Job Summary

Role Definition: Assesses the supplier quality and ensures that all the products are free from defects and are in compliance with manufacturing specifications and legal standards.

Responsibilities

- Ensuring the quality of supplies by conducting tests and assessments on incoming supplies to identify any quality issues; Developing supplier inspection, testing, and evaluation mechanism.
- Generating reports on supplier quality, by monitoring their defect rates and areas that can lead to potential flaws; Guiding suppliers to reduce these defect rates.
- Researching the potential vendors, assessing their manufacturing setting, practices, and procedures; Conducting supplier quality control audits to ensure compliance with organizational and federal policies and standards.
- Supporting suppliers in improving their performance through process enhancements, implementing process controls, and developing quality assurance plans.

Requirements

- Degree or equivalent experience desired
- This position requires working onsite five days a week.

Skills

- Effective Communications: Understanding of effective communication concepts, tools and techniques; ability to effectively transmit, receive, and accurately interpret ideas, information, and needs through the application of appropriate communication behaviors.
- Level Working Knowledge: Delivers helpful feedback that focuses on behaviors without offending the recipient.
- Level Working Knowledge: Listens to feedback without defensiveness and uses it for own communication effectiveness.
- Level Working Knowledge: Makes oral presentations and writes reports needed for own work.
- Level Working Knowledge: Avoids technical jargon when inappropriate.
- Level Working Knowledge: Looks for and considers non-verbal cues from individuals and groups.
- Problem Solving: Knowledge of approaches, tools, techniques for recognizing, anticipating, and resolving organizational, operational or process problems; ability to apply knowledge of problem solving appropriately to diverse situations.
- Level Working Knowledge: Identifies and documents specific problems and resolution alternatives.
- Level Working Knowledge: Examines a specific problem and understands the perspective of each involved stakeholder.
- Level Working Knowledge: Develops alternative techniques for assessing accuracy and relevance of information.
- Level Working Knowledge: Helps to analyze risks and benefits of alternative approaches and obtain decision on resolution.
- Level Working Knowledge: Uses fact-finding techniques and diagnostic tools to identify problems.
- Process Improvement:



Understanding and insight into evaluating current product quality and production methods and ability to maintains focus on the continuous improvement of processes, products and services.
- Level Working Knowledge: Defines the critical workflow for executing key processes.
- Level Working Knowledge: Identifies process problems that limit performance.
- Level Working Knowledge: Implements methods for improving and establishing controls for critical processes.
- Level Working Knowledge: Focuses on the most significant problems to maximize efficiency gains.
- Level Working Knowledge: Surfaces systemic problems to be addressed at the organizational level.
- Quality Orientation: Knowledge of quality management methods, tools, and techniques; ability to create and support an environment that meets the quality goals of the organization.
- Level Working Knowledge: Confronts root causes of problems wherever they exist.
- Level Working Knowledge: Eliminates unnecessary work and all non value-added activities.
- Level Working Knowledge: Uses objective quality criteria and data to drive decisions.
- Level Working Knowledge: Documents learnings regarding quality outcomes so that the data can be used for improvement.
- Level Working Knowledge: Surfaces quality problems whose root causes fall outside the groups responsibility.
- Production Part Approval Process (PPAP): Knowledge of Production Part Approval Processes (PPAP) elements, submissions, and objectives; ability to determine whether a supplier can manufacture products that meet the quality requirements and standards of their customers consistently.
- Level Extensive Experience: Develops testing and validation procedures to test the quality of manufactured parts/products so that it meets desired customer standards.
- Level Extensive Experience: Identifies and resolves key issues with PPAP implementation and submissions.
- Level Extensive Experience: Monitors the execution of PPAP steps within a facility and ensures their compliance with industry standards and internal guidelines.
- Level Extensive Experience: Oversees PPAP implementation; establishes a high trust relationship between stakeholders.
- Level Extensive Experience: Reviews the complex documentation and elements required during the PPAP submission process.
- Level Extensive Experience: Trains others on the execution of PPAP to get the required approvals and teaches them about the different PPAP submission levels.




- Manufacturing Standards, Procedures and Policies: Knowledge of organizational standards, procedures and policies in manufacturing activities; ability to plan, guide, and monitor manufacturing processes for compliance.
- Level Working Knowledge: Contributes to the development and implementation of specific manufacturing procedures.
- Level Working Knowledge: Investigates the need to refer potential exceptions upward for review and approval.
- Level Working Knowledge: Explains the rationale for procedures and standards in own area of responsibility.
- Level Working Knowledge: Participates in the implementation of manufacturing standards and procedures to ones own function.
- Level Working Knowledge: Provides feedback for improvement of procedures.
- Supplier Management - MFG: Knowledge of processes and methods to effectively manage business relationships and transactions with suppliers of raw materials or product components; ability to apply related knowledge, experience and skills into real practice.
- Level Extensive Experience: Facilitates supplier partnering arrangements that share risk and reward.
- Level Extensive Experience: Monitors supplier performance; works to resolve discrepancies between performance and agreements.
- Level Extensive Experience: Develops quality standards and controls for suppliers.
- Level Extensive Experience: Builds and maintains partnerships with multiple and/or large suppliers.
- Level Extensive Experience: Evaluates issues and terminates supplier relationships as appropriate; works with legal departments.
- Level Extensive Experience: Ensures the fulfillment of report and record-keeping requirements.
- Supplier Evaluations and Certification: Knowledge of supplier evaluations and certification; ability to identify the methods, tools and documentation for evaluating, selecting and certifying vendors, suppliers and partners.
- Level Working Knowledge: Documents and pursues results of reference calls or other sources for a specific supplier.
- Level Working Knowledge: Participates in selecting and certifying a specific supplier and/or product.
- Level Working Knowledge: Assists with the steps and procedures for supplier certification.
- Level Working Knowledge: Researches several types of sources of information for a suppliers or a products reputation.
- Level Working Knowledge: Assesses a product or service using pre-defined evaluation criteria.

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📌 Supplier Development Engineer (Chennai)
🏢 Caterpillar
📍 Chennai