Supplier Quality Engineer

Supplier Quality Engineer role at Outset Medical, Inc.

The Supplier Quality Engineer (SQE) is essential in ensuring and continuously improving the quality of the business supplied materials. They monitor supplier performance and provide regular reports to management, ensuring transparency and accountability. The SQE also helps refine supplier control plans to drive ongoing improvements in quality standards. By collaborating closely with suppliers, they develop and implement strategies to enhance the quality of purchased products across the board. Success in this role requires strong analytical skills, the ability to multitask, and the capacity to manage multiple assignments effectively and on time.

Responsibilities

• Conduct supplier audits and assessments to ensure compliance with quality standards.
• Follow up corrective actions, ensuring the implementation of corrective actions in response to quality issues, while also assessing the adequacy of root cause analysis tools employed to address reported issues.
• Support or execute change orders for process improvements and determine when process stability and capability studies should be performed on existing suppliers.
• Analyzes and performs failure analysis on non-conforming products.
• Review and participate in the component qualifications (PPAP), MSA, and supplier control plans
• Improve and follow up on the supplier’s scorecards.
• Manage qualifications of changes, oversee the qualification process for changes initiated by suppliers and the company, and coordinate associated change control activities to ensure seamless integration and compliance with quality standards.
• Develops and prepares monthly suppliers quality trend analysis and reports.
• Team member in supplier qualification and maintenance process, including audits.
• Good communication and interpersonal skills, such as supplier relationships, internal collaboration, stakeholder management, problem solving, influencing, negotiation, and customer satisfaction.

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