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Supplier Quality Technician (SQT) -1st Shift

BorgWarner
United Statesfull_timeVerifiedPosted 1 Dec 2025

About the role

Provide support in quality of incoming material received from external suppliers

Key Roles & Responsibilities

To perform this job successfully, an individual must have the ability to be able to perform each essential job duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required.  Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Standard Duties:

  • Submit lab work orders of supplied components to be measured in lab and processed in a timely manner.
  • Interprets engineering drawings, schematic diagrams, or formulas and confers with management or engineering staff to determine quality and reliability standards.
  • Utilize SAP to submit purchase requisitions & to confirm inventories.
  • Open new sort projects and aid in creation of work instructions of sorts.
  • Collaborate with 3rd part sort groups to ensure timely product sort, error proofing, clean points, etc. are successfully executed and communicated.
  • Prioritize necessary sorts to support delivery of components to machining/assembly line.
  • Attend daily Material Review Board (MRB) meetings.
  • Create complaints on purchased materials (CPMs) within internal tracking system to ensure timely communication to key stakeholders and escalate if supplier is non-compliant
  • Create debits within BW Internal SPS 
  • Accurate use of handheld gages (i.e. micrometers, calipers, etc.)
  • Responsible for part gathering, obtaining supplier RMA number, sort data, packaging, and shipping components to suppliers.
  • PPAP support
  • Attend daily operations meetings as req’d.
  • Other Clerical, Document creation, minimal technical, and assistant type duties.
  • Audit task performance to standards.
  • Other duties as assigned.
  • Overtime may be required.

Additional Information:

  • Travel is occasionally required, up to 5% of the time.
  • Availability to work an adjusted schedule (9:00 am to 5:30 pm) due to business needs.

 Safety, Health and Physical Requirements:

  • All employees are responsible for knowing, understanding, and complying with the safety policies and procedures. 
  • Stand for long periods of time including during operation of stand-up lifts.
  • Lifting shoulder high up to 35 lbs. repetitively.
  • Ability to work in a fast-paced environment.
  • Wear all PPE (including electrical PPE) as required.
  • Support 5S/Housekeeping activities as required.

Key Competencies

  • Safety
  • Initiative and high sense of urgency
  • Judgement/Decision Making
  • Teamwork/Interpersonal Skills
  • Internal/external Customer Service Orientation
  • Attention to detail and accuracy of work

Education & Experience

Education: High school diploma/GED required. Associate or bachelor’s degree preferred.

Experience: 

  • 1 year experience in automotive manufacturing/battery automotive quality role preferred

  • 6 months of experience in SAP/ERP systems preferred.

  • Familiarity with key performance indicators of a quality department.

  • Proven track record of excellent verbal and written communication.

  • Strong customer service skills.

  • Ability to work independently with minimal supervision.

  • Ability to work overtime as needed.

Mathematical Skills: Ability to add, subtract, multiply, and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals.  Ability to compute rate, ratio, and percent and to draw and interpret bar graphs.

Reasoning Ability: Ability to apply common sense understanding to carry out instructions furnished in written, oral, or diagram form.  Ability to deal with problems involving several concrete variables in standardized situations. Must have great communication and presentation skills.

Computer Skills:  To perform this job successfully, an individual should have knowledge of SAP Inventory software; Excel Spreadsheet software, Word Processing software, PowerPoint Presentations and Word.

EEO Statement

“BorgWarner is an equal employment opportunity employer such that all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, age, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, national origin, disability or protected veteran status.”

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