Senior Supplier Quality Engineer
GE Aerospace
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Office
Location: Rivalta di Torino • 🇮🇹 Italy
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Senior
Tech Stack
Assembly
About the role
- Lead the organization in resolving complex customer quality concerns related to supplier performance, ensuring alignment with strategic business objectives
- Monitor and analyze customer scorecards, driving preventive actions to mitigate disruptions triggered by suppliers
- Establish strategic partnerships with suppliers to anticipate volume evolution, adapt to changing quality requirements, and implement long-term improvement plans
- Provide advanced engineering support to supplier manufacturing processes, ensuring consistent application of quality techniques to resolve high-impact issues related to capability, tolerancing, and materials
- Lead supplier eligibility assessments, readiness reviews, and surveillance audits, ensuring robust early containment actions are applied
- Drive APQP (Advanced Product Quality Planning) initiatives, including customer requirements flow-down, FMEA, and leveraging lessons learned, ensuring PPAP approvals are conducted on-site when required
- Champion the use of Flight Deck tools across multidisciplinary teams, driving cultural and operational transformation
- Develop and implement breakthrough process improvement strategies in collaboration with stakeholders, leveraging Flight Deck principles such as Hoshin Kanri to achieve significant productivity gains in product cost and service business
- Act as a senior advisor and active leader in Hoshin Kanri initiatives and lean development with strategic/critical suppliers
- Oversee resolution of complex shop issues related to supplied parts, ensuring rapid identification and containment of non-compliances
- Lead strategic management of Supplier Quality KPIs through advanced standard work practices
- Represent supplier quality in high-level production planning meetings, providing actionable insights on constraints preventing product/process release
- Lead cross-functional problem-solving events to address internal scraps and supplier escapes, ensuring root cause analysis, corrective actions, risk assessments, and standardization through lessons learned/FMEA
- Make critical decisions to stop production in the event of uncontained supplied off-spec parts, ensuring minimal disruption to operations
- Act as the gatekeeper for scrap assets, inventory control, and supplier-related parts management
- Lead advanced risk assessments (e.g., PFMEA, PQA) to ensure compliance with product, process, and system quality requirements
- Identify and implement improvement parameters using advanced statistical methods to sustain manufacturing processes and prevent non-conformities
- Drive deployment of lessons learned through Yokoten, ensuring successful preventive actions are shared across the organization
Requirements
- Master's Degree in Engineering
- Extensive experience in driving quality assurance and control within complex manufacturing environments, with a proven track record of leadership in supplier quality management
- Advanced understanding of mechanical processes
- Deep expertise in aerospace standards and customer-specific requirements
- Advanced knowledge of materials used in the aerospace industry
- Certified auditor with significant experience in conducting audits and assessments
- Expert-level proficiency in GD&T (Geometric Dimensioning and Tolerancing)
- Proven Expertise in Quality Tools: PDCA/A3, Ishikawa diagram/3x5L Why, SIPOC/Process Flow Diagram/Process Flow Chart, Production Control Plan/FMEA, APQP/PPAP, SPC/Run Charts, MSA
- Advanced Knowledge of Manufacturing Processes: Complex assembly, Machining, Electronic assembly, Welding/Brazing, Sheet metal forming, Heat treatment/Thermal coating
- Willingness to travel at least 50% of the time
- Fluency in English and Italian
- Work Visa in accordance with local regulation is required
Benefits
- Performance related bonuses and local bonus scheme
- Flexible benefits platform
- Life and injury insurance
- Private medical cover
- Employee assistant program
- Employee special awards (service and recognition)
- Local special agreements and discounts
- English and languages training for you and one member of your family
- Technical, Leadership and development trainings
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard skills
quality assurancequality controladvanced engineering supportrisk assessmentsstatistical methodsGD&TAPQPFMEASPCmanufacturing processes
Soft skills
leadershipproblem-solvingstrategic managementcross-functional collaborationcommunicationdecision-makingcultural transformationstakeholder engagementroot cause analysisprocess improvement
Certifications
Master's Degree in EngineeringCertified auditor