Rubicon Consulting is currently recruiting for a Lead Supplier Quality Engineer on a 12 month Contract, based in Lisburn, Northern Ireland.
This role is Inside IR35.
Essential Functions/Responsibilities
* Manage all Supplier Quality activities at multiple sites to drive supplier qualification, process control, continuous improvement, and issue resolution activities.
* Establish a structured approach to identify and improve quality assurance gaps as related to client quality processes and procedures.
* Drive continuous improvement activities at Suppliers to include product quality, cycle, and delivery performance through use of standard metrics, Six Sigma, Lean Six Sigma, and SPC methodology.
* Drive COQ and DPMO reduction activities for supply base and establish process to ensure best practices and top suppliers are leveraged across entire team.
* Drive all SQE-related activities within new product introduction (NPI) process to understand design intent and technical requirements and to ensure SQE NPI deliverables on Supplier and Part qualification are accurate and delivered on time.
* Drive supplier and sub-supplier performance to include identifying and driving supplier process improvements, root cause analysis, and corrective action/ preventive action.
* Establish program to identify, monitor, and improve supplier process capabilities for identified CTQs/CTPs to include conducting regular design and drawing reviews with the client an...