Supplier Quality Engineer - Senior

Supplier Quality Engineer - Senior

Description

We are looking for a talented Senior Supplier Quality Engineer to join our ACCELERA Site, Guadalajara (Spain).

Work model: 100% onsite Guadalajara, driver's license and high level of English required.

In this role, you will make an impact in some of the following ways:

• The Senior Supplier Quality Engineer utilizes strong quality and technical skills to develop suppliers and products that can meet customer requirements; requires strong partnerships with the external supply base, with supply chain teams and with engineering to achieve results.
• Build strong relationships with all critical partners to improve quality and business outcomes, including external suppliers, external customers, and internal customers and stakeholders, such as Purchasing, Manufacturing and Engineering.
• Support the cross-functional supplier selection process for any given component.
• Collaborates with external suppliers to validate that the manufacturing process is designed in a manner that enables conformance to the engineering print, engineering standards and customer specific requirements.
• Apply industry common Advanced Product Quality Planning (APQP) processes, Automotive Industry Action Group (AIAG) tools, and Cummins specialty tools to develop zero defect components within the external supply base.
• Embrace continuous improvement in the external supply base by contributing to product and process focused projects that utilize industry proven methodologies, such as lean and six-sigma.
• Conduct external supplier audits in support of supplier risk mitigation, supplier readiness, and supplier performance improvement.
• Support quality improvement plans within the external supply base in order to improve supplier performance.
• Ensure resolution of external supplier related quality challenges, by leading root cause analysis, by supporting development of corrective actions and by verifying the effectiveness of corrective actions.

• Support and Develop SQE processes and procedures.
• Experience with various problem-solving techniques (8D, Ishikawa, 5 why, etc.)
• Knowledge of Hydrogen product would be preferred.
• Experience with Key codes and standards for this organisation, such as ASME, PED and oxygen cleaning, would be preferred.
• Welding experience would be preferred.
• Being collaborative, innovative and adaptable with the technology maturity.
• Cummins VPI Experience or New product introduction externally.
• A valid driving license.
• Very high level of English ( C1 Cambridge equivalent ).