Supplier Quality Engineer IV

Key Responsibilities

• Leads the supplier technical audit process, evaluates supplier performance and capabilities, and drives continuous improvement opportunities at the supplier site.
• Leads quality problem resolutions and incident management, drive root cause and correction action. Identifies and drives broad-based systemic supplier resolutions at the process level.
• Perform Supplier qualification of new and existing suppliers.
• Utilize enterprise-wide software to adjudicate and document quality issues, specifically, Containment, Root Cause, Corrective Action, and Corrective Action Verification.
• Help train suppliers, engage in process audits, and promote sound testing methodologies using corporate compliances and industry standards for guidance.
• Support in developing, documenting, and executing the worldwide Applied's Quality Management System and industry-standard documentation as reference material.

• Interprets internal/external business challenges and recommends best practices to improve products, processes or services.

• May lead functional teams or projects with moderate resource requirements, risk, and/or complexity.

• Leads others to solve complex problems; uses sophisticated analytical thought to exercise judgment and identify innovative solutions.

• Impacts the achievement of customer, operational, project or service objectives; work is guided by functional policies.

• Communicates difficult concepts and negotiates with others to adopt a different point of view.