Supplier Quality Development Engineer

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Position Title: Supplier Quality Development Engineer

In this role you have the opportunity to

Work on achieving a state of high quality performance at our Supplier partners. You will pursue continuous quality improvement through the application of Quality Engineering practices on Philips products/parts/services procured from suppliers throughout the product lifecycle including sustaining change management. Philips success heavily relies on the performance of its supply chain partners. To drive our success and accelerate the development of our supply chain partners we are looking for an SQE to support our team and work with us to make Philips the front-runner in the medical industry.

You are responsible for

• Reviewing Supplier Quality Agreements

• Analyze defects to determine if they are supplier caused and notify accordingly

• Managing/Issuing/Following up on Supplier Corrective Action Requests

• APQP execution monitoring and control as part of Sustaining Changes (Life Cycle Engineering)

• Supplier performance monitoring reporting improvement and development

• Support Supplier quality risk assessment and mitigation

• Acceptance of products that have gone through NPI process before official release

• Support Supplier audit schedule development and maintenance for audits related to supplier processes supplier selection corrective/preventive action verification

• Assess and coordinate Supplier Change Requests

• DEFOA analysis and securing reoccurrence

To succeed in this role you should have the following skills and experience

• Bachelors degree in an Engineering or other scientific field or equivalent experience.

• Minimum 3-5 years experience in supplier quality in a highly regulated industry.

• Detailed knowledge and experience of APQP and related PPAP tools.

• Well versed in Quality Engineering and Continuous Improvement techniques.

• Participated in several NPIs from start to finish.

• Direct shop-floor production engineering sustaining experience.

• Strong negotiation skills and ability to lead through influence.

• Experience having direct working relationships with suppliers.

• Flexible mindset and proactive approach.

• Excellent communication skills in English.

• Willingness to travel up to 20% of the time.

How we work together
We believe that we are better together than apart. For our office-based teams this means working in-person at least 3 days per week.
Onsite roles require full-time presence in the companys facilities.
Field roles are most effectively done outside of the companys main facilities generally at the customers or suppliers locations.
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About Philips
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If youre interested in this role and have many but not all of the experiences needed we encourage you to apply. You may still be the right candidate for this or other opportunities at Philips. Learn more about our culture of impact with care here.