Supplier & New Market Quality Manager

About Wolverine Advanced Materials

Wolverine Advanced Materials produces and sells performance-critical, specialty elastomer-coated metals used in gaskets for automotive & industrial applications; automotive brake noise insulators and NVH (noise, vibration & harshness) damping solutions for automotive.

Wolverine employs approximately 600 people worldwide and has manufacturing operations in Virginia, Florida, Germany, and China, as well as sales & technical offices in Michigan, Germany, Japan, China, Brazil, and India.

Wolverine Advanced Materials, an entity of Center Rock Capital, is a leading developer and manufacturer of high-performance materials. Our core competency is in performance-critical, specialty elastomer–coated metals that offer damping and seal-ability solutions in the automotive and gasket industries.

Center Rock Capital is a company where they see potential where others may not look; and as a team we can find the right solution to the right challenge.

For more information, visit centerrockcp.com or wamglobal.com.

About the role·        

• Manage incoming supplier quality for current products across all U.S. Wolverine Advanced Materials (WAM) facilities.
• Support global WAM facilities on supplier quality initiatives, including supplier development, performance improvement, and issue resolution.
• Collaborate with Supply Chain and Technology teams to ensure new products have clearly defined requirements, specifications, and quality standards.
• Drive supplier quality improvements to strengthen consistency, reliability, and compliance with WAM expectations.
• Support new market expansion by ensuring customer and supplier quality requirements are met for both existing and new products.
• Partner with cross-functional teams to proactively address quality risks and enable smooth product launches in new markets
• This position is located on site in Blacksburg, VA. (no remote work).

·       What you'll do

Ensure current WAM suppliers are meeting required and established standards by:

• Ensure suppliers are following to policies and procedures, operational guidelines related to established quality management system. (ISO/TS 16949).
• Drive supplier management through effective facilitation of supplier corrective actions, supplier certification, nonconforming material review and failure analysis and participation in the Quality Review Team (QRT).
• Create supplier audit schedule and participating in audits which are conducted on a scheduled basis, record action items, and ensure timely follow up. 
• Lead implementation and monitoring supplier scorecards.  Work with Purchasing on key metrics and ensure supplier’s expectations are clearly communicated.
• Establish a cadence with Purchasing for review of Supplier Concerns.
• Evaluate and verify proper root-cause analysis and effectiveness of corrective actions;
• Assist in developing best practices (standard inspection procedures, work instructions, quality test methods and policies).

Supplier Development / Improvement

• Work with suppliers on effective development of Process Maps, PFEMA’s, and Control Plans. 
• Participate in working with the supplier; develop improvement plans including dated action plans.
• Collaborate with suppliers to ensure successful PPAP (Production Part Approval Process) completion, including reviewing submitted packages, providing guidance on deficiencies, and securing timely approvals

New Products

• Work with APQP teams, (Operations, Supply Chain and Technology) to determine the critical specifications of a new purchased product.  Ensure that the proper tests are in place at the supplier to meet the specification and that material certifications clearly communicate specifications and results to the plants.  
• Participate in process audits at the supplier when new purchased product is being produced, record action items and ensure timely follow up.
• Lead new produ