Job overview:
The Supply Quality Engineer is responsible for ensuring that all incoming materials and components from suppliers meet quality standards and specifications, while also actively engaging in supplier collaboration and qualification to enhance overall supply chain quality. Additionally, the role involves fostering customer satisfaction, driving impact in sustainability, contributes to the supplier strategy and leveraging digital tools to optimize quality processes.
Mission
- Identify day-to-day non-quality factors, conduct, or have other departments conduct in-depth analyses and monitor quality improvement plans at suppliers.
- Identify potential issues before they occur and implement preventive solutions.
- Lead quality issue resolution through containment, correction and prevention steps and check effectiveness of suppliers' actions.
- Conduct process audits at suppliers and launch improvement action plans to help them develop their quality performance.
- Follow and act as per Corporate Schneider Supplier Quality Management (SSQM) guideline applying Schneider Performance System (SPS) card 9A (Supplier Quality) requirements.
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Key responsibilities
- Pilot Part/Product Qualification Process and manage Supplier performance at the level of the plant (Outside Group and Inside Group suppliers)
- Manage the sustainability recovery of his plant panel of suppliers.
- Actively apply and is involved in Supplier Qualification Process.
- Processing supplier non-conformities in a timely manner, to ensure no impact on production line.
Main Activities:
- Pilot the containment, corrective and preventives actions to solve the technical part quality issues of the plant using the 8D methodology
- Address gaps and noncompliance to the suppliers and check the effectiveness of the supplier actions.
- Manage supplier roadblocks with Supplier and with the support of the Regional Supplier Quality Developer (RSQD), Plant Procurement Manager (PPM), Schneider Supplier Leader (SSL), when needed (Plant Supman/Quality review meeting)
- Pilot the qualification of the part through the Production Part Approval Process (PPAP) within the Optimize process.
- Participate actively to the APQP/PPAP with Offer LifeCycle Management (OLM) specifically during the responsibility transfer hand-over.
- Enforce the incoming inspection according to Procedure ProQ_GL06 and manage the incoming inspection dynamic rules (when applicable in the organization structure)
- Monitor supplier quality performance at the plant level, reports it and manage Most impacting Quality Suppliers actions (Plant Supman/Quality review meeting)
- Level 0 and level 1 - lead 8D (PRB evaluation), Temporary Quality Wall implementation
- Level 2 - Contribute with RSQD to SE Process audit, pFMEA evaluation.
- Manage the Supplier Qualification status and SE property tool status in a partnership with Tooling & Technology experts.
- Lead the End to End PPAP flow, ensuring PSW signed before mass production
- Manage Suppliers derogations in Supplier Process Change Notification (SPCN) animation when plant is impacted.
- Be the Data-Owner of Quality Domain (QCO) managing all data (creation, update, and deletion) to support the Quality Processes on the several used tools (SAP and any Domain/local tools), when applicable.
- Can also be Key-User of the Quality Domain (QCO) with, in particular, a good knowledge on dynamization rules for inspection process (parts & incoming inspection).
Skills and Qualifications:
- Hands-on experience in a Supplier Quality role
- Working knowledge of Microsoft Office Suite
- Quality improvement tools, techniques & models
- SE Procurement and Quality Systems related to Supplier Quality Management
- Statistical quality techniques and analysis
- ERP system
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