Lead Supplier Quality Engineer

SummaryAs a Lead Supplier Quality Engineer, you will play a critical role in ensuring supplier deliveries consistently meet all customer quality and regulatory requirements. Your responsibilities will include leading preventive enhancement initiatives to improve supplier manufacturing processes and actively contributing to sourcing and industrialization efforts to achieve the target of zero customer defects. The role also involves collaborating with sourcing and product engineering teams to conduct preventive assessments of design-to-manufacturing processes, ensuring that quality systems are adaptable and responsive to changing demand.

Job Description

Essential Responsibilities

Lead the organization in resolution of any customer quality concerns which may relate to supplier performance

Monitor customer score cards and plan preventive actions against disruptions triggered by suppliers

Partner with supplier to anticipate volume evolution and changing landscape for quality requirements and improvements

Provide engineering support to supplier manufacturing process ensuring consistent application of quality techniques to resolve quality issues of capability, tolerancing and materials

Lead supplier eligibility assessment, readiness review and surveillance audits, ensure early containment actions apply

Lead APQP (customer requirements flow down, FMEA, leverage lessons learnt, etc.) ensuring that PPAP are approved on-site when it is required

Promote the use of Flight Deck tools across multidisciplinary teams

Develop breakthrough process improvement strategies and implement them in collaboration with stakeholders through the application of Flight Deck principles, as Hoshin Kanri, driving Productivity on Product Cost and Service business

Active member of the Hoshin Kanri initiatives and lean development to strategic/critical suppliers

Handle daily shop issues related to supplied parts by identification & containment of non-compliances

Regular daily metric management of Supplier Quality KPI’s thru standard work

Attendance to production planning meetings to provide the status of supplier quality related constraints preventing product/process release

Lead with all the related stakeholders all problem-solving events to contain internal scraps and supplier escapes, find root cause and corrective action, make the risk assessment and standardize through Lesson Learnt/FMEA

Stop-off the production in the event of uncontained supplied off-spec parts

Gatekeeper for scrap assets, control and inventory related to supplier parts

Lead risk assessment (e.g. PFMEA, PQA, etc) to ensure compliance to product/process/system quality requirements

Determine improvement parameters by identifying statistical methods relevant to sustain manufacturing processes to adhere to standard requirements and prevent occurrence of any non-conformity related to product, process or system

Deployment through Yokoten of Lessons Learnt from established successful preventive actions

Qualifications/Requirements

Master of Science in Engineering degree

Previous experience in quality assurance and control within a complex manufacturing environment

Understanding of mechanical processes and materials used in the aerospace industry

Familiarity with aerospace standards and customer-specific requirements

Certified auditor.

Strong background in GD&T (Geometric Dimensioning and Tolerancing)

Proven Track Record in Quality Tools: PDCA/A3, Ishikawa diagram/3x5L Why, SIPOC/Process Flow Diagram/Process Flow Chart. Production Control Plan/FMEA, APQP/PPAP, SPC/Run Charts, MSA

Knowledge of Manufacturing Processes: Complex assembly, Machining, Electronic assembly, Welding/Brazing, Sheet metal forming, Heat treatment/Thermal coating

Willingness to travel at least 50% of the time

Fluency in English and Italian

Work Visa in accordance with local regulation is required

Desired Characteristics

Familiarity with GE Quality Systems and Tools: eCAV, eNMS, SPS (or equivalent customer tools)

Proficiency in GE Avio Aero IT Tools: APICE, SAP, Quarta EVO

Skilled at persuading, motivating, and energizing others at all levels.

Passionate, personable, self-confident, and likeable

Able to flex style to direct, collaborate, or empower as the situation requires.

Ability to establish a personal power base built on mutual trust, fairness, and honesty

Establish and maintain productive relationships and networks, utilizing them to facilitate business transactions

Effectively manage time and prioritize multiple competing tasks wisely

Identify and solve problems, develop innovative solutions, act decisively, and demonstrate good judgment

Ability to think logically and methodically

Maintain appropriate focus on short- and long-term goals

Motivated by achievement and persist until goals are reached, conveying a sense of urgency

Additional Information

Relocation Assistance Provided: No

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