Senior Supplier Quality Staff Engineer in Cheltenham

Hybrid role – at least 3 days onsite per week, Cheltenham.

Salary to be discussed on application plus company bonus, private health care and generous pension scheme.

Designing award‑winning products for our market‑leading brands – Mira Showers, Rada and Recoup – is our lifeblood.

From day one you’ll be part of the Kohler Mira community – a collaborative, forward‑focused team with a shared pride in our work and commitment to delight our customers, develop innovative products and services and inspire our people.

Responsibilities

• Serve as a key design partner within NPD, actively shaping product architecture, materials selection, tolerancing, and interfaces to optimise for quality and manufacturability.
• Build deep, strategic relationships with critical suppliers, developing their capability in manufacturing processes, quality systems and technical problem solving; identify and cultivate new suppliers early in projects when new solutions are required.
• Own Supplier Quality Readiness across multiple programmes, ensuring alignment between product design and manufacturing capability from concept through to production.
• Drive effective application of APQP disciplines, ensuring PFMEAs, control plans and validation activities are technically robust and add real value.
• Lead resolution of complex or high‑impact issues, ensuring structured root cause analysis and sustainable corrective actions.
• Proactively identify risks in product design and supplier processes, addressing them early to avoid downstream impact.
• Provide informal leadership across the organisation, influencing stakeholders and coaching other associates to raise overall capability.
• Lead initiatives to improve supplier performance, internal processes and quality practices across the organisation.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in supplier quality, product quality or manufacturing engineering, ideally within mechanical or electromechanical products.
• A degree in Engineering, Manufacturing, Quality or related discipline, or equivalent knowledge gained through significant relevant experience.
• Proven track record of influencing product design to improve quality and manufacturability.
• Experience working with strategic suppliers, developing long‑term capability and performance.
• Strong understanding of manufacturing processes and materials (plastics, metals, elastomers, electronics).
• Experience supporting new product introduction (NPI) activities.
• Solid grounding in quality methodologies (APQP, PPAP, FMEA, structured problem solving).
• Personal Attributes
• Strong technical judgement and ability to balance detail with system‑level thinking.
• Ability to influence without authority, including senior stakeholders and suppliers.
• Effective prioritisation and ability to manage a high volume of work independently.
• Clear communication and ability to simplify complex topics.
• Proactive and outcome‑focused, with resilience and solutions bias.
• Commitment to coaching and developing others.

Benefits

We offer a competitive total rewards package to support your health and wellbeing, including private health care, generous pension scheme, company bonus and additional perks.

You will have access to career growth and development opportunities, work in a diverse and inclusive workplace and be part of a culture of innovation.

EEO & Diversity

Kohler Mira is committed to diversity and inclusion and, as an equal‑opportunity employer, it is our policy to recruit, hire and promote qualified people in all job classifications without prejudice.

If you, as an individual with a disability, require adjustments during the recruitment process, please contact talentacquisitionuk@kohler. com.

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