Supplier Quality Engineer - Automotive Industry

Role purpose:

Ensure that assigned suppliers have the production capacity and industrial capability to deliver parts that meet quality requirements and required volumes. The role involves frequent supplier visits, process assessments and follow-up of action plans to secure production continuity during new product industrialization and series production.

Key responsibilities:

• Production capacity assessment and assurance.
• Assess and validate supplier production capacity against required volumes and identify risks that could affect deliveries.
• Conduct on-site reviews of equipment, processes, cycle times, bottlenecks and production resources to verify available capacity.
• Agree action plans with suppliers to address capacity shortfalls and monitor their implementation and effectiveness.
• Product and process industrialization.
• Monitor supplier readiness for new part launches and ensure that lessons learned from previous projects and current production are incorporated.
• Track tooling and process schedules and contribute to Advanced Product Quality Planning (APQP) and product and process qualification, including on-site supplier assessments.
• Review process deliverables and capacity at relevant project milestones and contribute to part delivery approval with the responsible teams.
• Identify and communicate industrial risks, follow up process issues and escalate concerns that could affect launches or deliveries.
• Assess the impact of product or process changes on supplier industrialization and capacity.
• Monitor part conformity, compliance with control plans and supplier performance in quality, logistics and industrial efficiency.
• Conduct process and quality system assessments and verify the effectiveness of supplier action plans.
• Manage quality incidents and coordinate containment actions to protect customer production, following issues through to resolution and corrective action closure using PDCA.

• Knowledge of Quality, Solving Problem Methods, Lean tools, PFMEA, Statistical Process Control.
• Knowledge of industrialization processes, project management, product design engineering.
• Knowledge of logistic operating modes.
• Knowledge of purchasing and supplier relationship, information confidentiality mastery.
• Leadership capacities, results orientation, demanding.
• Advanced level of English.
• Availability to travel 60% of the time in HU, CZ and SVK.

• Availability to travel 60% of the time in HU, CZ and SVK.