OEMs Business- Supplier Quality Assurance

You will drive supplier selection by conducting robust qualification processes. You will assess the capabilities of new and existing suppliers to ensure they can meet product, cost, quality, capacity, and fulfillment requirements. It will be your responsibility to drive improvements using Lean methodologies, supplier scorecards, and supplier audits. You will focus on ensuring supplier compliance, driving systematic problem-solving, and implementing process improvement plans to deliver value. Monitoring supplier performance indicators and rankings will also be part of your duties to help suppliers consistently meet or exceed expectations. Developing positive relationships with the QA team, managing engineering and design changes, capacity studies, new product introductions, and transfers will be crucial. You will also lead investigations of major problems and special projects, fostering relationships with suppliers and the supply chain for product development and parts procurement. Additionally, you will contribute to continuous improvement activities and ensure compliance with APQP/PPAP & Run at Rate, Safe Launch at the supplier. In this role, you will provide technical expertise to customers and licensees to resolve technical issues related to product supply and test facilities. Supplier training and relationship management will also be key responsibilities. Your experience in quality, manufacturing, and project management will be valuable, along with your ability to develop and implement vendor qualification processes. You should be proficient in augmenting procedures, formats, SQA manuals, and have strong skills in report and procedure writing with excellent presentation abilities. Understanding manufacturing processes such as air conditioner manufacturing, plastic molding, stamping, and tubes will be beneficial. Strong analytical skills and field failure analysis capabilities are also required for this role.,