Supplier Quality Engineer with Pall Water - Remote

Combined with decades of experience and thousands of installations, Pall Water is known globally as a provider of high-quality systems designed to tackle the most complex water treatment challenges, simply and reliably. Pall Water is a global leader in filtration, separation, and purification technologies. Our trusted water treatment solutions ensure the continual supply of safe and reliable water for municipalities and industries. With more than two billion gallons of installed capacity spanning six continents, we are a leader in membrane-based water treatment solutions. www.pallwater.com 

As a part of Trojan Technologies, Pall Water is proud to be one of Danaher's Water Quality companies. Motivated by the highest possible stakes of climate change and global health, we’re working together within a rapidly digitizing industry to find innovative technologies that guarantee the safety of our water and our environment. 

The Supplier Quality Engineer assures the quality of processes and products by performing audits, inspections, tests, defect analysis, trend analysis, programming & troubleshooting inspection equipment, calibration maintenance, and reporting on results of measurement standards. They will also assure consistent quality of suppliers and production by validating processes; providing documentation from measurement analysis, and helping departments understand the interpretation of collected data.
 

Supplier Quality Engineering (80%)

• Collect and evaluate supplier quality data to identify process improvement opportunities within the supply chain.
• Working with the supplier directly, create corrective action plans to address process failures.
• Review supplier manufacturing processes, collaborate with suppliers on process improvement and value enhancement opportunities.
• Conduct quality inspection at supplier site as per PW Inspection Test Plan (ITP).
• Regularly communicate with Engineering and Supply Chain internally to identify opportunities for quality and productivity improvement.
• Collect and maintain supplier performance metrics.
• Coordinate with Technical Support, Engineering, Manufacturing and Technical Support to ensure awareness to known purchased part or product quality issues.
• Manage and administer contract source inspectors and services.
• Provide quality support to America’s region team (Operations, Engineering, Supply Chain, Customer Service, Sales and Field Service) with focus on compliance with ISO9001:2015
• Effectively lead resolution/problem solving to external Customer Complaints (CC´s) and internal Non-Conformances (NC´s), ensuring standard work has been followed, root causes are clearly defined, communicated and corrective actions are implemented and sustained
• Manage 3rd Party QA Inspection agencies to perform supplier inspections according to Pall Water Inspection Test Plans (ITP´s), including ITP reports
• Responsible for supplier quality audits and for establishing problem solving activities to find root causes and implement effective countermeasures
• Complete all required Quality Assurance tasks to onboard new suppliers
• Responsible for quality data analysis, trending, root cause investigation and driving to implementation of countermeasures.
• Responsible for presenting quality data analysis to support daily management and management reporting

Quality Management System Standard Work Responsibility (20%)

• Subject matter expert on organization’s Electronic Document Management System (EDMS) workflow and other Pall Water systems (as required)
• Ensure proper quality of the content of documentation and records and ensure that controlled documents adhere to applicable ISO standards and applicable regulations
• Maintain required QMS training records as per ISO standards and applicable regulations
• Continually improve the QMS processes while ensuring that ISO standards and applicable regulations are met
• Maintain VM/DM related to QMS standard work, as required
• Apply problem solving and strategic thinking to troubleshooting efforts that support department objectives
• Provide feedback and continuous improvement suggestions
• Travel to suppliers and job-site in North America – 35 - 40%

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering
• Minimum of 4-5 years’ experience in supplier quality engineering in an ISO certified industry:
• Experience in Quality Management System and ISO9001:2015
• Proven experience with statistical data analysis
• ASQ Certification preferred
• Must be able to meet the travel requirement of the role.
• Use an analytical approach to problem solving

When you join us, you’ll also be joining Danaher’s global organization, where 80,000 people wake up every day determined to help our customers win. As an associate, you’ll try new things, work hard, and advance your skills with guidance from dedicated leaders, all with the support of powerful Danaher Business System tools and the stability of a tested organization.

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