About This Role
This Supplier Quality Engineer role ensures that externally sourced products, private-label (PBL) suppliers, and supplier-led launches meet TE Connectivity's specifications, customer requirements, quality standards, and launch-readiness expectations. The role involves managing PBL supplier quality from end-to-end and partnering with Engineering for advanced quality and engineering launch readiness.
Responsibilities
- Own PBL supplier quality performance for assigned suppliers, product families, and externally sourced components from onboarding through sustaining production
- Drive supplier launch readiness including technical capability review, manufacturing process assessment, validation evidence, PPAP/APQP-equivalent packages, FMEA/control-plan review, and readiness gates
- Partner with Engineering to translate product requirements, drawings/specifications, CTQs, and validation needs into supplier-executable quality requirements before release
- Lead supplier assessment, onboarding, qualification, and extensions for new suppliers, lifecycle suppliers, and transferred product lines
- Coordinate supplier process audits, capability reviews, part approval, incoming quality readiness, and release criteria before product or supplier release
- Monitor supplier quality KPIs including defects, complaints, repeat issues, audit findings, corrective action quality, responsiveness, and cost of poor quality
- Drive containment, 8D/root cause analysis, corrective action closure, lesson-learned deployment, and recurrence prevention with suppliers
- Lead supplier quality escalation for quality crises, repeated non-conformance, poor responsiveness, or weak corrective action
- Operate as the quality bridge between Engineering, Sourcing, Manufacturing Quality, Plant Operations, Product Management, and suppliers
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Quality, Manufacturing, Supply Chain, or related technical discipline
- 8 or more years of experience in supplier quality, advanced quality, manufacturing quality, quality engineering, supplier development, or technical operations
- Strong knowledge of supplier qualification, process audits, root cause analysis, 8D, containment, corrective action, incoming inspection, and quality systems
- Working knowledge of NPI launch quality methods such as APQP, PPAP or equivalent validation evidence, FMEA, control plans, and readiness gates
- Ability to support Engineering by translating product requirements and technical risks into supplier quality plans and launch-readiness deliverables
- Experience with SAP, supplier portals, complaint systems, supplier scorecards, PPAP/APQP, FMEA, control plans, and statistical quality tools
- Excellent communication, planning, time management, and technical writing skills with the ability to convert quality issues into concise business-risk updates
