Supplier Quality Engineer

We, at Leggett & Platt Inc., are searching for a Supplier Quality Engineer within our Quality team to help support our Aerospace business. At L&P Aerospace, we specialize in creating complex tube and duct assemblies using high-performance materials capable of withstanding extreme pressure, temperature, and chemical interactions. How high are our quality standards, you ask? So much so, that we have products on-board the Space Launch System with NASA, as well as the F-15 and F-35 fighter jets! If you join our team, your work will ensure families across the world fly a little safer, wherever their travels may take them.

The Supplier Quality Engineer (SQE) is a critical role within the business, responsible for ensuring that suppliers meet the company’s quality standards, by implementing robust quality processes and supplier audit plan driven by a risk-based approach using analysis of supplier data of product non-conformance and product criticality.

Core Responsibilities

• Manage supplier quality management process.
• Maintain and develop supplier quality management process to ISO9001, AS9100, NADCAP and other aerospace and customer specific requirements.
• Maintain and develop a comprehensive supplier audit structure with clear audit schedule and audit performance.
• Define and lead supplier corrective action process, with reporting system to control and improve supplier quality throughout the business through audit nonconformance and internally identified product nonconformance.
• Provides training and mentoring of others within the business to conduct supplier audit.
• Supports quality assurance with internal auditing.
• Implements requirements within incoming inspection, for improved robust purchased part inspection.
• Maintains process for containment coordination to manage containment of purchased product.
• Maintain, develop, and improve processes and procedures ensuring they meet the current and future needs of the business.
• Supporting Quality Assurance tasks as required.
• Leads team-based problem-solving projects for root cause analysis, corrective & preventive actions for process, product, customer and supplier concerns.

Role Specifications

Required Skills:

• The role requires good communication skills, attention to detail and the ability to analyse and solve complex problems. The SQE plays a critical role in ensuring that the company’s products are of the highest quality and meet expectations.
• Strong interpersonal, verbal, and written communication skills to drive tasks to completion.
• Use of Microsoft office applications such as excel, word.
• ISO 9001; AS9100 qualified auditor with experience of conducting quality audits and developing/mentoring other internal auditors.
• Extensive experience with QMS development, application, and maintenance to ISO 9001; AS9100 essential.
• Experience working with First Article Inspection Reports (FAIR’s)
• Ability to select and use applicable methods, procedures, and standards to meet targets.
• Experience in problem solving/8D methodology and dealing with customer returns and complaints.
• Solid analytical skills and judgment to proactively identify and solve increasingly complex problems.
• Strong attention to detail, good organizational skills and the ability to prioritize with changing situations.

Desirable Skills:

• Lead auditor trained.
• Experience working alongside NADCAP Welding & NDT requirements.
• Experience working with PPAP’s and APQP.
• Experience of working within or implementing requirements of AS13100.

Education: 

Post-Secondary degree or equivalent combination of relevant education and work experience that will allow successful performance of job expectation.

What to Do Next

Now that you’ve had a chance to learn more about us, what are you waiting for! Apply today and allow us the opportunity to learn more about you and the value you can bring to our team. Once you apply, be sure to create a profile, and sign up for job alerts, so you can be the first to know when new opportunities become available. If you require assistance completing an application, please contact our team at careers@leggett.com

Our Values

Our values speak to our shared beliefs, and describe how we approach working together.

• Put People First reflects our commitment to safety and care of each other, learning and development, and creating an inclusive environment of mutual respect, empathy and belonging.
• Do the Right Thing focuses us on acting with honesty and integrity, delivering the results the right way, taking pride in our work, and speaking the truth – good or bad.
• Do Great Work…Together occurs when we engage without hierarchy, collaborate as a team, embrace challenges, and work for the good of all of us.
• Take Ownership and Raise the Bar demonstrates our responsibility to add value and make a difference, challenge the status quo and biases to make things better, foster innovative and creative solutions to drive impact, and explore new perspectives and embrace change.

Our Commitment to You

We're actively taking steps to make sure our culture is inclusive and that our processes and practices promote equity for all. Leggett & Platt is comprised of people of all abilities, gender identities and expressions, ages, ethnicities, sexual orientations, veteran status, and more. Join us!

We welcome and encourage applications if you meet the minimum qualifications. Even if you do not meet the preferred qualifications, we’d love the opportunity to consider you.

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