Supplier Quality Engineer
Current• Work within the company policies and customer guidelines to manage the quality assurance aspects of raw material items and testing. • Responsible for the application of Customer and FWM quality requirements to the supply base. • Serve as a resource to supervisors, manufacturing engineers, operations, and the Inspection-Team for problem identification, resolution, loss reporting and continuous improvement. • Coordinate work flow through the assigned Inspection department(s) to perform in the most efficient way. • Review and revise raw material specifications in accordance with customer expectations, FWM’s needs, and industry standards.• Interact with Operations, Engineering, Continuous Improvement, Sales, Supply Chain, and Quality departments to facilitate projects and resolve issues.• Conduct supplier audits of the raw materials suppliers to the applicable standard. • Identify and monitor formal corrective actions for the suppliers resulting from non-compliance to the requirement or agreements. • Act as a resource in resolving customer issues. • Ensure compliance to International Organization for Standardization (ISO), Good Manufacturing Practice (GMP), Food and Drug Administration (FDA), and customer quality requirements and standards.• Responsible for initiating, processed and verifying all requests to qualifying and approving new supplier and maintaining the company’s approved supplier list. • Support manufacturing floor and personnel by providing guidance and expert wire material acumen based on knowledge of raw material.
