Lead Supplier Quality Engineer

Job Title: Lead, Quality Engineering

Job Code: 27135

Job Location: Londonderry, NH

Job Schedule: 1st shift - 9/80: Employees work 9 out of every 14 days – totaling 80 hours worked – and have every other Friday off

Job Description:

Lead Supplier Quality projects to ensure internal, customer, regulatory and 3rd party requirements are defined, procured to, measured and continuously improved. Drive impactful improvements in supplier performance. Lead issuance of Supplier Corrective Actions and support supplier root cause investigations to identify effective corrective action initiatives which address Material and Service defects, non-conformances, and/or compliance gaps. Drive Supplier quality execution and interact with Manufacturing, Supply Chain, Program Management, and Engineering personnel to maintain high quality deliveries from Supply base.

Essential Functions:

• Support and assist with the continuous improvement efforts, deployment and management of a business-appropriate Supplier Quality Engineering program addressing customer, supply base, proposal, process, program, and hardware areas
• Lead an Integrated Product Team (supplier quality, procurement, subcontract managers, supply chain engineering) as the supplier quality representative and present to supply chain management quarterly
• Assure financial goals and measures are met. Perform data analytics associated with Cost of Poor quality and determining solutions to be implemented to reduce the cost
• Continuously improve the supplier quality assurance and incoming inspection organizations’ planning, tools and processes for the development, qualification, and management of suppliers and subcontractors
• Measure, monitor, report, and improve the internal and external performance of all areas of responsibility, including supplier and subcontractor performance across the supply base
• In partnership with Supply Chain, Engineering, and Manufacturing, continuously improve design, manufacturability, test, and inspection information to assure improved performance of the products produced by the supply base and their integration into the division’s deliverable goods and services
• Support product development reviews within the supply base
• Assist with quality audits, failure analysis and incident investigations, to address customer and business specific quality engineering and reliability related criteria in partnership with Supply Chain, Engineering, Manufacturing, and Supply Chain Management
• Partner with Procurement and Supplier Quality Engineering to develop advanced risk management tools and reporting mechanisms including risk management for supplier involving supplier corrective actions, get well plans, probation/restriction letters
• Assist with annual operating plans and business strategies for the Supplier Quality Assurance and Receiving Inspection teams
• Interface with customer and program representatives throughout the program life cycle in supplier quality assurance related activities and tasks
• Execute continuous improvement activities related to the Supplier Quality Assurance team as assigned by leadership
• Perform source inspection and direct customer shipments from the suppliers and subcontractors, where necessary
• Mentor and train new supplier quality engineers (Area of knowledge: Multiple Commodity Specializations as Lead) 
• Provide support for “best practices” associated with Supplier Quality including both quality and on-time delivery
• Requires 50-75% travel: Note Majority of Suppliers are located within the New England region and the Londonderry, NH Site.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree and minimum 9 years of prior relevant experience. Graduate Degree and a minimum of 7 years of prior related experience. In lieu of a degree, minimum of 13 years of prior related experience in Supplier Quality Engineering.

Preferred Additional Skills:

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering related discipline (e.g. Electrical, Mathematics, Systems, etc.)
• 7-9 years experience in any of the following positions in a Regulated company (Defense or Aerospace preferred):  Quality Engineer, Quality Assurance, Process Engineer
• 7-9 years experience with supply chain management / supplier management processes, tools, and techniques
• 6 years experience with Failure Mode Effects Analysis is desired (e.g. DFMEA, PFMEA)
• 6 years experience with continuous improvement related analysis tools and techniques (e.g. design for six sigma, root cause analysis, statistical process control, lean manufacturing techniques, Failure Reporting Analysis and Corrective Action Systems (FRACAS))
• 6 years’ hands on experience with and knowledge of AS9100 Quality
• Management System and AS9102 First Article requirements
• Professional certification is desired (e.g. APICS, PMP, CMP, Quality Engineering, Six Sigma)
• QMS Lead auditor experience
• Excellent communication and teambuilding skills and an ability to manage relationships with internal and external customers, fostering a relationship of trust and mutual respect