Supplier Quality Engineer

About the Role

The Supplier Quality Engineer leads and supports daily supplier management activities at the Sensata make site. Working with cross-functional teams to resolve any supplier-related concerns, they will also take the lead for New Product Development and change management across the site, ensuring support for critical projects.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead key supplier strategic activities and interface with Sourcing on forward-looking roadmaps, including development of new suppliers and/or technologies, local activities, qualification, productivity pipeline cost reduction, components qualification, and supplier capacity verification.
• Initiate supplier-related problem-solving to address performance issues as necessary.
• Drive containment activities.
• Communicate with relevant internal/external contacts and ensure timely closure and effectiveness.
• Notify suppliers of quality issues, drive supplier reports, verify and assure suppliers’ effective containment actions, root cause analysis, and corrective actions/preventive actions.
• Provide active support during reviews and the supplier selection process.
• Review and critique supplier processes/products.
• Perform on-site process audits at suppliers to verify: suppliers’ permanent corrective actions, evaluate suppliers’ quality systems, verify capacity, process capability, and risk assessments.
• Handle Supplier Quality items in internal audits, customer audits, and site audits.
• Develop and communicate supplier quality performance.
• Define actions in case a supplier is not meeting quality expectations and targets.
• Ensure best practices are adopted within the supply chain.
• Support management by reviewing Key Performance Indicators (KPIs), while checking work and tracking progress.
• Ensure communication and alignment across regions.

Requirements & Tech Stack

• Microsoft Office programs (Outlook, Word, PowerPoint, and Excel)

Qualifications

• A university degree required (i.e. Bachelor's degree) or equivalent relevant work experience.
• Must be a team player able to work in a fast-paced environment with demonstrated ability to handle multiple competing tasks and demands.
• Strong communication skills; oral, written and presentation.
• Strong organization, planning and time management skills to achieve results.
• Strong personal and professional ethical values and integrity.
• Holds self-accountable to achieving goals and standards.
• Strong interpersonal & collaboration skills to work effectively with all levels of the organization including suppliers and/or external customers.