Role: Supplier Quality Engineer
Location: Warwick
Duration: Rolling 6 month contract
Rate: 35 p/hr PAYE
Rullion is working alongside a leading manufacturer of Aeroderivative Gas Turbines based in Warwick. Our client is in search of a contractor to join their team on a rolling contract. This is a hybrid position with approximately 2 days a week on site, along with supplier visits across the UK and into Europe.
The Role
Perform supplier qualification, product/process qualification, and supplier development to provide a global, demand-covering, quality-assured, and cost-effective supply base for the components within a certain commodity.
Introduce, maintain, and improve the Supplier Quality Management System, implementing and tracking measures and activities to ensure the requested quality of the supplied components and services.
Responsibilities
1. Contain, manage, and resolve quality issues relating to supplier non-conforming components.
2. Provide supplier quality performance data to ensure a meaningful supplier performance evaluation.
3. Interact with customer-facing businesses to investigate potential product non-conformance.
4. Lead supplier root cause investigations and corrective actions through the problem resolution process.
5. Conduct improvement projects to enhance quality and delivery performance.
6. Investigate and resolve manufacturing capability issues within the supply chain to ensure business continuity.
7. Lead component validation following the product and process qualification process, managing risks.
8. Identify and support cost reduction opportunities through interaction with the supply chain/strategy.
9. Audit existing and potential suppliers to determine the capability of manufacturing and ensure quality systems are in place. Develop supplier capability to meet current and future requirements.
10. Lead and/or facilitate improvement projects to address problems and improve supplier performance by applying appropriate LEAN/Quality improvement tools.
11. Train and coach suppliers to improve aspects of their business performance.
12. Lead product validation through the PPQ process.
Shared Responsibility:
* Participate in quality meetings with suppliers.
* Drive reactive supplier quality improvements and escalate when needed according to SQM policy.
* Collaborate in supplier development programs.
* Actively contribute to continuous improvements within the areas of responsibility.
* Support SQM reporting.
Experience
* Turbine manufacturing experience - ideally knowledge of blades and vanes.
* Mechanical or metallurgical industrial experience.
* PPAP/PPQ/FAI knowledge.
* QMS & EHS (ISO and OHSAS or equivalent).
* Lean & Six Sigma tools.
If you are interested in being considered for this position, please send your CV today!
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