Sr Quality Engineer (supplier Focused)

Freudenberg Group Job Opportunity

Maintain and improve the Quality & HSE Management System, ensuring alignment with global standards and customer and supplier expectations.

Evaluate supplier performance and facilitate supplier audits, capability assessments, and corrective action activities to strengthen supplier quality.

Support supplier development initiatives to improve quality, reduce risk, and enhance process capability, partnering closely with Purchasing and Engineering.

Partner with Sales, Engineering, and suppliers to analyze warranty returns, ensuring robust root-cause analysis and corrective actions while managing the claim process for customer and supplier issues.

Outline, monitor, and improve Quality Key Performance Indicators (KPIs), developing and leading action plans to elevate internal and supplier-related quality performance.

Facilitate internal, external, customer, and supplier audits while leading cross-site audit activities and driving audit-related improvements.

Deliver Quality & HSE training to internal teams and provide guidance on quality standards, systems, and tools, including coaching on measurement systems and problem-solving methodologies.

Serve as a liaison for quality-related communication with customers and suppliers, communicating trends, systemic issues, and improvement actions.

Lead or support quality improvement projects using Lean, Six Sigma, and structured problem-solving methods while supporting process improvements, equipment upgrades, and measurement system enhancements.

Prepare and maintain PPAP documentation and other required records, ensuring compliance with internal procedures, industry standards, and customer and supplier specifications.

Support measurement activities, sampling documentation, and analysis for prototypes and requalification while participating in APQP activities to ensure flawless product launches.

The Freudenberg Group is an equal opportunity employer that is committed to diversity and inclusion. Employment opportunities are available to all applicants and associates without regard to race, color, religion, creed, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding, or related medical conditions), gender identity or expression, national origin, ancestry, age, mental or physical disability, genetic information, marital status, familial status, sexual orientation, protected military or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.

Freudenberg-NOK General Partnership