Supplier Quality Engineer

Essential Duties & Responsibilities

1. The job holder is responsible for operational supplier management. This includes in particular:

• The qualification, monitoring and evaluation of suppliers.
• The responsibility for supplier complaints.
• Acts as a lead supplier auditor.
• Manages supplier audit programs, plans and reports in corresponding systems.
• Maintenance, review and share of relevant risk assessment.
• Leading related investigations of complaints and the technical examination of the results.
• Recording, monitoring and reporting of supplier related KPIs.
• Periodic review of Supplier Management, prepares slides for Quality Management Review.
• CAPA management.
• Participation in supplier development initiatives.
• Furthermore, the job holder supports the departments in questions of quality of source materials. She/He is responsible for reporting to the manager, acts as interface to Global Quality (especially global Supplier Quality Management) and to strategic purchasing in order to help to shape the cross-plant topics related to supplier management.
• Supplier QE is in close contact with QR / Incoming inspection team, involving exchange on daily events, issues, developments and any other topic related to incoming materials.
• Other main job interfaces: Billing & shipping (especially for transportation topic), Purchasing, Quality Release, Technical Customer Support (customer complaints, where the origin is coming from raw material), Warehouse.

2. Continuous improvement process:

• The job holder supports the suppliers and departments within their continuous improvement processes.

3. Investigations:

• The job holder represents the QA expert Investigations. When investigating raw materials, she/he is the interface to the Invest. Team and represents Q interests towards suppliers or global functions.

4. Projects:

• The job holder manages and works on internal / cross-departmental projects in consultation with the supervisor. He / she can also carry out the moderation of topic-related projects or crisis management in the interdisciplinary interfaces. The job holder also initiates and manages improvement projects with suppliers.

5. Risk & Change management:

• The job holder acts as change and risk expert in the field of supplier management, participates on supplier / raw material relevant changes and actively contributing or self-initiates risk assessment in case of need.

Education & Experience Requirements

• Bachelor (BSc) in engineering or nature science field (mechanical, electrical engineer, biology / chemistry, food / pharmaceutical industry or in quality management)
• Minimum 5 years of experience in quality management, including experience with supplier management
• ISO 9001 / 14001 auditor
• GMP, ISO 15378 / 13485 advantage
• Auditing experience
• M365, SAP knowledge
• CAPA & Deviation & Supplier Management

Location        

• Vas county