The advanced supplier quality engineer manages the apqp for external suppliers with the support of the program buyer and the d&d product/product design. Oversees developing supplier qcd performance for a defined list of suppliers. He/she supports the series buyers to organize and follow-up the quality systems and performance of critical suppliers.
Responsibilities
apqp management during development phases:
deploy apqp related to the development phase of purchased parts.
Define the risk and suppliers to be followed.
Insure that suppliers sourced respect mandatory rules and audit criteria.
Get feasibility commitment sign off for sourcing and for change implementation.
Define supplier apqp plan with objectives, risk assessment, critical suppliers, critical parts, key milestones, deliverables, r@r and ppap planning, resources & supports needs.
Update every month the supplier apqp plan.
Participate at design review meeting and ecr meeting.
Facilitate exchanges between functions and suppliers for design freeze convergence.
Escalate alerts to program and management. Support suppliers for 8d completion.
Train the suppliers and make sure that the defined standards are properly applied (apqp elements),
follow the apqp progress with status report.
Use of lessons learned from prior programs, as input to snc
manage the process qualification at supplier (control plan & quality basics implementation).
Conduct fpt & mpt run@rate and process audit for high and medium risk components.
Get from suppliers their control record (i.e: raw material certification…) for all parts.
Ppap construction:
responsible for ppap construction and new parts approval during development phase.
Coordinate with sqa production trial runs on new parts during development phase
ensure that 100% of s/r parts will be validated at gr3.
Transition to series:
ensure that all documentations are updated.
100% of s/r characteristics secured.
Ensure that incoming inspection instructions integrate control means according supplier’s control
qualifications
minimum education level: bachelor degree in engineering
experience
minimum 3 years experience in industry in lean manufacturing
nice to have
quality experience and / or production experience
and / or production experience
skills and competencies
project management methodology
quality basics
production system efficiency knowledge
supplier audit process
quality & productivity management
process knowledge
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