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Air-Way Manufacturing Supplier Quality Engineer in Olivet, Michigan
Minimum Education: Bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering, manufacturing engineering, or equivalent (or Associate's degree in these fields plus minimum 4 years of industrial experience.)
Location: Olivet, MI
Employmet Type: Full-Time, Salaried, Exempt
The SQE interacts with suppliers, Plant Managers, Quality Supervisors, and other departments while analyzing manufacturing processes for improvement using various methods of testing and inspection.
Essential duties and responsiblities include, but are not limited to the following:
- Develop, apply, and maintain quality requirements and standards for development and manufacturing products; internally and externally.
- Serve as primary quality resource for problem identification, resolution, loss reporting, and continuous improvment related to the supply base (support for internal processes.)
- Support concurrent engineering efforts by participating in design development projects representing quality, suppliers, and the customer.
- Design and implement methods for process control, process improvement, testing and inspection.
- Promote and execute quality standards, inspection processes, test methodology, quality plans, documents, and reports.
- Assist in process certification.
- Review customer quotes, purchase orders, contracts, change requests, and ensure that the necessary criteria and provisions are included in quality and process plans.
- Develop, execute, and analyze supplier quality reporting measures.
- Report to management on quality issues, trends and losses related to the supply base.
- Review supplier purchase orders and establish supplier quality requirements.
- Participate in internal and external audits.
- Interact with supplier and customer quality representatives concerning problems with quality assurance and ensure that effective corrective actoin is implemented.
- Establish and revise, as necessary, essential Quality Documentation relative to PPAP activity including PFMEA, process flow diagrams, PFD, Control Plans, Gage R&R Studies, etc.
- Maintain supplier contacts in the system.
Additional Requirements:
- Technical capacity.
- Business acumen.
- Excellent communication skills (written & verbal.)
- Problem solving / analysis.
- Decision making.
- Results driven.
- Must have valid passport.