About this role
As a Supplier Quality and Reliability engineer, you will be the member of Solidigm's Validation, Quality, and Reliability organization, responsible for addressing supplier related quality events.
Responsibilities
- Responsible as the key contact between operations, suppliers, and the customer, ensuring that overall specifications, quality/regulatory requirements, and expectations are met for all purchased product.
- Define audits and surveys to ensure that all suppliers are meeting Solidigm business requirements and quality standards.
- Ability to execute supplier audit activities related to both validation and on-going management of quality execution capabilities.
- Supplier Performance Management and Development
- Monitoring, report and support of supplier quality metrics and performance. Responsible for supporting supplier corrective action and continuous improvement activities.
- Support Solidigm managed factories on incoming inspection, problem part resolution through all phases of operations.
- Support alternative supplier selection. Participates in customer-facing supplier quality activities.
- Ensure supplier has proper Quality Management Systems through metrics, auditing, etc.
- Responsible for providing engineering support for all applicable areas of Quality Assurance.
- Primary contact between Solidigm and suppliers. Responsible for supplier periodic supplier feedback.
- Responsible for supplier qualification/disqualification.
- Initiate and follow up on supplier Failure Analysis requests with suppliers.
Minimum qualifications
(Mechanical focused Supplier QRE)
- BS degree in engineering or related field
- 5+ years of experience in mechanical manufacturing, supplier quality, or reliability engineering.
- Strong knowledge of key mechanical manufacturing processes, such as CNC machining, die casting, extrusion, stamping, injection molding, plating/anodizing, coating, and mechanical assembly.
- Strong understanding of mechanical quality and reliability failure modes, cosmetic defects, manufacturing risks, and root-cause analysis.
- Experience in mechanical component qualification/NPI, including drawing/specification review, CTQ/CTF definition, qualification planning, and production release.
- Good knowledge of dimensional/metrology requirements and quality tools, including SPC, Cp/Cpk, MSA/GR&R, PFMEA, and Control Plan.
- Experience managing supplier quality excursions, including containment, 8D/RCA/5-Why, CAPA, MRB, and corrective-action effectiveness validation.
- Experience with supplier change/PCN management, including risk assessment and requalification for material, tooling, process, equipment, location, and sub-tier changes.
- Hands-on experience conducting supplier quality-system/process audits, supplier qualification, and supplier improvement programs.
- Ability to monitor and drive improvement of supplier quality performance, including yield, defect, escape, and recurring issue reduction.
- Strong problem-solving, communication, and cross-functional leadership skills, with the ability to independently drive supplier issues from containment through verified closure.
Preferred qualifications
- Experience supporting mechanical components for SSD, server, data center, computing, or other high-reliability electronic products.
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