Job Description
We are seeking a Supplier Quality Engineer to serve as the primary link between the plant suppliers and regional/global SQ teams. This position plays a key role in ensuring supplier part quality responding quickly to production issues and leading containment technical assessments and corrective actions.
Key Responsibilities
1. Plant & Supplier Interface
- Act as the main liaison between the plant suppliers and SQ Brazil/global teams.
- Serve as first responder for supplierrelated production issues.
- Perform initial triage technical evaluations and drive immediate containment.
- Identify potential designrelated failures and engage Engineering as needed.
- Support local and imported parts to ensure compliance with GM standards.
2. Supplier Quality & Problem Solving
- Lead suppliers in robust problemsolving methodologies.
- Monitor and support APQP PPAP 8D Redex PokaYoke and GM quality systems.
- Facilitate rapid rootcause identification and implementation of corrective actions.
3. Plant Support & Governance
- Manage daily/weekly field quality issues that may impact production.
- Coordinate calls for containment breakpoints and certified shipments.
- Collaborate with Engineering on disposition of vehicles with suspect material.
- Support onsite rootcause analysis at GM manufacturing facilities.
- Review SPPS submissions for compliance with GM 192717.
- Serve as SQ subjectmatter expert for plant Quality Engineering leadership.
- Monitor controlledshipping requests and provide approvals.
4. CrossFunctional Collaboration
- Attend PreCPIT PRTS CPIT and platform forums.
- Lead actions requested by CPIT Platform Engineering Manufacturing Quality and PPM.
- Join postCPIT warranty deepdives for top vehicle issues.
- Serve as the single point of contact for SQ issues affecting production.
- Coordinate containment for SQassigned CDP 24hour issues.
- Support partreturn processes for Engineering Investigations (EIs).
5. Continuous Monitoring
- Review warranty data to identify emerging quality trends.
- Work with SMT and supplier SQ teams on containment root cause and corrective actions.
- Join adhoc calls for issues without a defined owner.
- Maintain reporting routines and provide timely updates to leadership.
Requirements
- Bachelors degree in Mechanical Engineering.
- Active CREA registration (Brazil).
- Active CNH
- Advanced English.
- Experience in Supplier Quality / EQF.
- Strong background in supplier quality processes.
- Proficiency with: APQP PPAP 8D PokaYoke Redex
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This role is categorized as onsite. This means the selected candidate is expected to report to a specific location on a full-time basis.
The selected candidate will be required to travel at least 50% or more on a frequent basis.
This job is not eligible for relocation benefits. Any relocation costs would be the responsibility of the selected candidate.
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