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*career area*:purchasing & procurement*:*build a career—or three or four different ones.
*wherever your passion lies—chemical, electrical, material, mechanical, metallurgical and more—you'll find a home here.
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we encourage you to explore different facets of engineering or move into roles in marketing, production, analytics or other areas of the company.
our rotational program exposes participants to as many as five different experiences in just 12 to 18 months.
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*job purpose*:this role is fundamentally managing supply network related activities focused on in-coming supplier quality responding to the daily quality issues found in the manufacturing facility.
a sense of urgency is vital.
ensure zero defect material and services flow for the facility from source to dock and additional required points.
the objective is to ensure manufacturing operations can continue without a detrimental impact caused by a supplier quality issue.
from the initial concern the snqe will confirm the problem and determine a short-term action plan with the facility management and the supplier.
the objective being to ensure the manufacturing operations can continue operations without a detrimental impact to the process from a quality perspective.
in conclusion the job manages the corrective action process on supplier related quality issues.
deliver global leverage with local service excellence.
*job related statistics*:active parts numbers: 2000duns suppliers managed: 75number of shipments/receipts coming to facility: 15kbusiness partner impact: facility widecategory difficulty: localprocess difficulty: moderately complex*job duties*:major role: - accountable for operating and monitoring the global supply network, as designed, to meet the defined quality targets enabling optimal and efficient facility operations, collaborating with business partners and suppliers as the relationship manager for all gsnd, and resolving facility specific supplier quality issues.
from the initial concern, the supply network quality engineer will identify, contain and ultimately eliminate the defect.
skills that will be required include root-cause-corrective-action analysis (rcca), 8d, rework and containment plans, and strong communication and collaboration with suppliers