Supplier Quality Engineer (EV Manufacturing)

Acara Solutions has an onsite Casa Grande, AZ contract opening for a Supplier Quality Engineer with our EV manufacturing client.

Pay: $60.71 / hr.

Length: Contract (~4 months).

• This role demands technical expertise and soft skills to provide 24/7 support, promptly resolve supplier quality issues, and ensure seamless transition of new products into mass production.
• The SQE will be responsible for cradle-to-grave mass production supplier management, ensuring best-in-class supplier quality, and safeguarding manufacturing operations by working closely with Manufacturing, Plant Quality, Material Planning, Logistics, NPI teams, and external suppliers.
• As an Individual Contributor: Provide 24/7 Supplier Quality Support by continuously addressing and resolving supplier quality issues, ensuring the highest standards in EV production.
• Take cradle-to-grave responsibility for assigned mass production suppliers, including managing supplier scorecards and performance evaluations.
• As People Manager: Oversee commodity SQEs, leading and managing priorities and project assignments for all team members.
• Ensure comprehensive 24/7 supplier quality coverage for systems and subsystems within the plant.
• Problem Solving and Troubleshooting: Swiftly identify, analyze, and resolve supplier-related quality issues to protect plant operations.
• Implement root cause analysis and permanent countermeasures to prevent recurrence.
• Team Collaboration: Work closely with Manufacturing, Plant Quality, Material Planning, Logistics, NPI teams, and suppliers to develop robust solutions that protect plant operations and drive product quality.
• Supplier Relationship Management: Maintain strong relationships with suppliers, ensuring open communication and collaboration to achieve mutual quality objectives.
• Support New Product Build Events: Collaborate with Advanced SIEs and Program teams during new product build events, ensuring a seamless transition into mass production while maintaining quality standards.
• Lessons Learned: Streamline lessons learned between programs in mass production.
• Supplier Audits: Perform supplier assessments, audits, and site inspections; develop process improvement plans and drive implementation; monitor and maintain performance metrics.
• Be the voice of your commodity supplier quality team by generating regular reports for senior management, highlighting SQEs/Supplier performance, OKRs-Goals-KPIs, risks, and strategies for improvement.

About Acara Solutions

Acara is a premier recruiting and workforce solutions provider-we help companies attract and retain top talent. With a legacy of experience across industries worldwide, we partner with clients, listen to their needs, and customise visionary talent solutions that drive the business outcomes they seek. We leverage decades of experience to deliver comprehensive staffing solutions, including contingent staffing, direct placement, executive search, and workforce services, worldwide.

• Bachelor's Degree
• Minimum 8 years of Supplier Quality Engineering experience with extensive plant floor experience, including exposure to exterior commodity components like glass, closures, plastics, stampings, metal trims, Class-A finishes, and assembly processes.
• Minimum 3 years of experience in managing Plant SQEs and Technicians

• Master's Degree.
• Be able to work independently and make decisions in the best interest of the client and its business.
• Hands-on expertise in utilizing quality assurance practices and methodologies such as 8D, 5 Whys, and Fishbone diagrams for prompt and effective resolution of quality issues.
• Clear and effective communication abilities, ensuring quality issues and solutions are well-articulated to both internal teams and external suppliers.
• Ability to read and interpret schematics and drawings and in-depth knowledge of quality standards and specifications in the area of placement.
• Excellent analytical abilities, technical writing ability, and comprehensive understanding of quality toolbox (IATF 16949, APQP, PPAP, SPC, MSA, FMEA, DOE, DFM/A, GD&T).
• Certification preferred - American Society for Quality, Six Sigma Black Belt.
• Team player with strong interpersonal skills, hands-on and data-driven, creative mindset in problem-solving.
• Positive attitude, willingness to learn, be part of the solution, and be able to adapt to the dynamic working environment.
• Advanced skills in Microsoft Excel, Word, and PowerPoint. Working knowledge of Smartsheet, JMP, Minitab, JIRA, and Tableau.
• Demonstrating good leadership and team-building skills.

Additional Information:

• Upon offer of employment, the individual will be subject to a background check and a drug screen.
• In compliance with federal law, all persons hired will be required to verify identity and eligibility to work in the United States and to complete the required employment eligibility verification form upon hire.
• Have the ability to travel 25-75% on average on a short-term or long-term basis to client Motors and supplier sites globally on short notice.