SUPPLY CHAIN QUALITY ENG

Job Details

Job Location

Vernon Hills - Vernon Hills, IL

Salary Range

$80,000.00 - $98,000.00 Salary/year

Job Shift

First

Description

Are you dedicated to quality and supplier standards? Do you enjoy working with suppliers and conducting audits? Scotsman Ice is looking for a Supply Chain Quality Engineer to work with our suppliers and manufacturing facility to drive product quality and opperational efficiency across the network. We are dedicated to providing our employees with many different benefits:

• Included benefits:
• Employee life insurance and AD&D
• Short term and long term disability
• Company HSA contribution for HDHP
• Employee assistance program
• Financial wellness services through Truist Momentum
• Travel assistance through Lincoln TravelConnect
• 10 paid holidays
• Accrued Paid time off
• 5 prorated sick days
• Tuition Assistance
• Participation in annual performance based bonuses
• Voluntary benefit offerings:
• Medical insurance through Blue Cross Blue Shield
• PPO and HDHP with HSA through Health Equity
• Prescription benefits through Express Scripts
• Dental insurance through Delta Dental
• Vision benefits through VSP
• Medical and dependent care flexible spending accounts through Flores
• Additional voluntary life insurance and AD&D, including dependent coverage
• Supplemental plans through UNUM- Critical illness, accident insurance, hospital indemnity
• Group legal coverage and identity theft protection through Legal Shield
• 401k program with a company match
  

Applicants must be authorized to work for ANY employer in the U.S. We are unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment Visa at this time.

Job Title

Supply Chain Quality Engineer

Function

Quality

Reports to

Vice President of Purchasing

Supervises

N/A

Mission

Under general direction of the VP of Purchasing, this position is responsible for working with suppliers to resolve quality issues, improve process reliability, repeatability, and controls. Partner with internal and external stakeholders. Be proactive on supplier quality and management activities.

Principle Activities

• Lead supplier approval and qualification of new/revised items which includes Production Part Approval Process (PPAP), Review of First Article Submissions, correlation with supplier’s methods, supplier audits, management of supplier corrective and preventative action (40%)
• Lead or facilitate Root Cause Analysis events for high impact internal and customer quality issues that drive breakthrough improvements in product quality and business processes (20%)
• Lead or assist in the development and maintenance of procedures, standard work, mistake proofing and other associated process controls (10%)
• Evaluation and analysis of supplier quality data. Project management of supplier quality initiatives (15%)
• Support New Product Development Team’s Quality Processes (FMEA, Test Plans, Reliability, etc.) (10%)
• Perform other job related duties as assigned (5%)
  
  

Financial/Risk Control

• Fulfill the financial control and risk management responsibilities inherent in the position.
• Conduct yourself in accordance with the Company code of ethics policy at all times.
  
  

Qualifications

Required Education/ Certification

• BS Degree in Engineering, Statistics, or pertinent technical field
• 5 or more years experience in a manufacturing or assembly environment in a Quality Engineering, Manufacturing Engineering, or Continuous Improvement role
  
  

Required Experience

• 3 or more years experience in Supply Chain activities
• Six Sigma experience preferred
  
  

Knowledge, Skills And Abilities

• Project management skills with emphasis on process improvement.
• Ability to analyze technical data and make presentations to support project or supplier objectives.
• Proven ability to generate successful outcomes when working with internal and external contacts
• Ability to originate and develop complex ideas in new and undefined ways
• Ability to direct a team and manage relationships
• Skilled at planning own and others work to meet defined project plans and objectives
• Working knowledge of ISO9001
• Advanced proficiency with MS Office suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint).
  
  

Physical Requirements

• Ability to travel 35% to 50% of the time
• Ability to conduct activities involving digital dexterity 10%, standing 25%, sitting 75%, reaching/grasping 1%, writing 5%, typing 25%, walking 15%, kneeling/squatting/bending 3%
• Use written sources of information 50% of the time; e.g., read reports, procedural documentation, reference materials, etc.