Location: West Point, GA
Employment Type: Full-time, direct hire
About the Client
Our client is an established automotive manufacturing company with a strong focus on supplier quality, reliability, and continuous improvement.
Position Summary
The Supplier Quality Specialist is responsible for monitoring and improving supplier part quality to ensure components meet customer and manufacturing requirements. This role works closely with suppliers, purchasing, engineering, and internal quality teams to investigate defects, implement corrective actions, reduce quality costs, and prevent recurring issues.
Key Responsibilities
- Monitor supplier part quality, analyze trends, and drive corrective and preventive actions to resolve quality issues.
- Lead supplier corrective action requests and coordinate timely resolution of internal and external customer complaints.
- Conduct and support supplier audits, process audits, and quality management system activities.
- Review supplier performance data, quality reports, field claims, and customer feedback to identify improvement opportunities.
- Verify supplier documentation, including Initial Sample Inspection Reports (ISIRs), and track engineering changes through implementation and validation.
- Coordinate transmission testing, including shift quality, noise evaluation, and durability testing, in accordance with customer requirements.
- Collaborate with suppliers, purchasing, engineering, and internal quality teams to resolve part defects and improve product reliability.
- Maintain quality procedures, support internal and external audits, and provide training on quality processes and work instructions.
- Prepare supplier quality performance reports and communicate findings and improvement plans to management.