**Career Area**:
Procurement
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**Role Definition**
Assesses the supplier quality and ensures that all the products are free from defects and are in compliance with manufacturing specifications and legal standards.
**Responsibilities**
- Ensuring the quality of supplies by conducting tests and assessments on incoming supplies to identify any quality issues; Developing supplier inspection, testing, and evaluation mechanism.
- Generating reports on supplier quality, by monitoring their defect rates and areas that can lead to potential flaws; Guiding suppliers to reduce these defect rates.
- Researching the potential vendors, assessing their manufacturing environment, practices, and procedures; Conducting supplier quality control audits to ensure compliance with organizational and federal policies and standards.
- Supporting suppliers in improving their performance through process enhancements, implementing process controls, and developing quality assurance plans.
**Degree Requirement**
Engineering Degree
**Skill Descriptors**
Effective Communications:
- Delivers helpful feedback that focuses on behaviors without offending the recipient.
- Listens to feedback without defensiveness and uses it for own communication effectiveness.
- Makes oral presentations and writes reports needed for own work.
- Avoids technical jargon when inappropriate.
- Looks for and considers non-verbal cues from individuals and groups.
- English level: Proficient
Problem Solving:
- Identifies and documents specific problems and resolution alternatives.
- Examines a specific problem and understands the perspective of each involved stakeholder.
- Develops alternative techniques for assessing accuracy and relevance of information.
- Helps to analyze risks and benefits of alternative approaches and obtain decision on resolution.
- Uses fact-finding techniques and diagnostic tools to identify problems.
Process Improvement:
- Defines the critical workflow for executing key processes.
- Identifies process problems that limit performance.
- Implements methods for improving and establishing controls for critical processes.
- Focuses on the most significant problems to maximize efficiency gains.
- Surfaces systemic problems to be addressed at the organizational level.
Quality Orientation:
- Confronts root causes of problems wherever they exist.
- Eliminates unnecessary work and all non-value-added activities.
- Uses objective quality criteria and data to drive decisions.
- Documents learnings regarding quality outcomes so that the data can be used for improvement.
- Surfaces quality problems whose root causes fall outside the group's responsibility.
Production Part Approval Process (PPAP):
- Develops testing and validation procedures to test the quality of manufactured parts/products so that it meets desired customer standards.
- Identifies and resolves key issues with PPAP implementation and submissions.
- Monitors the execution of PPAP steps within a facility and ensures their compliance with industry standards and internal guidelines.
- Oversees PPAP implementation; establishes a high trust relationship between stakeholders.
- Reviews the complex documentation and elements required during the PPAP submission process.
- Trains others on the execution of PPAP to get the required approvals and teaches them about the different PPAP submission levels.
Manufacturing Standards, Procedures and Policies:
- Contributes to the development and implementation of specific manufacturing procedures.
- Investigates the need to refer potential exceptions upward for review and approval.
- Explains the rationale for procedures and standards in own area of responsibility.
- Participates in the implementation of manufacturing standards and procedures to one's own function.
- Provides feedback for improvement of procedures.
- Knowledge in fabrication
- Knowledge in welding procedures
Supplier Management - MFG:
- Facilitates supplier partnering arrangements that share risk and reward.
- Monitors supplier performance; works to resolve discrepancies between performance and agreements.
- Develops quality standards and controls for suppliers.
- Builds and maintains partnerships with multiple and/or large suppliers.
- Evaluates issues and terminates supplier relationships as appropriate; works with legal departments.
- Ensures the fulfillment of report and record-keeping requirements.
Supplier Evaluations and Certification:
- Documents and pursues results of reference calls