Supplier Quality Engineer

Supplier Quality Engineer

HIROTEC Manufacturing America, located in Fayetteville, Tennessee, is part of the HIROTEC Group, headquartered in Hiroshima, Japan. HIROTEC Group delivers body-in-white closures, exhaust systems, flexible closure tooling, and stamping dies to automotive customers around the world. With a US headquarters in Auburn Hills, MI, HIROTEC Group operates 33 facilities in eight countries.

Currently, we are seeking a Supplier Quality Engineer to become a part of the HIROTEC team.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Reviewing incoming supplies and products from vendors to check for defects and ensure quality.
• Conducting tests and assessments on products to identify quality issues.
• Maintaining detailed reports on supplier quality, including defect rates and areas that result in flaws.
• Providing technical advice and guidance to suppliers to reduce defect rates.
• Participation in program meetings, lead and support supplier audits, APQP, and PPAP activities to ensure all deliverables are being fulfilled.
• Establish close relationships with assigned suppliers and actively drive continuous improvement activities.
• Initiate and follow-up on corrective actions and verify effectiveness.
• Collaborate with engineering and suppliers to alleviate discrepancies in product specifications and evaluate cost reduction opportunities.
• Point of contact and supplier representative regarding all questions pertaining to quality and technical matters.
• Drive acceptable incoming quality levels to support manufacturing, cost, capacity and delivery goals.
• Perform supplier quality systems and process audits as well as lead supplier improvement/development programs.
• Serving as a liaison between our company's senior management and the vendors to identify quality issues and come up with solutions.
• Create reports documenting errors and issues for fixing.
• Ability to make accurate assessments of problems, communicate effectively, both verbally and in writing, with a strong interest in a collaborative working process.
• Inform customers of any issue with a product’s quality and assure a corrective plan is in place.
• Maintain a safe, organized, and clean work area.
• Participate in and lead 5S, Quality, Safety, Delivery, Cost, Kaizen, and Lean manufacturing activities.
• Other duties and projects may be assigned based on the operational objectives of the company.

If you are hardworking, dependable, and enjoy a group environment,

come join the HIROTEC Manufacturing America team.

An excellent work environment and benefits await you!