Supplier Engineer

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Supplier Engineer 1

Your role:

• Lead supplier qualification and development activities, evaluating new suppliers, supporting supplier selection, conducting capability assessments, and driving continuous supplier quality improvement initiatives.
• Own APQP execution throughout NPI projects, applying quality tools such as PFMEA, Control Plans, MSA, SPC, Process Validation, FAI, and Supplier Approval processes to ensure successful product industrialization and on-time project delivery.
• Partner cross-functionally with R&D and suppliers to drive Design for Excellence (DfX), communicate Critical to Quality (CtQ) requirements, and ensure robust quality standards are embedded from design through production.
• Manage supplier quality performance and issue resolution, including Part Submission Warrant approvals, Supplier Agreements, defect investigations, root cause analysis, and Supplier Corrective Action Requests (SCARs) to ensure ongoing compliance and product quality.

You're the right fit if:

• Bachelor's degree with a minimum of 2 years of relevant engineering, quality, manufacturing, or supplier quality experience; or 4 years of equivalent professional experience with an associate degree, technical diploma, or other applicable educational background.
• Lead supplier qualification and development activities, evaluating new suppliers, supporting supplier selection, conducting capability assessments, and driving continuous supplier quality improvement initiatives.
• Own APQP execution throughout NPI projects, applying quality tools such as PFMEA, Control Plans, MSA, SPC, Process Validation, FAI, and Supplier Approval processes to ensure successful product industrialization and on-time project delivery.
• Partner cross-functionally with R&D and suppliers to drive Design for Excellence (DfX), communicate Critical to Quality (CtQ) requirements, and ensure robust quality standards are embedded from design through production.
• Manage supplier quality performance and issue resolution, including Part Submission Warrant approvals, Supplier Agreements, defect investigations, root cause analysis, and Supplier Corrective Action Requests (SCARs) to ensure ongoing compliance and product quality.

How we work together

We believe that we are better together than apart. For our office-based teams, this means working in-person at least 3 days per week.
Onsite roles require full-time presence in the company’s facilities.
Field roles are most effectively done outside of the company’s main facilities, generally at the customers’ or suppliers’ locations.

This role is an office role.

About Philips
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If you’re interested in this role and have many, but not all, of the experiences needed, we encourage you to apply. You may still be the right candidate for this or other opportunities at Philips. Learn more about our culture of impact with care here.

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