Supplier Quality Engineer

The Supplier Quality Engineer (SQE) ensures that AGSE vendors/suppliers maintain consistency in quality standards, compliance to ISO:9001 standards, customer specific requirements, and regulatory requirements. This is achieved by managing a robust supplier quality system that includes supplier onboarding, monitoring, auditing, development, and corrective actions that enforce supplier accountability, and foster continuous improvement with a strong supplier relationship. Results will be evident through reduced number of supplier related nonconformances.

• Collaborate with Engineering and Supply Chain/Buyers on supplier selection, qualification, and development.
• Ensure technical and quality requirements are effectively communicated to suppliers via purchase order flow down, procurement codes, and ERP system information.
• Build strong supplier relationships to align on expectations, standards, and improvement goals.
• Conduct onboarding and surveillance audits, both on-site and remote, to ensure compliance to ISO 9001 standards and AGSE-specific requirements.
• Conduct source inspections, both on-site and remote, to ensure product compliance to AGSE purchase order flow down requirements.
• Monitor and report supplier performance using scorecards and key quality metrics.
• Manage supplier nonconformance (NCMRs), deviation requests, and concession approvals.
• Lead and/or facilitate root cause and corrective action (RCCA) activities for supplier issues using common analysis tools such as 8D, 5-Why, and Ishikawa.
• Oversee and/or perform First Article Inspections (FAIs) per AS9102 or AGSE-specific requirements.
• Assess and validate special processes that require additional certifications (e.g., welding, plating, heat treating) for compliance in accordance with applicable industry accreditation standards such as NADCAP certifications and AWS Welding certifications.
• Provide quality guidance to suppliers, including reviews of PPAPs, PFMEAs, and Control Plans.
• Support New Product Development (NPD) and Introduction (NPI) to ensure supplier readiness from prototype through production.
• Participate in internal and external audits, including ISO, customer, and regulatory bodies.
• Promote continuous improvement and lean practices within AGSE and its supplier base.

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Quality, or related technical discipline.
• Minimum 7 years in Quality Engineering, preferably in aerospace, manufacturing, or defense.
• Minimum 3 years in a Supplier Quality Engineering role.
• Minimum 3 years working in a manufacturing environment that specializes in complex machined components, 3D CAD modeling, and structural welding.
• In-depth knowledge of ISO 9001 and/or AS9100 standards.
• Proficient in FAIRs (AS9102), PPAP, APQP, and SPC.
• Proficient with GD&T fundamentals and application, and engineering drawing interpretation.
• Working knowledge of inspection tools and technologies (CMMs, PCMMs, Romer/Faro Arms).
• Strong analytical, communication, and documentation skills.
• Proficiency with ERP/MRP systems.
• Willing and able to travel domestically and internationally to supplier sites, maintaining flexibility in scheduling and assignments. This role may involve travel for up to an estimated 40% of working time.
• Familiarity with NADCAP and special process audits.
• Preferred: CQE, Six Sigma, or ISO Lead Auditor certification.

While performing the duties of this job, employees are regularly required to sit, walk and stand; talk or hear, both in person and by telephone; use hands repetitively to finger, handle, feel or operate standard office equipment; reach with hands and arms; and lift up to 25 pounds.

Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, and the ability to adjust focus.

The work environment characteristics described here represent those employee encounters while performing this job's essential functions. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential functions.

Employees work under typical office or warehouse conditions, and the noise level is usually quiet to moderate. However, in certain assignments, an employee may work near moving equipment and be exposed to toxic or caustic chemicals, biological hazards, airborne fumes, outdoor weather conditions, and loud, prolonged noise.