Supplier Quality Engineer

Supplier Quality Engineer – Didcot - £45,000 - £50,000 + Benefits

If you’re a Senior Supplier Quality Engineer, or a Supplier Quality Engineer looking for more responsibility and your next career move, then this is for you!

Join our client, a vibrant, growing, established, secure and successful business in Didcot as a Supplier Quality Engineer. Reporting to the Head of Production and Manufacturing, you'll support their business by identifying process improvement and control opportunities within their supply chain.

You'll be building supplier relationships for effective working practices, ensuring that purchase order requirements can be met and maintained. You'll monitor, maintain and improve supplier performance through working with KPI metric data, and will work with suppliers to develop corrective action plans to address any process failings, including the use of quality tools (e.g. 5 Why, 8D etc.).

Supplier Quality Engineer - Role Highlights:

• Supplier Quality Management and Supplier process improvement.
• Evaluate and process reports from suppliers in line with ISO9001.
• Set and maintain PO notes and incoming inspection criteria on all purchased goods.
• Support goods inwards and purchasing.
• Collect and evaluate supplier quality data.
• Work with supplier directly to create, manage and close corrective action plans, addressing process failures.
• Process and product audits within the supply chain to address failures and perform regular timescale related audits.
• Perform source inspections on supplier sites when necessary.
• Review and update Corrective Action Reports (CAR).
• Visit suppliers and assist in supplier audits.
• Supplier & Plant Quality: Lead the improvement of supplier relationships and quality processes, ensure component compliance, and drive corrective actions.
• Continuous Improvement: Champion root cause analysis, manage non-conformance reporting, and develop supplier processes to prevent recurrence and reduce costs.