Supplier Quality Specialist (R6419)

About the role

Our Supply Chain team strengthens supplier performance and protects production by overseeing supplier quality worldwide, assessing risk through supplier evaluations and internal reviews, leading failure investigations, and supporting proactive source qualification.

In this role, you will own day-to-day supplier quality execution, bringing discipline and responsiveness to issue management while enabling engineering teams to focus on high-priority technical challenges and preventive improvements. You will work across production and suppliers with internal stakeholders to contain defects quickly, resolve nonconformances, and implement corrective and preventive actions that minimize disruption to engineering and production.

What you'll do

• Own supplier-related nonconformances identified at supplier facilities, during receiving and precision inspection, and throughout production, including Supplier Deviation Requests (SDRs).
• Manage nonconformance workflows, including Material Review Board (MRB) dispositions, Return to Vendor (RTV) activities, supplier Corrective and Preventive Action (CAPA), and production issue ticket reviews.
• Drive open issues toward resolution, coordinating containment, investigation, disposition, and corrective action with suppliers and internal teams.
• Coordinate containment of nonconforming material by locating affected products, partnering with Supplier Development Engineers to mitigate flight risk, and supporting root cause investigations.

Required qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or 5+ years of experience in an engineering, supply chain, manufacturing or quality field,
• Bachelor's degree in engineering or supply chain
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, able to liaise cross functionally, internally and externally, make presentations to team members and management
• Strong understanding of manufacturing processes and technical requirements
• Deep technical domain experience in PCBA manufacturing and Rework
• Qualified to IPC J-STD-001, IPC-A-610, IPC 7711/7721
• Experience reading engineering drawings, including Geometric Dimension and Tolerance (GD&T)
• Experience with AS9100 or similar quality management system standard.
• Knowledge of supplier quality processes (Part or Supplier Approval Processes, First Article Inspection Reports, etc.)
• Direct experience interfacing with suppliers, corrective/ preventive action systems, supplier portals
• Proficiency in MS Office applications
• Proficiency with lean concepts and statistical and data analytics

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• Full-time regular employee offer package: Pay within range listed + Bonus + Benefits + Equity

Temporary employee offer package

Pay within range listed above + temporary benefits package (applicable after 60 days of employment)

Salary compensation is influenced by a wide array of factors including but not limited to skill set, level of experience, licenses and certifications, and specific work location. All offers are contingent on a cleared background and possible reference check. Military fellows and part-time employees are not eligible for benefits. Please speak to your talent acquisition representative for more information.