Supplier Quality Engineer II

The role

The Supplier Quality Engineer II ensures purchased electronic, electrical, electromechanical, and mechanical components and services meet quality requirements. This individual contributor manages supplier qualification, risk assessment, auditing, and nonconformance investigations. The role partners with internal stakeholders to resolve quality issues and improve supplier performance.

What you will do

• Establishes and maintains supplier-quality requirements for purchased components and services.
• Evaluates, qualifies, and monitors suppliers based on technical capability and performance.
• Reviews supplier quality documentation including process flows and material certifications.
• Conducts or supports supplier audits, process assessments, and source inspections.
• Monitors and analyzes supplier performance data and recurring trends.
• Leads supplier nonconformance investigations and coordinates containment activities.
• Applies structured problem-solving methodologies to determine root cause.
• Issues and follows through on supplier corrective-action requests.
• Supports Advanced Product Quality Planning and Production Part Approval Process.
• Collaborates with Engineering, Manufacturing, and Quality teams on failure analysis and risk reduction.

Required qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Quality Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Electronics Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Industrial Engineering, Manufacturing Engineering, Materials Science, or related tech
• Three or more years of relevant professional experience in supplier quality, quality engineering, manufacturing engineering, component engineering, or a related discipline, or an equivalent combinatio
• Working knowledge of supplier-quality management practices, supplier qualification, auditing, nonconformance management, corrective and preventive action, change control, risk management, and continuo
• Experience supporting electronic, electrical, electromechanical, or mechanical components and familiarity with associated manufacturing, inspection, testing, handling, packaging, and traceability requ
• Working knowledge of ISO 9001 or a comparable quality-management.
• Demonstrated ability to conduct or support supplier, process, product, or quality-system audits.
• Demonstrated ability to lead structured root-cause analysis using methodologies such as 8D, 5 Whys, fishbone analysis, Pareto analysis, and mistake-proofing.
• Ability to read and interpret engineering drawings, specifications, bills of material, inspection criteria, technical documentation, and supplier quality records.
• Working knowledge of statistical analysis, process capability, measurement systems, sampling, and trend analysis.
• Ability to use inspection and test data to assess product and process conformance.
• Ability to independently manage multiple supplier-quality assignments with limited supervision.
• Ability to communicate technical requirements, risks, findings, and recommendations effectively in English.

Nice to have

• Certified Quality Engineer, Certified Quality Auditor, Certified Supplier Quality Professional, or Lean Six Sigma Green Belt, or comparable quality certification.
• Experience with Advanced Product Quality Planning, Production Part Approval Process, first-article inspection, control plans, process failure mode and effects analysis, measurement-system analysis, an
• Knowledge of relevant electronics-industry standards such as IPC workmanship standards, electrostatic-discharge controls, counterfeit-part prevention, product-safety requirements, and component tracea
• Experience with supplier quality in an electronics-component, industrial automation, connector, printed-circuit-board, semiconductor, electromechanical, or comparable manufacturing environment.
• Familiarity with environmental and material-compliance requirements such as RoHS, REACH, conflict-minerals reporting, and supplier sustainability expectations.
• Experience working with global suppliers, contract manufacturers, distributors, or sub-tier supply chains.
• Experience using supplier scorecards, audit tools, corrective-action systems, enterprise-resource-planning systems, and statistical or business-intelligence applications.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision coverage
• 401k matching
• Generous time off package
• 16 weeks fully paid maternity leave
• 10 weeks fully paid paternity leave
• Life insurance
• Short & long-term disability
• On-site gym access
• Health & wellbeing center
• On-site café
• Walking trails
• Tuition assistance

About the company

Phoenix Contact is an equal opportunity employer committed to the diversity of its employees.