Supplier Quality Engineer

TO APPLY: Email resume to 3502198-cs-50240@rehrig.apply.clrco.com

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Here at Rehrig Pacific, we are all about our people. Since 1913, our organization has focused on sustainable supply chain solutions while creating a culture and atmosphere where amazing people, like you, are celebrated for doing their best work. Rehrig Pacific has grown to meet the needs of our industry consumers across the country and internationally. We are constantly creating innovative solutions to transcend the new standards set forth by our customers. We find true fulfillment in helping others, both within the Rehrig Pacific family and in our communities. As servant leaders, we lead by example.

The Supplier Quality Engineer manages all product quality related activities with Rehrig Pacific Company’s suppliers to continuously improve quality and reduce the risk of disruptions to Rehrig Pacific Company’s operations and customers. The Supplier Quality Engineer advances the supplier quality program to ensure its effectiveness of meeting internal stakeholder needs. With cross-functional partners in Procurement and Design, the Supplier Quality Engineer evaluates suppliers for potential partnership and develops selected suppliers to meet quality expectations. The Supplier Quality Engineer uses advanced quality planning techniques to drive supplier understanding, control and delivery of Rehrig Pacific Company’s quality expectations during NPD and approved production. They use formalized processes to routinely evaluate supplier quality, assess and mitigate potential quality risks. The Supplier Quality Engineer drives supplier accountability by initiating and leading corrective actions and recovering costs.

Areas of accountability

Advances Rehrig Pacific Company’s supplier quality program – Develops and leads the processes that properly vet supplier capabilities, align supply chain partners to critical requirements and expectations, measures supplier performance, and ultimately ensures the consistency of the products and components being sourced by Rehrig Pacific Company.

• Develops and leads processes to identify, collect and specify supplier quality expectations in a standardized and scalable format. Communicates the requirements to suppliers.
• Identifies the supplier quality management processes needed to meet Rehrig expectations and leads their development, training and implementation.
• Provides training and awareness within Rehrig to promote internal conformance with our supplier quality program.
• Continuously reviews and improves the efficiency and effectiveness of the supplier quality program, ensuring Rehrig Pacific’s stakeholders are satisfied and future needs are accounted for.

Leads all quality aspects of supplier selection and onboarding – Collaborates with internal stakeholders to understand critical-to-quality (CTQ) product aspects and uses them to define supplier requirements and needed capabilities. Works with cross-functional partners to properly vet, select and onboard suppliers.

• Works with internal stakeholders (Procurement and Design) to develop and document the list of supplier capabilities needed to fulfill product quality expectations.
• Evaluates suppliers’ manufacturing processes, quality systems, and supporting quality processes as inputs to determine suitability for partnership.
• Works directly with supplier(s) involved in new product launches to develop, validate and implement quality plans through prototype and production builds.

Aligns suppliers to quality deliverables and expectations – Through advanced production and quality planning techniques, aligns suppliers to critical deliverables, ensures manufacturing readiness and the consistent supply of products and components.

• Defines quality deliverables within the early stages of Rehrig Pacific’s New Product Development (NPD) process in alignment with stakeholders.
• Guides suppliers to successful completion of product and project deliverables during the NPD process by leading training exercises and overseeing supplier progress.
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