Supplier Quality Engineer - Automotive Industry

Overview

Expleo is a global engineering, technology, and consulting service provider that partners with leading organizations to guide them through their business transformation, helping them achieve operational excellence and future-proof their businesses.  Expleo benefits from more than 50 years of experience developing complex products in automotive and aerospace, optimizing manufacturing processes, and ensuring the quality of information systems. Leveraging its deep sector knowledge and wide-ranging expertise in fields including AI engineering, digitalization, automation, cybersecurity and data science, the group’s mission is to fast-track innovation through each step of the value chain. With a worldwide presence in 30 countries, our global footprint includes excellence centers around the world, including Romania since 1994.

Responsibilities

Role purpose:

Ensure that assigned suppliers have the production capacity and industrial capability to deliver parts that meet quality requirements and required volumes. The role involves frequent supplier visits, process assessments and follow-up of action plans to secure production continuity during new product industrialization and series production.

Key responsibilities:

• Production capacity assessment and assurance.
• Assess and validate supplier production capacity against required volumes and identify risks that could affect deliveries.
• Conduct on-site reviews of equipment, processes, cycle times, bottlenecks and production resources to verify available capacity.
• Agree action plans with suppliers to address capacity shortfalls and monitor their implementation and effectiveness.
• Product and process industrialization.
• Monitor supplier readiness for new part launches and ensure that lessons learned from previous projects and current production are incorporated.
• Track tooling and process schedules and contribute to Advanced Product Quality Planning (APQP) and product and process qualification, including on-site supplier assessments.
• Review process deliverables and capacity at relevant project milestones and contribute to part delivery approval with the responsible teams.
• Identify and communicate industrial risks, follow up process issues and escalate concerns that could affect launches or deliveries.
• Assess the impact of product or process changes on supplier industrialization and capacity.
• Monitor part conformity, compliance with control plans and supplier performance in quality, logistics and industrial efficiency.
• Conduct process and quality system assessments and verify the effectiveness of supplier action plans.
• Manage quality incidents and coordinate containment actions to protect customer production, following issues through to resolution and corrective action closure using PDCA.

Qualifications

• Knowledge of Quality, Solving Problem Methods, Lean tools, PFMEA, Statistical Process Control.
• Knowledge of industrialization processes, project management, product design engineering.
• Knowledge of logistic operating modes.
• Knowledge of purchasing and supplier relationship, information confidentiality mastery.
• Leadership capacities, results orientation, demanding.
• Advanced level of English.
• Availability to travel 60% of the time in HU, CZ and SVK.

What do I need before I apply

• Availability to travel 60% of the time in HU, CZ and SVK.