About this role
Job title: Supplier Quality Engineer
About the Role As a Supplier Quality Engineer, you will be responsible for driving supplier quality performance, ensuring incoming material quality, supporting supplier audits, leading corrective actions, and partnering cross-functionally to improve quality, reliability, and compliance. This role works closely with manufacturing, engineering, procurement, and supplier teams to reduce defects, prevent disruptions, and support continuous improvement across the CSBU business.
What You'll Do
- Drive supplier quality performance by monitoring internal and external supplier results and supporting improvement actions.
- Lead supplier assessments, audits, and follow-up activities to strengthen supplier capability and compliance.
- Partner with suppliers and internal teams to investigate defects, nonconformances, and quality disruptions.
- Lead root cause analysis and corrective actions using tools such as 8D, 5 Why, SPC, PFMEA, and Six Sigma methodologies.
- Support incoming quality by defining inspection plans, standards, and expectations for components and materials.
- Collaborate with engineering, production, procurement, and suppliers to resolve quality challenges and reduce component-related disruptions.
- Create and maintain quality documentation to support quality system requirements, audits, and customer expectations.
- Support new product introduction, supplier qualification activities, and customer audit preparation/follow-up.
What We're Looking For
- Basic Qualifications: Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Manufacturing, Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or a related field.
- Experience in quality engineering, supplier quality, manufacturing, or process improvement environments.
- Experience with cable, harnesses, and/or PCBA processes.
- Knowledge of supplier audits, quality systems, root cause analysis, statistical analysis, and SPC.
- Fluent English communication skills.
Nice to Have
- Experience with supplier auditing, including QSA/QPA.
- Knowledge of ISO 9001 quality systems.
- Experience using SAP and quality reporting tools.
- Knowledge of IPC 610/620 standards.
- Experience supporting supplier development, corrective actions, and continuous improvement initiatives.
Compensation & Benefits
- Compensation range is not specified in the posting. Koch states that any compensation range provided is an estimate determined by available market data, and actual amounts may be higher or lower based on candidate’s knowledge, skills, abilities, and geographic location.
- The description includes a general emphasis on a competitive compensation philosophy and an environment that supports work-life balance and continuous improvement.