Senior Supplier Quality Engineer

POSITION PURPOSE

To lead our Supplier Quality Engineers efforts and develop the company suppliers and suppliers processes to prevent defects, and improve the quality of our parts, processes and products.  Responsible for helping Purchasing and our other internal customers meet their objectives in acquiring high quality material (parts, sub-systems, outsourced products, etc.) from our suppliers meeting our Engineering requirements. 

 SUPERVISESSupervises other Quality and Supplier Quality Engineers and ensures that our processes are being followed and that our objectives and goals are being met.

 RESPONSIBILITY LEVEL

Under general supervision, plans, conducts and supervises assignments.  Reviews progress and evaluates results. Plans and assigns personnel for given projects or tasks. Recommends changes in procedures. Operates with substantial latitude for unreviewed action or decision. Reviews progress with management. Provide leadership and guidance to other Supplier Quality Engineers.  

 PRINCIPAL ACCOUNTABILITIES

1.  Perform supplier audits, assessments, and sources inspections and is responsible to help Zebra assess if suppliers should be approved and or require corrective action.

2.  Improve material quality, ensure proper drawings, and communicate supplier requirements.

3.  Updates supplier?s records with results of visits to and from suppliers.

4.  Responsible for ensuring that Quality Conducts and Chairs our MRB reviews (In-process-WIP and incoming) and initiation of proper corrective action and effective supplier feedback.

5.  Develop supplier processes through process and product and or tooling validations and provide assistance, conduct supplier review meetings and supplier training.

6.  Responsible for the First Article approval of parts, subsystems and products.

7.  Use statistical process control and capability studies in assessing supplier processes and capabilities. 

8.  Develop our supplier materials and processes to increase the number of parts that are Dock-to-Stock.  Must lead this effort and increase the number of parts dock to stock to meet our company goals.

9.  Create Material Inspection Instructions (MII?s) to support Receiving Inspection and align the inspections methods between our suppliers and our company.

10. Provide our suppliers effective feedback and work with them constructively to improve their performance levels.

11. Ensure we support Manufacturing Quality and provide them direction and instruction directions on how to inspect materials, subsystems or products.

12. Supply Manufacturing with timely investigations into supplier in-process quality issues.

13. Have Supplier Quality Engineering representation in our improvement team and contribute to our teams success.

14. Conduct internal audits on company processes.

15. Perform Failure Analysis and inspection techniques on supplier materials.

16. As the Team Leader for Quality/Supplier Quality Engineering provide the direction, and mentoring to help them improve their performance levels at Zebra.

17. Writing and revising policies, procedures and creating forms to support our supplier development processes.

18. Work closely with other Zebra facilities as a Team and be apart of the overall Supplier Quality efforts by sharing resources and responsibilities across sites for we achieve the overall objectives related to supplier development for Zebra.

19. Some travel may be required.

20. Other duties as assigned. QUALIFICATIONS

? Four year Technical Degree or 5 ? 8 years equivalent work experience in electro/mechanical engineering.

? Must be able to teach suppliers SPC, problem solving, Mistake-Proofing and inspection techniques.

? Must know ANSI-Y14.5, Geometric Dimension and Tolerance.

? ASQ Certified Quality Engineer and Quality Auditor preferred.

? 6 Sigma Black Belt preferred.