Senior Supplier Quality Engineer - Chassis, Vehicle Dynamics, and Metals

Job description

Transport is at the core of modern society. Imagine using your expertise to shape sustainable transport solutions for the future? If you seek to make a difference on a global scale, working with next-gen technologies and the sharpest collaborative teams, then we could be a perfect match. 

Volvo Group Purchasing is a team of changemakers that thrive in a fast-paced and exciting business environment. We are a truly global team with real passion for innovation, sustainability, and people, and where lifelong learning is an essential part of our culture. With our ecosystem of supply partners, we shape the world we want to live in and deliver value to our customers, society, and the Volvo Group.

Our Offer To You

Volvo Group offers the opportunity to work in a dynamic and team-focused environment in a company that is well known for its state-of-the-art company culture and benefits. Our culture is about how we interact with each other, our customers, and with society as a whole. It helps us to achieve our business objectives, is firmly rooted in our history, and is critical to our company’s long-term success. It is the foundation on which everything else is built.

Volvo Group is defined by a set of five carefully chosen values, which include Customer Success, Trust, Passion, Change, and Performance. These values are a major force in guiding our day-to-day behavior and drive our decision making at all levels of the organization. Our values are easy to understand, and yet fundamentally important. They express our shared beliefs across countries and entities to form the basis for a high-performing culture that can help maximize the full potential of the organization.

To work with us is to work with some of the world’s most iconic brands, and to be part of a reputation that has been earned for over a century. It is our responsibility to honor that heritage and build an even stronger future for our company moving forward. Each of our individual actions collectively define who we are as a company and how the world sees us.

Would you like to be a part of our team and join us on our journey?

What You Will Be Doing

This Senior Supplier Quality Engineer will perform quality assurance activities of purchased items within project phase with the objective of monitoring and guiding suppliers to define and establish processes that can deliver parts according to the agreed specifications on a consistent basis. You are responsible for the industrialization of products from sourcing phase through PPAP approval, and will manage a portfolio of suppliers within the Chassis, Vehicle Dynamics, and Metals (Body in White and General Metals) segment. This position will report to the Head of Supply Network Quality CVD & Metals North America, and can be based out of Greensboro NC (preferred), Dublin VA, Roanoke VA, Hagerstown MD, or Allentown PA.

Additional Responsibilities:
 

·  Perform supplier auditing and quality assurance activities of purchased items within projects for Volvo Trucks North America, with the objective of monitoring and guiding suppliers to define and establish processes that can deliver parts according to the agreed specifications
·  Be responsible for the industrialization of products from sourcing phase through PPAP approval, tracking and monitoring the entire APQP process along the way
·  Manage a portfolio of suppliers, including travel approximately 50-75%
·  Participate and contribute during design and technical specification and manufacturing feasibility reviews with suppliers and Volvo stakeholders
·  Review tool design practices with suppliers, providing input as needed
·  Lead review of pFMEA and Control Plans, securing Safe Launch / pre-launch and serial production product and process characteristics are optimized toward Zero Defect Mentality
·  Promote best practices for automated process control, mistake proof, automatic inspection, and segregation of defective parts in production process

What We Are Looking For

·  6 or more years of quality assurance, process quality, process engineering, or design engineering experience
·  If you have Sheet Metal fabrication, Tubular Products, Vehicle Dynamics, or Rubber segment experience along with a background in APQP/PPAP, this is great!
·  Continuous improvement and zero-defect mentality
·  Ability to create networks, collaborate, and lead cross-functional activities within multi-cultural teams
·  Degree in Engineering, Supply Chain, Business, or related field, or equivalent working experience

Benefits Statement

At the Volvo Group, we strive for a clear, transparent, and straightforward compensation approach, motivating you to contribute to the company’s growth. For this position, the base salary range is set at $93,585 - $115,505, and where applicable, bonus eligible. The range for this role, as well as final salary offered, is determined by several factors including, but not limited to, geographic location, work-related knowledge, certifications, skills, education, and experience. In addition to these factors, we believe in the importance of pay equity and consider internal equity of our current team members as part of any final offer.

•    Competitive medical, dental and vision insurance
•    Countless career opportunities / internal mobility across our global organization
•    State-of-the-art training and personal development
•    PTO and tax deferred retirement plans, varied by business

We also offer an array of additional benefits and programs that make today’s challenging reality of combining work and personal life easier. We will gladly share this information and more at any time during the interviewing process or as part of your offer letter.

We value your data privacy and therefore do not accept applications via mail. 

 

Who we are and what we believe in 
Our focus on Inclusion, Diversity, and Equity allows each of us the opportunity to bring our full authentic self to work and thrive by providing a safe and supportive environment, free of harassment and discrimination. We are committed to removing the barriers to entry, which is why we ask that even if you feel you may not meet every qualification on the job description, please apply and let us decide.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.

 

Applying to this job offers you the opportunity to join Volvo Group . Every day, across the globe, our trucks, buses, engines, construction equipment, financial services, and solutions make modern life possible. We are almost 100,000 people empowered to shape the future landscape of efficient, safe and sustainable transport solutions. Fulfilling our mission creates countless career opportunities for talents with sharp minds and passion across the group’s leading brands and entities. 

 

Group Trucks Purchasing has 125 BSEK in purchasing annual spend and 2,550 supply chain partners in serial production. We deliver the best possible products and service that bring value to our customers through scouting and working with high performing supply chain partners. We support Volvo Group's mission ‘Driving prosperity through transport solutions' through sustainability, business ethics and innovation. Joining us means working in a global context with 1,400 colleagues from diverse backgrounds and different nationalities across 25 countries while contributing to the core business and results of Volvo Group. 

Job Category:  Quality

Organization:  Group Trucks Purchasing

Travel Required:  Frequent Travel

Requisition ID:  14096