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Kaman Precision Products Fuzing · 1 month ago

Supplier Quality Engineer (Aerospace/Defense)

Middletown, CT

Full-time

Onsite

Senior Level

$39.42/hr - $46.15/hr

7+ years exp

Kaman Precision Products Fuzing is dedicated to innovation in aerospace and defense, seeking a talented Supplier Quality Engineer for their Middletown, CT facility. The role involves ensuring suppliers meet quality standards, conducting audits, and managing supplier performance to maintain high quality in parts and materials.

Defense & Space

No H1B

U.S. Citizen Only

Responsibilities

Maintain the supplier rating system, which will define the total cost of ownership of products procured from suppliers

Implement and maintain a supplier approval system that will, in a cost-effective manner, qualify suppliers to do business with the company and meet varied purchase order requirements

Evaluates lean initiatives at supplier facilities and assists in implementing lean as necessary

Assures the means for procurement to issue purchase orders to qualified/approved suppliers and all requirements are included in the purchase orders

Manage the supplier corrective action system to identify and correct supplier problems in a timely manner

Coordinate Supplier Manufacturing Readiness Reviews and manage Supplier Request for Variance (when applicable)

The Supplier Quality Engineer will conduct capability assessments that verify supplier qualifications, travel to assigned suppliers, and lead multiple projects to completion

Act as primary interface between the company and suppliers in resolving technical problems and performing source control inspections

Coordinate with functional departments and ensure that problems are resolved in a timely manner

Aid in determining the responsibility of discrepant hardware already received into the company and issued to the shop or shipped to customers

Establish and maintain effective communications with other operating departments and suppliers to facilitate problem identification/resolution and compliance with various specification requirements for supplier control

Prepare and maintain reports such as supplier performance, survey results, specification compliance, corrective actions, etc

Your responsibilities will include conducting audit, analyzing defect trends

Monitoring supplier performance and response times to ensure production continuity

Managing supplier corrective action reports

Developing and implementing supplier quality-related training programs for the quality and sourcing teams

Interface with cell managers to assure all applicable inspections/tests are performed and to assure that only acceptable hardware is received into the company

Collect and analyze supplier quality and delivery data

Develop and implement cost effective intervention plans to improve quality and on-time-delivery ratings

Maintain a list of approved suppliers

Monitor suppliers for continuous improvements

Ability to travel for supplier visits

Qualification

Supplier Quality EngineeringAerospace experienceISO 9000 regulationsRoot cause analysisSupplier auditsOrganizedCommunication skillsCritical thinkingDetail-oriented