Job Description

Supplier Quality Professional - North Dublin.

Ref No: DT18033

County Dublin, Republic of Ireland

Competitive salary

Supplier Quality Professional - North Dublin.

The Supplier Quality team works cross-functionally with engineering, production, and procurement with responsibilities focused on maintaining a high level of delivered quality parts from suppliers. The role includes onboarding new suppliers and supporting existing suppliers to deliver high quality parts, conducting supplier audit across the supply base in Europe, reviewing supplier performance and driving continuous improvements with suppliers through supplier performance reviews.

The successful applicant will be a member of the site Quality team, collectively responsible for maintaining and improving quality & compliance in the manufacture and support of products and services. This role is responsible for a key support activity on site supporting the supplier quality management services within an ISO 13485 and FDA 21 CFR Part 820 regulatory environment.

Core Responsibilities:

· To develop world-class supply chain processes to suit a high complexity multi-technology environment.

· To manage suppliers to deliver quality product to internal customers, through product & process investigations & evaluations.

· Liaising with a wide variety of external suppliers to ensure suppliers are trained and adhere to First Articles, Quality and Regulatory requirements.

· Develop strong value-added ties with the customer base.

· Issuing of Supplier Corrective Action Reports and working with suppliers on Root Cause Investigations and Corrective action.

· Conducting Supplier Performance Reviews and reporting of Key Supplier Quality metrics.

· To support technology transfer initiatives and new projects. Involving the assessment and selection of new suppliers where applicable.

· To provide day to day inspection expertise support to the Purchased Material Inspection Department (PMI) in the areas of Component and Mechatronic Inspection and acting as a technical reference to interface with the supplier.

· To contribute to the continuous development of the quality system, including standard operating procedures (SOP's) coupled with the ability to write concise technical reports.

· Support a strong supplier focus to ensure that requirements are met appropriately and oversee relevant KPIs for supplier quality oversight.

· Working with external functional quality and supplier management groups.

· Utilising and developing digitalisation tools to identify areas for improvement and to streamline quality reports.

Interested applicants should have:

· At least 3 years' relevant experience.

· Minimum of a third level qualification (Diploma/Degree) in an appropriate discipline (Quality Management, Mechatronics, Electronics or Mechanical Engineering).

· Experience in leading and being a part of teams and projects with strong communications written and verbal. Ability to work in technically complex multi-discipline areas across the whole supply chain, including the supplier environment