Philips Senior Supplier Quality Engineer 

United Kingdom, England, Rushmoor 

830102109

Senior Supplier Quality Engineer

Your role:

• Coordinating technical capability assessments of potential new suppliers, ensuring they meet stringent quality standards, monitoring supplier performance, reporting, and improvement, and coordinates the supplier selection.

• Overseeing conduction of DFMAT (Design for Manufacturing and Assembly Technique), SAF (Supplier Approval Form), MSA (Measurement System Analysis), PFMEA (Process Failure Mode and Effects Analysis), Control Plan, SPC (Statistical Process Control), PV&V (Process Validation and Verification), FAI (First Article Inspection), LRA (Logistics Risk Assessment), and SICR (Supplier Initiated Change Request).

• Managing, developing, monitoring, and controlling APQP (Advanced Product Quality Planning) plans as part of the NPI process to ensure consistent quality and compliance as well as facilitating supplier improvement initiatives.

• Sustains Design for Excellence (DfX) collaboration between R&D and suppliers, promoting innovation and high-quality product design.

• Ensures Critical to Quality (CtQ) characteristics are effectively communicated to suppliers and rigorously maintained throughout the production process.

• Negotiating Supplier Quality Agreements, performing defect analysis to determine supplier responsibility, and acting as an independent reviewer for Supplier Corrective Action Requests.

• Be sure to speak to your recruiter about all the benefits on offer.

How we work together

• We believe that we are better together than apart. For this role, this means working in-person at least 3 days per week at our Farnborough, Hampshire office.

You’re right for this role if you have:

• A Bachelor's/ Master's Degree in Engineering Science, Supply Chain Management, Electrical Engineering, Electronic Engineering or equivalent.

• Relevant experience in areas such as Quality Engineering, Safety Engineering, Process Engineering, Continuous Improvement Techniques or equivalent, gained ideally within the Medical Device industry, but if not a similar regulated sector (Aerospace, Pharmaceutical, Defence, Automotive).

• Managed Supplier Quality Management within a contract manufacturer

• Knowledge of Quality Management Procedures and Methodologies including CAPA, SCAR etc

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