Sr. Supplier Quality Engineer (Valley, NE)*

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Sr. Supplier Quality Engineer (Valley, NE)*

Collaborate with Innovative 3Mers Around the World

Choosing where to start and grow your career has a major impact on your professional and personal life, so it’s equally important you know that the company that you choose to work at, and its leaders, will support and guide you. With a diversity of people, global locations, technologies and products, 3M is a place where you can collaborate with other curious, creative 3Mers.

This position provides an opportunity to transition from other private, public, government or military experience to a 3M career.

The Impact You’ll Make in this Role

The person hired for this opportunity will be responsible for the management and optimization of supplier management activities for the plant and will drive quality improvements for our outsourcing locations.

As a Sr. Supplier Quality Engineer, you will have the opportunity to tap into your curiosity and collaborate with some of the most innovative and diverse people around the world. Here, you will make an impact by:

• Managing and initiating supplier risk assessment –  working with division to determine risks, risk mitigation plans, and continual monitoring of critical plant suppliers
• Managing Measurement of Supplier Performance – conducting regular reviews of supplier quality and relationship performance, create supplier metrics/KPIs.
• Supplier Quality Continual Improvement – managing supplier impact on 3M and associated performance (lean flow, quality impact, & cost).
• Performing Supplier Audits and Managing Supplier Nonconformance - addressing technical problems with suppliers, creating and managing effective supplier feedback and complaint process to driving continuous improvement.
• Improving Outsourced Material Quality – managing specifications and compliance by outsource vendors to provide safe, consistent, predictable products for our customers.
• Other duties as assigned.

Your Skills and Expertise 

To set you up for success in this role from day one, 3M requires (at a minimum) the following qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree or higher (completed and verified prior to start)
• Two (2) years of combined quality and/or manufacturing experience in a private, public, government, or military environment

Additional qualifications that could help you succeed even further in this role include:

• Bachelor's degree or higher in a science or engineering discipline from an accredited institution
• Minimum of three (3) years combined quality and/or manufacturing experience
• Minimum of one (1) year of supplier management experience
• Experience deploying industry specific quality system requirements beyond ISO9001 (e.g. NIOSH, CSA, ANSI etc.)
• Working knowledge of IT solutions for Quality (CFR, eMatrix, QDS, ISM, SAP, etc.)
• Experience leading internal and external audit or certified internal auditor ISO9001
• ASQ certification
• Excellent attention to detail and process/system oriented
• Self-motivated with proven ability to apply innovative solutions to problems
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Experience with TQRDC Assessments
• Effective in conducting root cause analysis
• Lean Six Sigma experience, leading Green Belt or Black Belt projects
• Strong written and verbal communication skills

Location: Valley, NE

Travel:  May include up to 15% domestic/international

Relocation: May be authorized

Must be legally authorized to work in country of employment without sponsorship for employment visa status (e.g., H1B status).

Responsibilities of this position may include direct and/or indirect physical or logical access to information, systems, technologies subjected to the regulations/compliance with U.S. Export Control Laws.
 
U.S. Export Control laws and U.S. Government Department of Defense contracts and sub-contracts impose certain restrictions on companies and their ability to share export-controlled and other technology and services with certain "non-U.S. persons" (persons who are not U.S. citizens or nationals, lawful permanent residents of the U.S., refugees, "Temporary Residents" (granted Amnesty or Special Agricultural Worker provisions), or persons granted asylum (but excluding persons in nonimmigrant status such as H-1B, L-1, F-1, etc.) or non-U.S. citizens.
 
To comply with these laws, and in conjunction with the review of candid