Supplier Purchasing Engineer

Job Overview

• Duties for the role Manages all suppliers for the company maintains all regulations and requirements.
• Creating and updating a supplier database with updated records of performance.
• Reviewing guidelines for product assembly and ensuring all materials and resources are available.
• Overseeing the ordering of this product.
• This process might involve sourcing materials and choosing between multiple vendor options, ensuring best quality and service is received and we are getting best value.

3 Key Goals

• Improve supplier retention
• Enhance risk mitigation
• Implement environmental and sustainability practices

Responsibilities

• Responsible for selecting suppliers, monitoring supplier performance, developing a good supplier base, maintaining a good supplier relationship. Traffic light risk register
• Be able to demonstrate the knowledge of the supply chain gained to support our in supplier selection.
• New Product Introduction in the supply chain. You will work closely with a multi-functional team to try to avoid failures, issues and unnecessary costs.
• Ensuring compliance of products and project related documentation within the UK Supply Quality
• Organisation and ensures adherence to Company procedures/work instructions/specifications, key responsibilities will include.
• Work with Engineering (Design and Manufacturing Engineers) team to define process parameters and criteria to ensure supplier process capability is effective to meet product and process requirements
• Lead the supplier approval process by assessing manufacturing/technology capabilities and Health, Safety and Environmental risks.
• Provide concise, complete and accurate documentation of inspection results relative to area of
• responsibility. In appropriate functional areas, this refers to supporting inspection and test status
• requirements defined by regulations, engineering product specifications or Control Plans,
• Production Part Approval Process (PPAP) approval or product warrant submission.
• Facilitate root cause analysis and corrective actions of supplier quality issues.
• Perform on-site supplier visits for root cause analysis and verification of correction actions of supplier quality issues.
• Collate and evaluate supplier quality data to identify process improvement opportunities within the supply chain.

Qualifications and Experience

• Relevant business/commercial or manufacturing/engineering degree preferred, or HNC, or equivalent NVQ level 4 qualification.
• Excellent analytical skills and technical skills with strong attention to detail
• Excellent communication skills
• Exceptional problem-solving skills
• Keen eye for supply quality control
• Knowledge of Quality Systems and Measure Tools and techniques.
• Strong knowledge of Advanced Quality Planning (APQP), Failure Mode and Effect Analysis (FMEA)
• Understand engineering drawings (electrical and mechanical) and manufacturing processes.
• Be able to present data effectively.
• CIPS qualification desirable