Staff Procurement Supplier Quality Engineer

Job Description

The Work

The Staff Procurement Supplier Quality Engineer (PQE) will tactically and strategically support suppliers , supply management in which supply parts to all locations of Sikorsky Aircraft.

This position is the most senior individual contributor PQE role within Sikorsky Supplier Quality and as such the person is expected to be the SME within Supplier Quality .

Along with this take ownership of issues and lead / guide small teams made up of multiple disciplines. This person will be the point of contact for assigned suppliers in conjunction with being the supplier quality POC within Sikorsky for their assigned suppliers .

Primary suppliers will be determined based on operation needs and best fit of candidate’s skills and experience. The position will be physically located in Stratford, CT.

The PQE will be responsible for support throughout the product life cycle from issue identification, supplier improvement and development activities.

Along with tactical resolutions to meet customer requirements and needs. The PQE will provide support through identification and implementation of process improvement activities that support Supplier Quality Organization’s key performance measurements, vision and strategy.

The successful candidate will also have the ability to lead a team when required to ensure mission success. The PQE role and responsibilities include but are not to be limited to :

Travel is required 50%

• Work with product center / area production QMs and QEs to resolve supplier RCCA and identifying continuous improvement opportunities
• Ability to identify and lead collaborative SQA efforts.
• POC for assigned suppliers , meaning the person will work with shop floor, supply management and the supplier to handle the daily and long term tactical supplier quality activities to ensure issues are identified and handled through to resolution.
• Monitor assigned supplier performance utilizing metrics
• Participate as required in supplier's failure diagnostic investigation
• Provide technical liaison support.
• Monitor supplier recovery action plans and proactively identify potential gaps
• Awareness of AS9100 and AS9102 requirements when dealing with suppliers related to handling of root cause corrective action for identified defects, first articles and product line variations.
• Take ownership and responsibility for critical processes within SQA organization
• Develop and utilize daily analytics to proactively address and identify trends
• Work with supplier counterpart on resolution of supplier quality issues through root cause corrective actions and ensure effectiveness.
• Develop and manage supplier transition plans as required.
• Report out to management and customer on root cause and corrective actions. Drive lessons learned and best practices across other product centers.
• Supporting the execution and achievement of all applicable Lockheed Martin, RMS and RMS Sikorsky business objectives.
• Support production readiness reviews, risk-based supplier assessments (RBATs), and supplier enhanced audits (SEAs).
• Support and / or manage special projects as required
• Ability to utilize Catia to complete review of Model Based Definition drawing and Reduced Dimension Drawings

Desired skills

Prior Quality Engineer experience

Prior experience working in aerospace / rotorcraft environment

Prior use of root cause corrective action tools.