Senior Supplier Quality Engineer

Qnity

Senior Supplier Quality Engineer for Qnity managing materials in advanced electronics. Collaborating with suppliers, conducting audits, and ensuring quality standards.

Posted 7/10/2026full-timeCircleville • Ohio, Pennsylvania, Texas • 🇺🇸 United StatesSeniorWebsite

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Establish and maintain quality standards for raw and intermediate materials for use in manufacturing
Monitor incoming raw material quality using SPC tools and engage with suppliers when issues arise
Support troubleshooting of supplied material issues in manufacturing, facilitate Root Cause Investigations (RCIs) related to the supplied material’s impact on final product performance, and develop mitigation strategies to prevent excursions
Manage supplier performance by conducting regular QMS and technical audits, leading quality meetings, and tracking improvement activities
Provide performance feedback to suppliers based on quarterly scorecards and convey electronics industry expectations regarding management of change and process control
Drive the improvement of quality and performance of suppliers' quality systems, including management of change and notification protocols, root cause investigations, documentation and reporting, calibration, and non-conforming material review systems
Fully understand supplier’s manufacturing process, control methods, measurement, and quality systems to develop raw material risk mitigation FMEAs
Drive raw material and sub-supplier changes through the change management process
Ensure new and existing raw material supply plans align with business strategy
Use risk assessment tools to determine second source opportunities and alternate agreements with current suppliers
Manage qualification planning, trials, and data packages for new raw materials, suppliers, or supplier process changes
Coordinate analytical tasks and work with subject matter experts to understand raw material characteristics.
Work with stakeholders to link key parameters of material analysis to process/product performance
Lead cross functional taskforces with Process Engineering, R&D and manufacturing stakeholders as needed

Requirements

What you’ll need

Bachelor’s degree or higher in Chemical Engineering, Chemistry, Materials Science/Engineering, or a related engineering discipline is required.
7+ years combined experience in manufacturing, Development/Scale-up, Quality or Continuous Improvement Engineering is required.
Demonstrated experience with risk tools such as FMEAs
Demonstrated understanding of statistical techniques including DOE, Control Charts, Gage R&R, ANOVA is required.
Experience working and managing projects in a global environment (both internal and external) with communications across cultures
Proven change management and project management skills – improvements in material/supplier performance require multiple projects to be managed with varying complexity and customer impact
Experience using a statistical software program (e.g., Minitab, JMP™) is required.
Required to have proficient computer skills such as advanced Excel and PowerPoint use.

Benefits

Comp & perks

Comprehensive pay and benefits package

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Hard Skills & Tools

Statistical TechniquesDesign of Experiments (DOE)Control ChartsGage R&RANOVAChange ManagementManufacturing Process UnderstandingRisk AssessmentSupplier Performance ManagementMaterial Qualification

Soft Skills

Cross-Functional CollaborationCommunication Across CulturesPerformance Feedback