At a Glance
- Tasks: Champion supplier development and resolve quality issues in a dynamic engineering environment.
- Company: Join a leading automotive and heavy industrial company with a focus on innovation.
- Benefits: Enjoy a flexible, almost fully remote role with competitive pay and growth opportunities.
- Other info: Collaborate with global teams and enhance your problem-solving skills in a supportive culture.
- Why this job: Make a real impact by ensuring top-notch quality in the supply chain.
- Qualifications: Experience in Supplier Quality Engineering and knowledge of APQP/PPAP processes required.
The predicted salary is between 41 - 41 £ per hour.
This is an almost fully remote role for a 6-12 Month Contract in the Engineering & Advanced Manufacturing sector (Automotive / Heavy Industrial).
We are seeking a Supplier Quality Engineer to champion our supplier development, APQP/PPAP processes, and cross-functional engineering partnerships across our Europe region (focusing on Global 7 Activities). Sitting at the critical intersection of Purchasing, Manufacturing, and Engineering, you will play a vital role in preventing quality issues before they happen and solving them instantly when they do.
The Role: As our Supplier Quality Engineer, you will combine your technical problem-solving skills with a partner-first mindset to elevate our supply base. Your day-to-day will split between proactive engineering planning and high-impact, hands-on quality resolution.
Key Responsibilities:
- Work seamlessly with VPI program leads to issue APQP projects to suppliers.
- Manage monthly metrics, update the tracker, and lead formal performance reviews.
- Act as the first line of defense for build quality issues.
- Collaborate with internal quality leads to investigate emerging issues, establish immediate containment/sorting fixes, and align with suppliers on long-term resolution.
- Own quality FIRGs (steps 3–7) and drive robust root-cause analyses to closure in the RV&S system.
- Conduct thorough supplier audits to mitigate supply chain risks, evaluate supplier readiness, and establish structured performance improvement plans.
- Partner with suppliers to validate that their manufacturing processes are structurally capable of perfectly aligning with engineering prints, industry standards, and customer specs.
Skillset & Experience Required:
- Proven experience in a Supplier Quality Engineering or similar quality manufacturing environment.
- Deep, practical knowledge of industry-standard automotive/industrial quality frameworks: APQP, PPAP, and AIAG tools.
- Strong competency in leading structured problem-solving, root-cause analyses, and corrective action implementations.
- Ability to act as a trusted technical bridge between external suppliers and internal purchasing/engineering teams.
- Proficiency in tracking and generating technical quality reporting metrics.
Desirable:
- Experience working within global frameworks or supporting the European region.
- A background utilizing Lean and Six-Sigma continuous improvement methodologies.
- Familiarity with internal tracking tools like CQMS and RV&S systems.
