Supplier Quality Engineer

Overview

FXI is a leading manufacturer of polyurethane foam, delivering a wide range of comfort solutions to the Bedding, Furniture, and Transportation industries. We are pioneers in the "Mattress in a Box" market, leveraging a "molecules to doorstep" model that combines cutting-edge innovation, large-scale production, and extensive distribution to serve both our own brands and other industry leaders. With our corporate headquarters, and multiple manufacturing locations across North America—including our growing site in Cuautitlán—FXI has built a culture defined by innovation, collaboration, and excellence. Our technologies are found in countless everyday applications—everywhere comfort is needed, FXI leads the way.

We’re looking for passionate, driven individuals to join our high-performing, value-focused culture. What are you waiting for?

Position Summary

Supplier Quality Engineer (SQE)

At FXI, our Supplier Quality Engineers play a key role in ensuring our suppliers deliver products right the first time. This position drives supplier performance by partnering on quality systems, process improvements, and risk prevention from the very start of manufacturing. You’ll collaborate with suppliers to implement best practices, eliminate defects and waste, and support sourcing, production, and development initiatives. If you’re passionate about building strong partnerships, solving problems at the root cause, and ensuring world-class quality, this role offers the opportunity to make a direct impact on FXI’s success.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Work with Procurement & Product Development Teams, long w / FXI manufacturing locations to define process parameters and criteria [Critical to Quality (CTQ) features] to ensure supplier process capability is effective to meet FXI product, process, or service requirements.
• Lead assessment, due-diligence, communication, and mitigation of supplier risk for assigned area of supply.
• Support establishing long-term strategic supplier development plans to facilitate product / service roadmaps and risk prevention strategies.
• Lead cross-functional teams in the qualification of suppliers of critical new programs, through assessment of the suppliers’ manufacturing capability to fabricate and deliver our products / services. These assessments would be around the framework related to ISO QMS audits.
• Lead supplier development projects that gauge supplier process capability, reduce variation, improve capability, availability, and performance.
• Utilize advanced quality practices and tools to analyze risks and systemic issues and improve supplier quality.
• Perform supplier overall capability assessments and audits related to quality systems, process controls, and manufacturing capabilities.
• Measure, monitor, and improve supplier performance, reduce variation / waste, and Cost of Poor Quality.
• Manage the implementation and execution of supplier corrective action / preventive action plans.
• Lead problem solving and root cause analysis activities with suppliers.
• Mentor and guide Supplier Quality Engineers and Project Engineers in capability assessments and audits related to quality systems, process controls, and manufacturing capabilities.
• Assure suppliers maintain a robust change management to ensure flawless implementation of process changes.
• Assist suppliers with the understanding and execution of FXI’s supplier quality manual expectations.
• Produce well-written technical reports, develop, and make presentations for internal FXI management and plant teams.
• Undertake special projects as required.

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Additional Information

This position is Hybrid - Remote and will require commuting to a designated office in Mexico City, w / 50% travel to N.A. Suppliers and FXI locations.

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