Job Description Summary

As Lead Supplier Quality Engineer Casting you will ensure deliveries consistently meet all customers’ quality and regulatory requirements and lead preventive enhancement initiatives to supplier manufacturing processes; actively participate in sourcing and industrialization processes to achieve the target of zero Customer Defects; lead with sourcing and product engineering preventive assessment of design to manufacturing; ensure that quality is consistently flexible and able to react to changing demands.

Job Description

Essential Responsibilities

Supplier Development

• Provide engineering support to supplier manufacturing process ensuring consistent application of quality techniques to resolve quality issues of capability, tolerancing and materials by leading the implementation of action plans and providing resources.

• Close integrated collaboration with sourcing department to assist supplier development strategy.

• Close integrated collaboration with Engineering department to assist supplier in the industrialization phase ensuring the capability and control of their production processes.

• Lead supplier eligibility assessment, readiness review and surveillance audits.

• Lead APQP ensuring that PPAP is approved on-site when it is required.

• Lead suppliers launch and ramp up by ensuring early containment actions apply.

Daily Metric Management

• Handle daily shop issues related to supplied parts by identification & containment of non-compliances.

Non-Conformity Events

• Lead all the related stakeholders all problem-solving events to contain internal scraps and supplier escapes, find root cause and corrective action, make the risk assessment and standardize through Lesson Learnt/FMEA.

Continuous Improvement

• Lead risk assessment (e.g. PFMEA, PQA, etc) to ensure compliance to product/process/system quality requirements.

• Determine improvement parameters by identifying statistical methods relevant to sustain manufacturing processes to adhere to standard requirements and prevent occurrence of any non-conformity related to product, process or system.

Qualifications/Requirements

• Master’s degree in engineering or science.

• Proven track record of minimum 3 year-experience in driving quality assurance and control in Casting Foundries, or proven experience in SQ for casting suppliers .

• Strong Knowledge of GD&T, and basic knowledge in special processes HT and NDT, FPI, MPI and Xray inspection.

• Strong knowledge of MSA is mandatory.

• Proven track record of main quality tools:

  • PDCA

  • Ishikawa diagram/3x5L Why

  • SIPOC/Process Flow Diagram/Process Flow Chart

  • Production Control Plan/FMEA

  • APQP/PPAP

  • SPC/Run Charts

  • MSA

• English fluently spoken.

• Willingness to travel at least 50% of the time.

• Work Visa in accordance with local regulations

Desired Characteristics

• We are looking for motivated people, focused on delivering quality, with a strong analytic problem-solving mindset.

• Being Humble, transparent, open minded and teamwork are part of our core values.

What we offer

Smart working and work life-balance

Avio Aero, when possible, promotes remote work and encourages a good, healthy and satisfying work-life balance. We value our employees’ wellbeing; hence we offer a variety of improvement programs aimed to preserve anyone’s psychological safety and daily needs.

Total Rewards

At Avio Aero, we understand the importance of Total Rewards. As a new joiner to Avio Aero we are pleased to offer the following welcome benefit plan:

• Performance related bonuses and local bonus scheme

• Flexible benefits platform

• Life and injury insurance

• Private medical cover  

• Employee assistant program

• Employee special awards (service and recognition)   

• Local special agreements and discounts

• English and languages training for you and one member of your family

• Technical, Leadership and development trainings

Inclusion & Diversity

Avio Aero is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer and we are strongly committed to maintain an inclusive and diverse environment. Every employment decision is taken regardless to national or ethnic origin, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, etc.

We are not all the same. Just be Yourself @AvioAero!

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