Senior Supplier Quality Engineer

Job description

Job responsibilities

• As a Supplier Quality Engineer, you’ll work closely with Supply Chain, Engineering, and Manufacturing to develop and manage a high-performing electrical supply base capable of delivering consistent, repeatable quality…
• You’ll design and execute a robust supplier qualification and audit framework, assessing manufacturing readiness, quality management systems, process controls, and capacity to sustain quality through increasing…
• You’ll review and approve supplier quality documentation such as FAIs, PPAPs, PFMEAs, and Control Plans, ensuring inspection and test strategies are appropriate for both early production and scale.
• You’ll lead supplier issue resolution end to end, driving structured root cause analysis and corrective actions while holding suppliers accountable for performance.

Job requirements

• You’re comfortable spending time on factory floors, in supplier facilities, and on video calls digging into real problems.
• Ambiguity doesn’t scare you; you’re willing to make decisions with imperfect information, recognize when something isn’t working, and pivot quickly.
• You can clearly communicate quality risks, findings, and recommendations to a wide range of audiences, from operators to senior leadership.
• You’ve led on-site supplier audits and developed corrective action plans that actually improved manufacturing outcomes.
• You’ve qualified new suppliers or manufacturing lines and supported them through early builds and volume ramps.
• You understand common failure modes in electrical assemblies and know how to design inspection and test strategies to catch issues early.
• You’ve built lightweight but effective quality processes that scale, rather than heavyweight systems that slow teams down.