of Supplier Quality Roadmap is in line with Client quality performance ambitions
• Leading quality escalations and organizing cross sector teams, including supplier, for solving disturbances in the factory and field, due to material quality
• Represent S&SC in the handover process / transition of new products to volume phase.

Education and Experience:

• Bachelor s in engineering (electrical, mechanical, optical, industrial), Supply Chain Management Business Science or equivalent experience.
• Green or Black Belt / Lean Six Sigma experience including tooling (e.g. SPC, FMEA, 8D)
• Minimum 10 years of experience in a manufacturing or supply chain management in a complex technical environment.
• Experience in managing supplier on quality performance, preferably in complex high-tech / low volume industry.
• Experience in quality improvement & operational excellence in manufacturing environment.
• Experience in participating and/or leading improvement projects across the supply chain and/or the S&SC organization.
• Experience in auditing (ISO 9001:2015 or equivalent), quality tools.
• Experience in complex work environment with multiple stakeholders.
• Experience in building and maintaining strategic relations with suppliers.
• Deep understanding and experience with Quality Management Systems and Tools

Skill

Working at the cutting edge of tech, you ll always have new challenges and new problems to solve and working together is the only way to do that. You won t work in a silo. Instead, you ll be part of a creative, dynamic work environment where you ll collaborate with supportive colleagues. There is always space for creative and unique points of view. You ll have the flexibility and trust to choose how best to tackle tasks and solve problems.

To thrive in this job, you ll need the following skills:

• Strong analytical skills, process oriented, business sense and capability to develop vision and strategy.
• Excellent communication skills, interfacing and convincing on all levels
• Drive for solutions, result oriented, hands-on mentality.
• Pro-active, act under high pressure and thinking out of the box.
• Ensures accountability both in the supply chain and at Client.
• Able to collaborate and align across sectors and stakeholders.