Supplier Quality Engineer

Job Description

The Supplier Quality Engineer will be responsible for ensuring externally supplied components and assemblies meet engineering, quality, and manufacturing requirements. This individual will work closely with suppliers and internal engineering, procurement, manufacturing, and quality teams to resolve supplier-related issues, improve supplier performance, and support both new and existing products.

Key Responsibilities

• Own supplier quality issues from identification through root cause, corrective action, verification, and closure.
• Investigate non-conforming incoming components and supplier-related production issues.
• Lead supplier corrective actions using 8D, 5 Why, Fishbone, and other structured root-cause methodologies.
• Work directly with suppliers to implement corrective and preventive actions and verify effectiveness.
• Conduct supplier audits, capability assessments, and quality reviews.
• Support qualification and approval of new suppliers, components, and manufacturing processes.
• Develop and review PPAPs, control plans, PFMEAs, inspection plans, and process capability data.
• Partner with Engineering and Procurement on supplier selection and component qualification.
• Support New Product Introduction (NPI) by ensuring suppliers can consistently manufacture to engineering drawings and specifications.
• Review engineering drawings, tolerances, GD&T, specifications, and supplier inspection documentation.
• Analyze supplier quality metrics including defect rates, incoming inspection results, NCRs, SCARs, and recurring failures.
• Work with manufacturing and quality teams to contain supplier issues that could impact production.
• Drive continuous improvement initiatives with suppliers across quality, reliability, cost, and delivery.
• Coordinate disposition and resolution of supplier-related non-conforming material.

Core Skills

• Supplier Quality Engineering
• Quality Engineering / Quality Assurance
• Supplier Development
• Root Cause Analysis and Corrective Action
• Supplier Auditing
• PPAP / PFMEA / Control Plans
• GD&T and Engineering Drawings
• ISO 9001
• NPI / Supplier Qualification

Nice to Haves

• Experience working with suppliers supporting engineered products or complex manufacturing environments.
• Experience supporting NPI, supplier qualification, or supplier industrialization.
• Knowledge of ISO 9001 quality management systems.
• ASQ certification such as CQE or CQA.
• Experience with statistical quality tools including SPC, MSA, GR&R, Cp/Cpk, and process capability analysis.
• Experience managing suppliers across multiple regions or international supply chains.
• Familiarity with ERP or QMS platforms used for supplier quality, NCR, and corrective-action management.

Job Type & Location

This is a Contract position based out of Vancouver, BC.

The pay range for this position is $45.00 - $52.00/hr.

Individual compensation offered for this position within this range will depend on many factors, including qualifications, skills, relevant experience, job knowledge, geographic location, internal equity, and other pertinent job-related factors.

This is a Contract position based out of Vancouver, BC.

This is a fully onsite position in Vancouver,BC.

À propos d'Actalent

Actalent est un leader mondial dans les services dingénierie et de sciences ainsi que dans les solutions de talents. Nous aidons des entreprises visionnaires à faire progresser leurs initiatives dingénierie et de science grâce à laccès à des experts spécialisés qui favorisent léchelle, linnovation et la rapidité de mise sur le marché. Avec un réseau de près de 20 000 consultants et 5 000 clients à travers les États-Unis, le Canada, lAsie et lEurope, Actalent dessert de nombreuses entreprises du Fortune 500. Nous sommes fiers dêtre lune des 500 meilleures firmes de conception de lEngineering News-Record (ENR) pour nos services de conception en ingénierie et un lauréat du prix ClearlyRated Best of Staffing® tant pour le service client que pour les talents.

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About Actalent

Actalent is a global leader in engineering and sciences services and talent solutions. We help visionary companies advance their engineering and science initiatives through access to specialized experts who drive scale, innovation and speed to market. With a network of almost 20,000 consultants and 5,000 clients across the U.S., Canada, Asia and Europe, Actalent serves many of the Fortune 500. We are proud to be an Engineering News-Record (ENR) Top 500 Design Firm for our engineering design services and a ClearlyRated Best of Staffing® winner for both client and talent service.

The company is an equal opportunity employer and will consider all applications without regard to race, sex, age, color, religion, national origin, veteran status, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information or any characteristic protected by law.

If you would like to request a reasonable accommodation, such as the modification or adjustment of the job application process or interviewing process due to a disability, please email [email protected] for other accommodation options.

San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance: Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, for all positions located in the city and county of San Francisco, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

Use of Artificial Intelligence (AI):We may use Artificial Intelligence (AI) to support parts of our hiring process, including sourcing, screening, and evaluating candidates. AI helps assess applications and qualifications, but final decisions are made by our hiring team. By applying, you acknowledge and agree that your application may be reviewed using AI tools.