Supplier Quality Engineer

About the Role

Siemens Mobility is seeking a Supplier Quality Engineer to ensure the delivery quality of purchased parts throughout the product life cycle.

Key Responsibilities

• Independently assure the delivery quality of purchased parts over the product life cycle.
• Identify and sustainably eliminate supplier-caused quality problems (e.g., through root cause analyses).
• Implement pre-assessments and supplier audits according to VDA 6.3 and Siemens IRIS-based specifications.
• Conduct fault tree and value stream analyses at the supplier, derive measures, and monitor their implementation.
• Support initial sample testing for product and manufacturing/testing process release.
• Plan, prepare, and implement Product on Trial Run and preventive inspections.
• Create and implement a risk and supplier protection concept based on risk-based supplier selection.
• Ensure product and process development realization within the scope of ramp-up safeguards at suppliers, utilizing methods like APQP.
• Ensure the implementation of railway industry standards (DIN EN50155, DIN EN50657, ISO_IEC_27000, TSI2014-1300-EU, etc.).
• Accompany supplier risk assessments from a quality perspective.
• Calculate support expenses for suppliers to implement sourcing decisions in cross-functional sourcing teams.
• Work in strategy and project teams.

Requirements & Tech Stack

• Experience with procurement and technical planning processes.
• Experience with quality management and project management.
• Familiarity with IT tools and methods such as SAP, MS Office Suite.
• Experience with lessons learned methods, LEAN, 5S.
• Experience with the requirements of quality systems (ISO 9001, IRIS and similar).
• Experience in the application of quality methods and analysis tools such as APQP, 8D, FMEA, Root-Cause Analysis in manufacturing or product development processes.
• Fluent in spoken and written English.
• Willingness for frequent travel activities (approx. 60-80%) at home and abroad.

Qualifications

• Completed master's degree in engineering, or technical training with further training to become a state-certified technician specializing in mechanical or electrical engineering, coupled with many years of professional experience.
• Many years of professional experience in a technology-related function (e.g., quality assurance / quality-related supplier management, supplier/product/process qualification (MQCP)), ideally in the environment of rail vehicles.
• Certified IRIS and/or VDA 6.3 Lead Auditor.
• Confident appearance towards suppliers and internal organization.
• Ability to work independently, analytically, and in a structured manner.