Supplier Quality Engineer

at  Leggett Platt

We, at Leggett & Platt Inc., are searching for a Supplier Quality Engineer within our Quality team to help support our Aerospace business. At L&P Aerospace, we specialize in creating complex tube and duct assemblies using high-performance materials capable of withstanding extreme pressure, temperature, and chemical interactions. How high are our quality standards, you ask? So much so, that we have products on-board the Space Launch System with NASA, as well as the F-15 and F-35 fighter jets! If you join our team, your work will ensure families across the world fly a little safer, wherever their travels may take them.
The Supplier Quality Engineer (SQE) is a critical role within the business, responsible for ensuring that suppliers meet the company’s quality standards, by implementing robust quality processes and supplier audit plan driven by a risk-based approach using analysis of supplier data of product non-conformance and product criticality.

REQUIRED SKILLS:

• The role requires good communication skills, attention to detail and the ability to analyse and solve complex problems. The SQE plays a critical role in ensuring that the company’s products are of the highest quality and meet expectations.
• Strong interpersonal, verbal, and written communication skills to drive tasks to completion.
• Use of Microsoft office applications such as excel, word.
• ISO 9001; AS9100 qualified auditor with experience of conducting quality audits and developing/mentoring other internal auditors.
• Extensive experience with QMS development, application, and maintenance to ISO 9001; AS9100 essential.
• Experience working with First Article Inspection Reports (FAIR’s)
• Ability to select and use applicable methods, procedures, and standards to meet targets.
• Experience in problem solving/8D methodology and dealing with customer returns and complaints.
• Solid analytical skills and judgment to proactively identify and solve increasingly complex problems.
• Strong attention to detail, good organizational skills and the ability to prioritize with changing situations.

DESIRABLE SKILLS:

• Lead auditor trained.
• Experience working alongside NADCAP Welding & NDT requirements.
• Experience working with PPAP’s and APQP.
• Experience of working within or implementing requirements of AS13100.

EDUCATION:

Post-Secondary degree or equivalent combination of relevant education and work experience that will allow successful performance of job expectation.

CORE RESPONSIBILITIES

• Manage supplier quality management process.
• Maintain and develop supplier quality management process to ISO9001, AS9100, NADCAP and other aerospace and customer specific requirements.
• Maintain and develop a comprehensive supplier audit structure with clear audit schedule and audit performance.
• Define and lead supplier corrective action process, with reporting system to control and improve supplier quality throughout the business through audit nonconformance and internally identified product nonconformance.
• Provides training and mentoring of others within the business to conduct supplier audit.
• Supports quality assurance with internal auditing.
• Implements requirements within incoming inspection, for improved robust purchased part inspection.
• Maintains process for containment coordination to manage containment of purchased product.
• Maintain, develop, and improve processes and procedures ensuring they meet the current and future needs of the business.
• Supporting Quality Assurance tasks as required.
• Leads team-based problem-solving projects for root cause analysis, corrective & preventive actions for process, product, customer and supplier concerns.