Job Summary: Responsible for Supplier Quality Assurance, Quality Engineering, Inspection, Supplier development programs and resolving quality related concerns
Essential Job Duties:
• Work with Global Sourcing to ensure supplier performance is regularly reported and those appropriate and timely corrective actions are implemented.
• Aide Global Sourcing in the evaluation and qualification of new supplier, product following a defined new product part approval process.
• Participate on definition of product specifications, technical, quality & packaging requirement with Global Sourcing, Category Management, Engineering, & Supplier.
• Approve new products as a result from strategic sourcing activities by applying APQP and PPAP standards.
• Champion problem solving and root cause analysis activities with suppliers and customers to eliminate recurrence of non‐conformances
• Develop & implement Supplier development programs with short / long term goals.
• Perform supplier audits, shipment audits and maintain all quality records.
• Monitor, communicate and improve key supply chain KPI’s, including Supplier OTD (Past due) & Defect returns
• Liaison between customer service team and suppliers in resolving product, quality related queries
• Participates in special projects and performs additional duties as required