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Supplier Quality Engineer

Your Responsibilities

As a Supplier Quality Engineer for John Deere Dubuque Works located in Dubuque, IA, you will:

• Support daily build operations at the factory by enabling the production team. 
• Resolve and prevent customer experience/warranty issues and as delivered quality issues by collaborating with suppliers and product line personnel to drive supplier improvement activities.
• Lead and facilitate meetings with suppliers; Design Reviews; Design, Process, and Assembly Reviews (DPARs); Design and Process Failure Modes and Effects Analysis (D&PFMEAs); audit Production Part Approval Process (PPAPs); manage NCCA issues and CARs.
• Ensure robust execution of Return Goods Authorization (RGAs); Supplier Change Requests (SCRs); quality plans, and supplier improvement activities as required.
• Work closely with Design Engineering and Supply Management to ensure that all requirements are adequately documented and assigned suppliers

VISA sponsorship is NOT available for this position.

What Skills You Need

• 2 or more years of experience working in or with a manufacturing or assembly environment.
• Demonstrated ability to lead and document containment, root cause corrective action, and complex machine/material disposition.
• Knowledge of drawing and schematic interpretation, product models, geometric dimensioning and tolerancing
• Experience utilizing standard quality tools, (Such as: FMEA, DPAR's, and PPAP's)
• Experience in project management and problem solving to rapidly respond to quality issues
• Effective communication (both verbal & written) with the ability to lead difficult discussions with all levels of the organization

What Makes You Stand Out

• 2 or more years of experience with designing, testing, integrating, manufacturing or assembling components.
• A self-starter, self-motivated, positive attitude as well as able to identify projects and priorities with minimal supervision
• Experience with quality tools (such as Six Sigma, Supplier Change Requests, Quality Plans, NCCA, Project Doc, Root Cause Analysis, etc.)
• Experience developing and improving local and international suppliers to drive robust product, processes, and controls
• Hands on audit experience (JDS-G223, Process Verification Audits, Special Process Audits, etc.)
• Experience with Control Plans, Statistical Process Control (SPC), Pareto analysis, Gage Repeatability and Reproducibility (GR&R) and Geometric Dimensioning and Tolerance (GD&T)
• 2 or more years of experience in one of the following areas: Design, Product Validation, Manufacturing, or Quality

Education

Ideally you will have a degree or equivalent related work experience in the following:

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering or Engineering Technology (Mechanical or Electrical Engineering degrees are preferred)