Supplier Quality Assurance
England, West Midlands, Coventry - £40,000 per annum

Posted: 15/06/17

Description:
OB TITLE: Supplier Quality Assurance

DEPARTMENT:Purchasing

REPORTING TO:Head of Purchasing / Head of Quality


MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES

To monitor and maintain the Quality performance of the Suppliers products and services, via improvement activities and reactions to Quality related issues

To ensure Cmpany and end Customer quality expectations are maintained throughout the production life of the products

KEY TASKS

To raise, monitor for actions and close Supplier based Quality concerns. To assist the Supplier in the necessary activities required to effectively close such issues in a timely manner

To approve Supplier PPAP and APQP activities for new products and Engineering changes

Promote good Quality practices across the Supplier base in addition to using continuous improvement to improve Supplier performance. This may include End Customer expectations on the Supplier base

Perform audits on Suppliers as necessary and ensure corrective actions are implemented on non-conformities raised

Develop and maintain and Supplier Quality Manual (SQAM), in addition to ensuring that the manual is in line with the requirements of the latest version of TS16949

Monitor Supplier performance on Quality related issues. Eg Quality concerns; repeat concerns

Be involved, as necessary, on Supplier selection processes

Raise debit notes upon Suppliers where necessary and communicate such costs with the Finance Department

To effectively communicate Supplier related information to other departments as necessary

Implement Supplier development upon Suppliers in line with the requirements of the Company Quality System

Support the Supplier base, as necessary, in responding to Quality and performance related issues



QUALIFICATIONS AND EXPERIENCE

Must have a Quality background with necessary experience in corrective action resolution (8D, 5Y etc), APQP and PPAP.
Must have knowledge of Quality Systems, with experience of auditing to the requirements of TS16949
Experience in data analysis, QOS and business measures is required



The eight disciplines (8D) model is a problem solving approach typically employed by quality engineers or other professionals and commonly used by the automotive industry. Its purpose is to identify, correct, and eliminate recurring problems, and it is useful in product and process improvement.
The approach establishes a permanent corrective action based on statistical analysis of the problem and focuses on the origin of the problem by determining its root causes. Although it originally comprised eight stages, or disciplines, it was later augmented by an initial planning stage.