We are seeking a Senior Supplier Quality Engineer to help strengthen our supplier quality systems and ensure the highest standards of compliance, reliability, and performance across our global supply base. In this role, you will partner with suppliers and cross-functional teams to proactively identify risks, resolve quality issues, and drive continuous improvement.
Responsibilities:
- Monitor the performance of suppliers on a continuous basis and escalates any potential issues to supplier quality management.
- Supports the completion of supplier risk assessments and updates supplier quality database accordingly.
- Ensures supplier quality database is updated timely with any new information/addition, and ensures its accuracy, i.e. Supplier evaluation criteria are maintained, and supplier files are current.
- Compiles metrics for Supplier Quality Systems for internal stakeholders, tier boards and Quality System Management Review.
- Communicates supplier quality-related risks to LifeCell’s business to management.
- Supports internal/regulatory audits on supplier quality related requests.
- Manages supplier nonconformity process, which includes but not limited to:
- Ensures all supplier related NCRs are processed/closed timely.
- Communicates supplier NCRs/SCARs to suppliers and necessary follow-up action are performed and documented timely per procedure requirements.
- Obtains necessary documentation required from supplier to support material release at LifeCell.
- Coordinates the review/approval of supplier NCRs/SCARs.
- Works with suppliers to ensure supplier investigations and CAPAs are robust and will drive to root cause.
- Ensures all supplier change notification records are created timely in Global TrackWise, and notifications for shared suppliers are communicated to Corporate Supplier management group timely.
- Assigns assessment actions to SMEs and works with cross functional SMEs and suppliers to complete the assessments timely.
- Provides feedback to suppliers in regard to change notifications and ensures necessary follow-up actions are completed as required.
- Follows up to ensure required internal changes resulted from supplier change notification are implemented timely.
- Coordinates the review/approval of supplier change notifications, ensures its timely closure and communicates the assessment result to suppliers as needed.
- Supports the team on completing supplier audits as required per process requirements.