Supplier Quality Engineer

Job Summary:

Supports Engineers in carrying out production-related and inspection jobs; assists in monitor materials quality in processing plants and making the required adjustments; ensures maintenance of documentation and records. Works under minimal supervision.

Key Responsibilities:

• Participate as a team member in the supplier evaluation, selection, and strategic sourcing processes.
• Assist in supplier corrective action processes, including fault tree analysis, root cause analysis, and implementing permanent corrective actions.
• Support suppliers in utilizing quality tools, especially the Production Part Approval Process (PPAP), ensuring compliance with the Cummins Supplier Handbook.
• Review supplier quality resources for new product introductions and existing products to mitigate supplier-related issues and enhance process capabilities.
• Collaborate with suppliers on continuous improvement initiatives aimed at defect reduction.
• Manage end-to-end VPI / VPC project supplier quality deliverables through M0-M6 / V0_V6 gates.
• Lead and coordinate multiple VPI/VPC projects involving various suppliers and stakeholders, ensuring alignment on project scopes and quality deliverables.
• Utilize statistical tools and methods to assess supplier performance and drive improvement actions.
• Represent Cummins in technical interfaces with the external supply chain, ensuring product quality meets Cummins standards.

Key Competencies:

• Action oriented - Taking on new opportunities and tough challenges with a sense of urgency, high energy, and enthusiasm. 
• Collaborates - Building partnerships and working collaboratively with others to meet shared objectives. 
• Communicates effectively - Developing and delivering multi-mode communications that convey a clear understanding of the unique needs of different audiences. 
• Customer focus - Building strong customer relationships and delivering customer-centric solutions. 
• Decision quality - Making good and timely decisions that keep the organization moving forward. 
• Manages conflict - Handling conflict situations effectively, with a minimum of noise. 
• Resourcefulness - Securing and deploying resources effectively and efficiently. 
• Measurement Science - Analyzes measurement processes throughout the relevant traceability chain to identify and quantify sources of measurement uncertainty relevant to the appropriate applied measurement science, Metrology” e.g. Chemical, Dimensional, Electrical, Mechanical, Optical and Radiation and Physical. 
• Quality Process Management - Proficient application of quality tools and methods (e.g. APQP, FMEA, PPAP, SPC, Capability studies, Process Audit, inspection, test, etc.) to ensure quality of products, processes and services. 
• Values differences - Recognizing the value that different perspectives and cultures bring to an organization. 
• Laboratory Management   - Leads technical resources while managing the business aspects of a laboratory using measure to control both the technical and business aspects of the organization and assuring the requirements of the appropriate certifications and/or accreditations are met.