Description
The Supplier Quality Engineer supports supplier quality initiatives that enable the business to achieve operational and strategic quality objectives. This role collaborates with suppliers and cross-functional teams to improve manufacturing processes, ensure compliance with quality standards, support new product introduction through Advanced Product Quality Planning (APQP), and drive continuous improvement across the supply base. The role is responsible for supplier quality planning, process validation, supplier performance improvement, problem resolution, and Production Part Approval Process (PPAP) activities to ensure products consistently meet customer and regulatory requirements.
Key Responsibilities
- Build and maintain robust relationships with suppliers, customers, and cross-functional stakeholders including Purchasing, Manufacturing, Engineering, Sourcing, and Quality to improve supplier quality and business performance.
- Support supplier quality planning activities using Advanced Product Quality Planning (APQP), AIAG core tools, and Cummins quality methodologies.




- Participate in supplier audits and quality assessments, identify improvement opportunities, and support corrective and preventive actions to improve supplier processes and quality systems.
- Investigate supplier quality issues using structured problem-solving methodologies, perform root cause analysis, verify corrective actions, and ensure sustainable resolution.
- Drive supplier performance improvement initiatives through continuous improvement methodologies such as Lean and Six Sigma.
- Review, evaluate, and disposition Production Part Approval Process (PPAP) submissions, including approval, interim approval, or rejection for assigned product categories.
- Coordinate with suppliers, Supplier Quality Engineers, sourcing teams, and change managers to obtain complete PPAP documentation and resolve documentation gaps or non-conformances.
- Monitor interim approvals, ensure timely closur

📌 Supplier Quality Engineer (Pune)
🏢 Cummins
📍 Pune