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**DESCRIPTION**

The Senior Supplier Quality Engineer utlizes strong quality and technical skills to develop suppliers and products that can meet customer requirements; requires strong partnerships with the external supply base, with supply chain teams and with engineering to achieve results

Build strong relationships with all critical partners to improve quality and business outcomes, including: external suppliers, external customers, and internal customers and stakeholders, such as Purchasing, Manufacturing and Engineering.

Support the cross-functional supplier selection process for any given component.

Collaborates with external suppliers to validate that the manufacturing process is designed in a manner that enables conformance to the engineering print, engineering standards and customer specific requirements

Embrace continuous improvement in the external supply base by contributing to product and process focused projects that utilize industry proven methodologies, such as lean and six-sigma.

Conduct external supplier audits in support of supplier risk mitigation, supplier readiness, and supplier performance improvement.

Support quality improvement plans within the external supply base in order to improve supplier performance

Ensure resolution of external supplier related quality challenges, by leading root cause analysis, by supporting development of corrective actions and by verifying the effectiveness of corrective actions.

**QUALIFICATIONS**

**Skills**

Customer focus - Building strong customer relationships and delivering customer-centric solutions.

Communicates effectively - Developing and delivering multi-mode communications that convey a clear understanding of the unique needs of different audiences.

Quality Influence - Ability to recognize stakeholders, create a forum to professionally extract stakeholder perspectives, drive and engage in constructive conflict, and to influence outcomes in order to ensure Cummins makes a balanced decision inclusive of Quality priorities.

Statistical Foundations - Applies statistical tools and technique to influence decision making; leverages understanding of data collection methods, key statistics, graphical and analytical methods to describe process performance, gain insights and drive improvement action

Problem Solving - Solves problems using a systematic analysis process by leveraging industry standard methodologies to create problem traceability and protect the customer; determines the assignable cause; implements robust, data-based solutions; identifies the systemic root causes and recommended actions to prevent problem reoccurrence.

Supplier Performance Improvement - Improving supplier performance by developing and executing an effective quality improvement strategy that consists of a project team, glidepath, reduction of manufacturing issues and improvement of systemic deficiencies.

Supplier Product Reliability - Ability to evaluate the supplier's product design, supplier's manufacturing process design and product validation process to ensure the supplier is capable to meet reliability expectations.

**Education, Licenses, Certifications**

This position may require licensing for compliance with export controls or sanctions regulations.

**Experience**

Preferably, a minimum of 3 years experience in a Manufacturing or Engineering role in the automotive industry, or a similarly regulated industry.

Key role in the analysis of parts coming back from field as part of a customer none conformity.

Is involved in the decision making process for the next step - send back to supplier, analyze and test inhouse, is a known root cause etc.

Is a key person in supplier and customer communication.

Does work with the customer service team to drive solutions to customer none conformities.

Has a strong relationship to inhouse testing and plant quality team.

**Job** Quality

**Organization** Cummins Inc.

**Role Category**

**Job Type** Exempt - Experienced

**ReqID** 240005NY

**Relocation Package** No