Supplier Development Engineer - Stafford, Staffordshire, United Kingdom - Recruit Central

Description

Recruit Central are currently recruiting for a Supplier Development Engineer on behalf of their client based in Stafford.

This is a Contract Role and the hourly pay rate will be: GBP26.00 per hour based on a 37 hour week.

Working Hours: 8:00 - 4:30pm Monday - Thursday, Fridays 8am - 1pm.

Job Responsibilities & Requirements:

Do you have experience working as a Supplier Development Engineer? Do you have an understanding of General Machining? Are you able to work on a Project using your own initiative?

If so, this could be a great opportunity for you below:

• Ensuring the quality of supplies by conducting tests and assessments on incoming supplies to identify any quality issues, Developing supplier inspection, testing, and evaluation mechanism.

• Generating reports on supplier quality, by monitoring their defect rates and areas that can lead to potential flaws; Guiding suppliers to reduce these defect rates.

• Researching the potential vendors, assessing their manufacturing environment, practices, and procedures.

• Conducting supplier quality control audits to ensure compliance with organizational and federal policies and standards.

• Supporting suppliers in improving their performance through process enhancements, implementing process controls, and developing quality assurance plans.

Skills and Experience required of the Supplier Development Engineer:

• Degree or equivalent experience desired.

• Understanding of general machining, basic process principles.

• Effective Communications

• Problem Solving: Knowledge of approaches, tools, techniques for recognizing, anticipating, and resolving organizational, operational or process problems; ability to apply knowledge of problem solving appropriately to diverse situations.

• Process Improvement: Understanding and insight into evaluating current product quality and production methods and ability to maintains focus on the continuous improvement of processes, products and services.

• Quality Orientation: Knowledge of quality management methods, tools, and techniques; ability to create and support an environment that meets the quality goals of the organization.

• Production Part Approval Process (PPAP): Knowledge of PPAP elements, submissions, and objectives; ability to determine whether a supplier can manufacture products that meet the quality requirements and standards of their customers consistently.

• Manufacturing Standards, Procedures and Policies: Knowledge of organizational standards, procedures and policies in manufacturing activities; ability to plan, guide, and monitor manufacturing processes for compliance.

• Supplier Management: Knowledge of processes and methods to effectively manage business relationships and transactions with suppliers of raw materials or product components; ability to apply related knowledge, experience and skills into real practice.

• Supplier Evaluations and Certification: Knowledge of supplier evaluations and certification; ability to identify the methods, tools and documentation for evaluating, selecting and certifying vendors, suppliers and partners.

For more information please call Shelley (phone number removed)