Supplier Quality Development Engineer
Date: Nov 8, 2019
Location: Southbridge, MA, US
Company: SCHOTT AG
International technology group • specialty glasses and glass-ceramics • more than 130 years experience • more than 15,500 employees in 33 countries • innovative ideas for the world of tomorrow
Supplier Quality Development Engineer*
Our Business Unit Lighting and Imaging offers challenging lighting and image transmission solutions for applications in the markets of automotive, aviation, medical devices, as well as industrial and safety engineering. With production units in Europe, North-America and the worldwide SCHOTT sales organization Lighting and Imaging is a leading supplier for fiber optic components.
- Provides the technical resources to maintain and improve both the process and product quality for all suppliers.
- Oversees the program for supplier qualification, development, audit and corrective action, and incoming inspection.
- Provides the resources to both develop measurement systems for components and final product, but with a primary focus on components.
- Functions as a backup to the Quality Engineers / Specialists for direct customer support.
- Oversees incoming inspection area & QA department technicians.
- Works with Suppliers and others internally to resolve unclear/conflicting specifications and correlate measurements.
- Communicates with suppliers on quality matters, interfaces with suppliers during audits and visits.
- Manages the supplier audit and supplier corrective action processes.
- Evaluates suppliers process and capabilities to aid in procurement of custom and off the shelf components.
- Collaborates with suppliers to further develop capabilities, coaches on lean strategies to minimize exposure to non-conforming product
- Works with a wide variety of gages, instruments, and inspection devices including manual / hand measurement tools, CMM, vision / optical inspection systems.
- Backs up Quality Engineers / Specialists to provide direct customer support for quotation and contract re-view, customer complaints, product failure analysis, process and product audits, new product development, first article, in process and final inspection.
- Documents departmental and work procedures.
- Assists in the training of production associates and suppliers in methods and procedures.
- Identifies problem root causes in cooperation with suppliers, purchasing, Engineering, R&D, and Manufacturing.
- Supports the Mexico plant on supplier and customer quality issues.
- Bachelor’s Degree in Optical, Mechanical, Industrial, Chemical, or Electrical Engineering.
- 2+ years’ related experience in a manufacturing environment.
- 5+ years’ related experience in an optical manufacturing environment, with a focus on Quality, preferred.
- Working knowledge of print and specification interpretation.
- Hands on experience measuring with various gages and tools, including automated measurement equipment.
- Ability to design custom measurement equipment.
- Working knowledge of SPC, Design of Experiments, Gage Design, and Gage Repeatability and Reproducibility Studies.
- Experience in product and process audits. Experience in following / maintaining an ISO 9001, 13485, AS9100 Quality Management System
- Effective communication skills: listening, writing, speaking and oral presentations.
- Willing to work with others on a team.
- Self-motivated and results orientated.
- Motivated and committed employees are essential to the success of our company. At SCHOTT, you will find a cooperative and dynamic work environment which encourages you to share your innovative ideas, supports your development and celebrates achieving successes with your team.
- You can expect interesting tasks and challenging projects, as well as motivated and friendly teams in fields that influence our future.
SCHOTT North America, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer (M/F/Vet/Disability).
Nearest Major Market: Worcester
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