Supplier Quality Engineer
Role Overview
The Supplier Quality Engineer plays a critical role in ensuring the quality, reliability, and continuous improvement of materials, components, and assemblies sourced from our global supply base.
This position is responsible for developing and maintaining strong supplier partnerships while ensuring that products supplied to Armstrong consistently meet engineering specifications, quality requirements, and regulatory standards.
The successful candidate will work closely with suppliers and cross-functional teams including Engineering, Supply Chain, Manufacturing, and Quality to drive supplier performance, resolve quality issues, support new product introductions, and implement effective corrective and preventive actions.
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Key Responsibilities
- Evaluate, qualify, and develop suppliers to ensure compliance with Armstrong quality requirements and industry standards.
- Conduct supplier audits, process assessments, and performance reviews to identify risks and opportunities for improvement.
- Lead supplier corrective action processes, including root cause analysis, containment activities, and verification of corrective action effectiveness.
- Support new product development and supplier qualification activities, including APQP, PPAP, FAI, and process validation activities as applicable.
- Collaborate with Engineering and Supply Chain teams to ensure supplied components meet design, manufacturing, and performance requirements.
- Review and disposition supplier-related non-conformance reports and coordinate resolution activities.
- Analyze supplier quality data and performance metrics to drive continuous improvement initiatives.
- Support incoming inspection requirements and help reduce supplier-related quality defects impacting manufacturing operations.
- Participate in supplier selection, risk assessments, and sourcing decisions from a quality perspective.
- Facilitate problem-solving activities with suppliers to improve process capability, product quality, and delivery performance.
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Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in engineering, preferably Mechanical Engineering. Higher education levels like master’s degree and Ph.D. in Engineering will be considered as a strong asset.
- Quality Control experience, education, or diploma is considered as a strong asset.
- Minimum of 3 years of experience in engineering environment.
- Strong problem solving and root-cause analysis skills.
- Good understanding of inspection processes by using of standard lab instruments and even more importantly GO – NO GO and functional gauges. This includes a good understanding of each measuring instrument’s strengths and limitations.
- Working experience and fundamental comprehension of Quality Systems ISO 9001 ISO 14001, ASME HI and FIRE pump listings (FM, UL, LPC).
- Ability to design array of Go – No Go and functional gauges by using Solid Works, identify the best suppliers and purchase them while keeping in mind their functionality and cost.
- Ability to independently create complete engineering drawings for parts and assemblies as well as interpret engineering drawings done by others, review them and assess their soundness especially in dimensional and geometric tolerancing (GD&T).
- Strong sense of urgency in a time-sensitive working environment.
- Great team-oriented attitude, while capable of working independently and being able to be a strong leader.
- Strong verbal and written communication in English, while fluency in 3 or more world’s dominant languages (including but not limited to English, French, Portuguese, Spanish, German etc.) will be considered as a strong asset.
- Extensive independent, global and local travel experience for both business and pleasure will be considered as an asset.
- This role is not eligible for visa sponsorship
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