
Supplier Quality Engineer
- Wales
- £24.55 per hour
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Create and co-ordinate cross-functional (engineering, project management, quality, supply chain, materials, design & manufacture) supplier facing project plan including supplier elements.
- Adopt a collaborative, data-driven approach to target supply chain interventions to ensure new technology projects deliver on-time, to cost and required quality. Able and willing to use/learn common continuous improvement and problem solving tools and techniques.
- Ensure Customer requirements are clear and acceptable for flow down to the supply chain.
- Define and agree clear objectives with the supply chain.
- Support the wider procurement team by applying BAE Systems Land UK processes to the assessment of supply chain options, and identification of capability gaps.
- Apply Advanced Product Quality Planning tools and techniques to supplier related change projects (new sources of supply, amendments to existing sources of supply, new product introduction) including but not limited to: Technical Review, FAIR, Process Control Planning, PFMEA, review of supply chain quality plans.
- Support the design and implementation of appropriate supplier development solutions (processes, tools and techniques) adopting best practice where necessary to address supplier capability gaps and ensure the supply chain can meet Land UK requirements.
- Provide coaching to the supply chain in relevant tools and techniques e.g. APQP, to support supplier development and support the transfer of best practice across the supply chain
- Lead supplier relationship improvement activities to improve collaborative working, improve trust and lines of communication.
- Proactively engage across Land UK functions and with the wider BAE Systems business in the delivery of new technology programmes.
- Ideally looking for a Supplier Quality Engineer/Quality Assurance Engineer.
- Supply Chain Management
- APQP principles
- Application of APQP Tools
- Interpretation of Engineering drawings and other technical documentation
- Experience with improvement and recovery programmes