Plant Procurement Team Engineer

Let's introduce ourselves

The Plant Procurement Team Engineer will act as a primary interface between Plant and Procurement on all supplier variability issues (Quality & Delivery). The role will primarily be collaborating with Plant Quality teams, Category teams, R&D and other stakeholders locally and globally to minimize supplier quality, delivery, and warranty impact to the customer.

What you'll do

• Collaborate with plant stakeholders to secure supplier containment and minimize impact to plant production.
• Review and approve 8D root cause and corrective actions from suppliers to address quality and delivery issues.
• Evaluate data to identify potential risks and systemic improvement areas for suppliers in order to develop improvement strategies with the cross-functional team.
• Initiate intensified plant activities in plant for underperforming suppliers and drive meetings with suppliers and internal teams.
• Support manufacturing with 2nd line problem solving analysis by utilizing problem solving methodology to solve day to day issues.
• Support PPL and Procurement Launch Leader with new program launches in plants. • Support with global and local OKR initiatives and strategies.
• Provide internal and external training in area of my competences.

What you'll bring

Knowledge/Requirements:
• Bachelor’s degree in engineering or proven equivalent experience.
• Minimum 3 years of relevant work experience in Quality Engineering, Production, or Manufacturing.
• Strong understanding of problem-solving methodologies and applied skills.
• Intermediate level knowledge of Control Plans and Failure Mode and Effect Analysis (FMEA)
• Understanding of one or more of the following manufacturing processes: Interior manufacturing, injection molding, stamping and welding.

Preferred Qualifications:
• Experience from the automotive industry in plant supplier quality, supplier development, logistics, or supply chain is strongly preferred.
• Green belt, black belt, or quality certification.
• Intermediate level knowledge of the PPAP process.