Senior Supplier Quality Engineer
As Senior Supplier Quality Engineer, I drove the supplier qualification process and ensures supplier base is fully qualified and compliant. Schedules, monitors and approves supplier parts and service qualification activities; responsible for improving supplier quality, delivery, and lead-time. I have held multifaceted responsibilities like planning and conducting, ensuring, supplier assessment including reporting and findings for major and minor opportunities for improvements and verifies effective closure of assessment findings by the supplier, developing and supporting suppliers to achieve ongoing conformance with organizations requirements and continual improvements in quality.I have monitored and reported supplier performance (KPIs -SPE, OTD) quality issues and identified development action accordingly organizations quality metrics, developed and managed projects, identified for New Product development and Supplier Improvement (Supply chain improvement projects include supplier risk mitigation, regionalization and/or cost containment), and made recommendation on supplier inclusion to personnel handling commercials (Sourcing Engineer, Commodity Manager, Supply Chain Manager) after assessing robustness of supplier’s systems.I have also lead design / technical review prior to bidding / post award to give clarity to supplier on critical dimensions, performance parameters, material specification, method of measurement etc. to enable them to supply products with reliable and consistent quality and tracked performance of suppliers under development through Gated process; identify Supplier training needs and Conduct training and conduct process audit at supplier’s end and drove continuous improvement and participate in Supplier Business reviews.