Supplier Quality Engineer - Senior

Key Responsibilities :

• Build strong relationships with all critical partners to improve quality and business outcomes, including external suppliers, external customers, and internal customers and stakeholders such as Purchasing, Manufacturing, and Engineering.
• Support the cross-functional supplier selection process for any given component.
• Collaborate with external suppliers to validate that the manufacturing process is designed to conform to engineering prints, standards, and customer-specific requirements.
• Apply industry-standard Advanced Product Quality Planning (APQP) processes, Automotive Industry Action Group (AIAG) tools, and Cummins specialty tools to develop zero-defect components within the external supply base.
• Embrace continuous improvement in the external supply base by contributing to product and process-focused projects utilizing methodologies such as lean and six-sigma.
• Conduct external supplier audits to support supplier risk mitigation, readiness, and performance improvement.
• Support quality improvement plans within the external supply base to enhance supplier performance.
• Ensure resolution of external supplier-related quality challenges by leading root cause analysis, supporting the development of corrective actions, and verifying the effectiveness of corrective actions.

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Experience :

Role :   Quality Engineer

Industry Type :   Industrial Equipment / Machinery

Department :   Quality Assurance

Employment Type :   Full Time, Permanent

Role Category :   Production & Manufacturing

Education

UG :   Any Graduate

PG :   Any Postgraduate

Skills Required

Supplier Quality Engineer, APQP, Ppap, Data Mining