What are the responsibilities and job description for the Supplier Quality Engineer position at Dover Motion?
Position Summary
The Supplier Quality Engineer is a critical role within the organization, working alongside our Operations and Engineering Teams. The Supplier Quality Engineer is the primary contact for supplier quality issues and is responsible for driving supplier performance management through scorecards, coordinating audits or surveys of suppliers, and supplier containment/corrective actions. Analytical and problem-solving skills as well as solid time-management, organizational, and multitasking skills are essential.
Responsibilities
Required Skills/Experience:
About Dover Motion
We are revolutionizing the way things move! Our stages and motion control solutions provide quantum leaps in flexibility, precision, efficiency and reliability to applications as diverse as medical instruments, metrology and factory automation. Our breadth of products and brands are unmatched. Dover Motion is a subsidiary of Fortive (NYSE: FTV). Dover Motion’s relationship with Fortive allows its associates access to competitive benefits, extensive training, and exciting development opportunities.
Applicants to and employees of this company are protected under Federal law from discrimination on several bases. To learn more, please visit www.dovermotion.com/about-us/careers/.
About Fortive
Fortive is a diversified industrial growth company, with a $6B portfolio of market-leading brands. We develop and deliver essential technology for the people who create, implement and accelerate progress. And we achieve this through our people. Our globally diverse team of 24,000 employees is united by a common culture rooted in Fortive Business System (FBS). Exceptional people thrive at Fortive because we build extraordinary teams for extraordinary results. We recruit, develop and retain the best talent available. We shape the future. We innovate to fuel our customers’ success, building better businesses and propelling progress. We are driven to do better. We emphasize continuous improvement and nonstop learning. We are team oriented. We work together, and we win together. We create an environment based on integrity and action, not politics and bureaucracy.
At Fortive, you can build a career in a way no other company can duplicate. Our brands allow us to offer dynamic careers across multiple industries. We need the most talented people to keep progressing. Here you’ll learn how FBS is used to shape strategy, focus execution, align our people, and create value for customers and shareholders. Come join our winning team.
Fortive Corporation Overview
Fortive’s essential technology makes the world stronger, safer, and smarter. We accelerate transformation across a broad range of applications including environmental, health and safety compliance, industrial condition monitoring, next-generation product design, and healthcare safety solutions.
We are a global industrial technology innovator with a startup spirit. Our forward-looking companies lead the way in software-powered workflow solutions, data-driven intelligence, AI-powered automation, and other disruptive technologies. We’re a force for progress, working alongside our customers and partners to solve challenges on a global scale, from workplace safety in the most demanding conditions to groundbreaking sustainability solutions.
We are a diverse team 17,000 strong, united by a dynamic, inclusive culture and energized by limitless learning and growth. We use the proven Fortive Business System (FBS) to accelerate our positive impact.
At Fortive, we believe in you. We believe in your potential—your ability to learn, grow, and make a difference.
At Fortive, we believe in us. We believe in the power of people working together to solve problems no one could solve alone.
At Fortive, we believe in growth. We’re honest about what’s working and what isn’t, and we never stop improving and innovating.
Fortive: For you, for us, for growth.
About Dover Motion
Dover Motion, Inc. is a subsidiary of Fortive Corporation and we are revolutionizing the way things move. We partner with life science and diagnostics leaders around the world to co-create lifesaving technologies in healthcare that millions rely on every day. Our stages and electronic motion control bring quantum leaps in throughput, precision, efficiency, and reliability for microscopy and factory automation applications. Dover Motion’s relationship with Fortive allows its employees access to competitive benefits, extensive training, and exciting development opportunities. To learn more about any of the above, please visit http://www.dovermotion.com/about-us/careers
Dover Motion, Inc. is a subsidiary of Fortive Corporation and we are revolutionizing the way things move. We partner with life science and diagnostics leaders around the world to co-create lifesaving technologies in healthcare that millions rely on every day. Our stages and electronic motion control bring quantum leaps in throughput, precision, efficiency, and reliability for microscopy and factory automation applications. Dover Motion’s relationship with Fortive allows its employees access to competitive benefits, extensive training, and exciting development opportunities. To learn more about any of the above, please visit http://www.dovermotion.com/about-us/careers
The Supplier Quality Engineer is a critical role within the organization, working alongside our Operations and Engineering Teams. The Supplier Quality Engineer is the primary contact for supplier quality issues and is responsible for driving supplier performance management through scorecards, coordinating audits or surveys of suppliers, and supplier containment/corrective actions. Analytical and problem-solving skills as well as solid time-management, organizational, and multitasking skills are essential.
Responsibilities
- Work with suppliers to refine and enhance products and processes by applying continuous improvement methodology and lean manufacturing principles to assure quality of good and services provided.
- Coordinate with Supply Chain to conduct audits of new and existing suppliers to ensure compliance with company standards and regulatory requirements.
- Lead cross functional discussions with Operation, Supply Chain, and engineering on supplier related quality concerns affecting production.
- Work with Supply Chain to drive improvement of supplier performance by implementing a scorecard that measures quality, delivery, and cost.
- Develop and maintain supplier quality metrics and report supplier quality performance.
- Assist Supply Chain in developing and executing processes to effectively qualify new suppliers and support exiting risky suppliers.
- Support the validation and approval of supplier FAIs.
- Provide documentation of root cause and corrective actions for customer complaints involving supplier nonconformances.
- Issue SCARs as appropriate and work with the supplier to drive corrective actions.
- Ensure compliance to ISO 9001:2015 standards for supplier and purchasing controls.
Required Skills/Experience:
- Three to five years related experience of equivalent combination of education and experience.
- Detailed working knowledge of PPAP and associated process documentation, including but not limited to FMEA, Control Plans, Process Capabilities, Gage R&R
- Must be detail oriented, well organized, and able to prioritize multiple projects
- Demonstrated knowledge of corrective actions and problem-solving techniques
- Kaizen and/or Lean Manufacturing experience
- Familiarity with ISO 9001:2015
- Must have excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Strong proficiency with Microsoft Office tools
- Bachelor of Science (B.S.) degree in a technical discipline; Engineering discipline from a four-year University preferred.
About Dover Motion
We are revolutionizing the way things move! Our stages and motion control solutions provide quantum leaps in flexibility, precision, efficiency and reliability to applications as diverse as medical instruments, metrology and factory automation. Our breadth of products and brands are unmatched. Dover Motion is a subsidiary of Fortive (NYSE: FTV). Dover Motion’s relationship with Fortive allows its associates access to competitive benefits, extensive training, and exciting development opportunities.
Applicants to and employees of this company are protected under Federal law from discrimination on several bases. To learn more, please visit www.dovermotion.com/about-us/careers/.
About Fortive
Fortive is a diversified industrial growth company, with a $6B portfolio of market-leading brands. We develop and deliver essential technology for the people who create, implement and accelerate progress. And we achieve this through our people. Our globally diverse team of 24,000 employees is united by a common culture rooted in Fortive Business System (FBS). Exceptional people thrive at Fortive because we build extraordinary teams for extraordinary results. We recruit, develop and retain the best talent available. We shape the future. We innovate to fuel our customers’ success, building better businesses and propelling progress. We are driven to do better. We emphasize continuous improvement and nonstop learning. We are team oriented. We work together, and we win together. We create an environment based on integrity and action, not politics and bureaucracy.
At Fortive, you can build a career in a way no other company can duplicate. Our brands allow us to offer dynamic careers across multiple industries. We need the most talented people to keep progressing. Here you’ll learn how FBS is used to shape strategy, focus execution, align our people, and create value for customers and shareholders. Come join our winning team.
Fortive Corporation Overview
Fortive’s essential technology makes the world stronger, safer, and smarter. We accelerate transformation across a broad range of applications including environmental, health and safety compliance, industrial condition monitoring, next-generation product design, and healthcare safety solutions.
We are a global industrial technology innovator with a startup spirit. Our forward-looking companies lead the way in software-powered workflow solutions, data-driven intelligence, AI-powered automation, and other disruptive technologies. We’re a force for progress, working alongside our customers and partners to solve challenges on a global scale, from workplace safety in the most demanding conditions to groundbreaking sustainability solutions.
We are a diverse team 17,000 strong, united by a dynamic, inclusive culture and energized by limitless learning and growth. We use the proven Fortive Business System (FBS) to accelerate our positive impact.
At Fortive, we believe in you. We believe in your potential—your ability to learn, grow, and make a difference.
At Fortive, we believe in us. We believe in the power of people working together to solve problems no one could solve alone.
At Fortive, we believe in growth. We’re honest about what’s working and what isn’t, and we never stop improving and innovating.
Fortive: For you, for us, for growth.
About Dover Motion
Dover Motion, Inc. is a subsidiary of Fortive Corporation and we are revolutionizing the way things move. We partner with life science and diagnostics leaders around the world to co-create lifesaving technologies in healthcare that millions rely on every day. Our stages and electronic motion control bring quantum leaps in throughput, precision, efficiency, and reliability for microscopy and factory automation applications. Dover Motion’s relationship with Fortive allows its employees access to competitive benefits, extensive training, and exciting development opportunities. To learn more about any of the above, please visit http://www.dovermotion.com/about-us/careers
Dover Motion, Inc. is a subsidiary of Fortive Corporation and we are revolutionizing the way things move. We partner with life science and diagnostics leaders around the world to co-create lifesaving technologies in healthcare that millions rely on every day. Our stages and electronic motion control bring quantum leaps in throughput, precision, efficiency, and reliability for microscopy and factory automation applications. Dover Motion’s relationship with Fortive allows its employees access to competitive benefits, extensive training, and exciting development opportunities. To learn more about any of the above, please visit http://www.dovermotion.com/about-us/careers
