Supplier Quality Engineer – ATS, Electronics

Role Overview

• Partner with suppliers to monitor performance, communicate expectations, and ensure timely implementation of corrective and preventive actions.
• Guide supplier quality improvement initiatives to strengthen process capability, reduce variation, and improve overall manufacturing performance using methodologies such as process analysis, value stream mapping, Six Sigma, 5S, and Kaizen.
• Support new product launches by guiding suppliers through Advanced Product Quality Planning (APQP) activities and ensuring readiness for series production.
• Maintain supplier audit schedules and quality system records to ensure compliance with internal standards and industry requirements.
• Document and manage supplier quality issues, including investigation findings, containment actions, disposition decisions, and long-term resolution plans.
• Conduct supplier process and product audits to verify compliance, confirm product conformity, and drive standardization, waste reduction, and continuous improvement.
• Monitor, analyze, and improve key supplier quality and delivery metrics, including DPPM, quality complaints, and capacity readiness to support on-time shipment performance.
• Support the development of short
• and long-term supplier quality objectives aligned with business goals, customer requirements, and operational priorities.
• Champion structured problem-solving and root cause analysis with suppliers and cross-functional teams to eliminate repeat nonconformances and improve overall product quality.
• Assist in resolving supplier technical and quality issues with urgency to protect production continuity, minimize disruption, and support customer satisfaction.
• Review and approve supplier PPAP submissions and evaluate critical deliverables such as control plans, capability studies, part layouts, gage designs, gage R&R, PFMEA, and DFMEA while supporting supplier changes and launch readiness activities.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering with at least 1 year of relevant experience
• Strong verbal and written communication skills with the ability to work effectively across suppliers, operations, engineering, and cross-functional teams
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office applications, including Excel, Word, and PowerPoint.
• Project management experience supporting supplier development, launch readiness, or quality improvement initiatives (exceptional candidates might have this)
• Experience with statistical process control and data-driven analysis to improve process stability and product quality (exceptional candidates might have this)
• Working knowledge of GD&T and its application in manufacturing and supplier quality processes (exceptional candidates might have this)
• Hands-on experience with structured problem-solving methodologies and root cause analysis tools (exceptional candidates might have this)
• Strong understanding of the PPAP review and approval process, including required documentation and production readiness expectations (exceptional candidates might have this)
• Audit experience with automotive and quality management standards such as VDA, IATF 16949, and ISO 9001 (exceptional candidates might have this)
• Foreign language skills are a plus in support of global supplier engagement (exceptional candidates might have this).

Benefits

• annual bonus program
• 401k company contribution with company match up to 6%
• non-elective company contribution of 3
• 7% depending on age
• starting at 4 weeks paid vacation
• 13+ calendar holidays
• 8 weeks paid parental leave
• employee assistance program
• comprehensive healthcare plans and wellness programs
• onsite fitness (at some locations)
• tuition assistance
• volunteer paid time off
• short-term and long-term disability plans