• Supplier Quality Audit - Visiting vendor facilities and observing the manufacturing environment to review and assess their procedures.

• Reviewing our manufacturing specifications to identify materials needed for production.
• Review and approve vendor quality documentation for First Article Inspections at a minimum. Document Control and Supplier Quality must coordinate to ensure all documents are collected from the supplier.
• Reviewing incoming supplies and products from vendors to check for defects and ensure quality.
• Conducting tests and assessments on products to identify quality issues.
• Maintaining detailed reports on supplier quality, including defect rates and areas that result in flaws.
• Providing technical advice and guidance to suppliers to reduce defect rates.

• Bachelor's degree in engineering
• ASQ certificate preferred
• At least 2 years of experience required in supplier quality preferred

• Approve/confirm Supplier root cause analysis, development of countermeasures and implementation
• Perform data analysis, prioritize top impact issues, and drive supplier characteristic improvement activities
• Oversee and manage complex problem-solving analysis and investigations
• Manage and support communication with suppliers and other departments in regard to countermeasures.

• Approving/disapprove suppliers
• Own Quality hold inventory and its disposition plan
• Facilitate scrap reduction projects with suppliers and internal functions
• Manage supplier relationships as it pertains to quality including
• Some domestic and international travel to the supplier location is required, (Up to 25% of the time, most of which resides in Ohio)
• Experience with Quality Systems (ISO9000, IATF, etc.)
• Philosophy of Lean Manufacturing - Green belt certification preferred
• Structured problem-solving skills to determine root cause, including FMEA, SPC, Control Plans
• Knowledge of statistical sampling and analysis

• Assesses quality performance (or cost-of-quality) using statistical and analytical methods.
• Read and interpret Engineering drawings and technical documentation with understanding of electronic components and printed circuit board assembly processes
• Uses dashboards and metrics to drive on-going commodity performance continuous improvement.
• Creation and implementation of data collection and metrics to ensure products meet or exceed requirements.
• Review supplier manufacturing processes and quality systems.
• Analysis of return materials and warranty information.
• Determine root cause of supplier manufacturing problems and implementing timely, effective, and efficient quality resolutions.
• Verify effectiveness of supplier's corrective actions, validated by data and metrics.
• Maintains professional and technical knowledge by attending educational workshops, reviewing publications, establishing industry networks, benchmarking state-of-the-art practices, maintaining American Society for Quality certification, and/or participating in other professional associations

Equal Opportunity Employer/Protected Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities
The contractor will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor's legal duty to furnish information. 41 CFR 60-1.35(c)