About this role
Responsibilities
Supplier Selection and Auditing:
- Lead supplier selection during design and development phases
- Develop and prioritize auditing schedules to ensure regular supplier audits
- Act as the supplier quality representative on design and development teams
- Conduct Supplier Scorecard reviews to assess suppliers' ability to meet quality, delivery, and service targets
- Conduct supplier audits and ensure timely closure of corrective actions
Cost Saving Projects and Project Management:
- Take an active role in Cost Saving projects to achieve best value for the company
- Assign proper resources to support all projects and ensure the performance of supplier is sufficient to achieve saving goals while aligning the same direction with long term supplier strategies with category managers
- Serve as the key interface between suppliers and internal stakeholders for all issues to meet the project schedule with focus on qualification process and requirements
Compliance and Improvement:
- Audit and evaluate suppliers' internal processes for compliance with organizational, customer, and regulatory requirements
- Maintain regular contact and communication with suppliers, including site visits
- Ensure suppliers develop effective corrective actions for quality and delivery problems
- Support product transfers to contract manufacturing sites and participate in developing required Quality Plans and protocols
Performance Monitoring:
- Monitor and report on operational performance at both the subcontract and individual supplier levels.
- Track supplier performance on schedule and quality metrics
- Hold periodic meetings with the plant based Supplier Quality Manager and Category Managers to hold supplier accountable for quality improvement
- Ensure proper control plans are in place for changes in parts and supplier processes
- Ensure effectiveness of supplier root cause analysis and corrective actions
QUALIFICATIONS
Education:
- Bachelor’s degree in Engineering.
Experience:
- 15+ years of experience in Supplier Quality Engineering.
- 5+ years managerial experience or/and quality management in leading supplier quality teams, quality system management or project managements.
- Willingness to travel domestically up to 60%;
Technical Skills:
- Hands-on exposure to quality system requirements of AS9100 or ISO 9001.
- Understanding of basic quality tools such as PFA, PPAP, Process capability, FMEAs, and control plans.
- Extensive knowledge of machining or metal processing techniques.
- Proven success in the use and mentoring of Problem-Solving methods, Root Cause analysis and Statistical decision-making including application knowledge of Minitab.
- Strong analytical skills with the ability to thoroughly analyze, interpret data / information to make sound informed decisions.
Certifications, preferred:
- Certified ASQ Quality Engineer
- Six Sigma Green Belt or higher
About Regal Rexnord
Regal Rexnord is a publicly held global industrial manufacturer with 30,000 associates around the world who help create a better tomorrow by providing sustainable solutions that power, transmit and control motion. The Company’s electric motors and air moving subsystems provide the power to create motion. A portfolio of highly engineered power transmission components and subsystems efficiently transmits motion to power industrial applications. The Company’s automation offering, comprised of controls, actuators, drives, and precision motors, controls motion in applications ranging from factory automation to precision control in surgical tools.
The Company’s end markets benefit from meaningful secular demand tailwinds, and include factory automation, food & beverage, aerospace, medical, data center, warehouse, alternative energy, residential and commercial buildings, general industrial, construction, metals and mining, and agriculture.
Regal Rexnord is comprised of three operating segments: Industrial Powertrain Solutions, Power Efficiency Solutions, and Automation & Motion Control. Regal Rexnord has offices and manufacturing, sales and service facilities worldwide. For more information, including a copy of our Sustainability Report, visit RegalRexnord.com.
Other facts
About Regal Rexnord
All 30k+ associates at Regal Rexnord have a shared purpose: Create a better tomorrow with sustainable solutions that power, transmit, and control motion. We are a leading, global manufacturer of airflow, motion control, power transmission, and power generation solutions used in commercial, industrial and residential settings.
You may not know it, but Regal Rexnord impacts your life every day. Our products enable the fans in HVAC systems that keep us comfortable; the power source that keeps smart buildings running; the agricultural and food service equipment that keeps us fed; and the conveyor systems that keep e-commerce flowing. Regal Rexnord is comprised of four operating segments: Automation & Motion Control, Industrial Powertrain Solutions, Power Efficiency Solutions and Industrial Systems. Regal Rexnord is headquartered in Milwaukee, Wisconsin and has manufacturing, sales and service facilities worldwide. For more information, visit RegalRexnord.com.
What you'll do
- The Supplier Quality Development Engineer Manager is responsible for leading supplier selection and auditing, ensuring compliance with quality standards, and managing cost-saving projects. They will also monitor supplier performance and facilitate communication between suppliers and internal stakeholders.
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