Senior Supplier Quality Engineer, Fastening Systems 

Maintain and grow customer satisfaction and supplier relationships.

Implement and sustain policies, procedures, and systems to meet industry requirements.

Qualify new products and processes as part of our corporate business strategy.

Provide leadership and development for quality performance and management of a team of qualified personnel throughout the organization. 

Manage all aspects of our fastening systems quality, excluding the QMS and requirements of the OE industries served including: automotive, commercial vehicle, off highway, agriculture, aerospace, defense, medical and other emerging markets.

Lead and develop quality department team members.  Implement policies and procedures in accordance with company’s QMS objectives.

Track the cost of quality internally and externally, cost of sorting & containment.  Reporting KPI’s daily, monthly & quarterly per plan to ensure organizations objectives are being achieved.

Investigate, track & monitor customer complaints using RMA process.

Lead and determine root cause, corrective action thru the 8D, 3L5Why process.

Partner with Sales & Engineering to define, map and implement appropriate testing, inspection systems and data collection to verify product conformance and analysis for improvement.

Other duties as assigned by various superiors or Corporate Quality Manager.

Communicate with Plant Manager and Supervisors on plant issues, problems.

Willingness and ability to travel up to 20% to the various business units and customer facilities as needed.