Senior Supplier Quality Engineer
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Partner with development, manufacturing, supply chain, and quality teams to qualify suppliers and monitor performance at Nextern.
Salary
Not provided
Location
Maple Grove, United States
Employment type
Full time
Workplace
Not provided
Senior Supplier Quality Engineer
Maple Grove, United States
Job description
About the role
At Nextern, we inspire with passion, impact with significance, and act with integrity. Nextern partners with OEMs, clinicians, and innovators to design, develop, and manufacture medical devices across the full product lifecycle. This role partners with development, manufacturing, supply chain, and quality teams to assess, onboard, and qualify new material and component suppliers and monitor continued supplier performance. The supplier quality engineer is the primary liaison to Nextern suppliers for communication about supplied material quality, change notifications, performance assessments and audits, and resulting actions.
All engineering functions are responsible for compliance with the Quality System and relevant regulations and standards, continuous improvement, and professional interaction with Nextern customers as needed.
Responsibilities
- Partner with development and supply chain teams to initiate new suppliers and monitor existing suppliers.
- Assess purchased material and supplier characteristics to determine supplier categorization.
- Initiate, populate, and maintain supplier files to ensure traceable supplier control.
- Ensure supplier and supplied part documentation meets business and program requirements.
- Receive, initiate, and assess supplier change notifications, coordinating with subject matter experts as necessary.
- Initiate Supplier Corrective Action Requests (SCARs) and assign ownership.
- Coordinate and execute material and component testing, as applicable, to support material qualification.
- Define and establish monitoring requirements and plans for receiving inspection and supplier data.
- Compile, analyze, and present supplier-specific performance metrics for project design and management reviews.
Key facts
- Partners with teams to assess, onboard, and qualify new material and component suppliers.
- Monitors continued supplier performance.
- Acts as the primary liaison to Nextern suppliers on supplied material quality and related actions.
Frequently asked questions
What does this role involve?
It partners with development, manufacturing, supply chain, and quality teams to qualify suppliers and monitor supplier performance.
What are the supplier quality engineer's responsibilities?
Responsibilities include supplier documentation, change notifications, corrective action requests, material and component testing, and supplier performance metrics.
How does the role work with suppliers?
The supplier quality engineer is the primary liaison to Nextern suppliers for communication about supplied material quality, change notifications, performance assessments and audits, and resulting actions.