Supplier Quality Engineer
Bevi is on a mission to disrupt the beverage supply chain and replace single-use water bottles with smart water machines. Thousands of companies use Bevi to sustainably provide their employees with pure, sparkling, and flavored water at work. As the market leader in IoT-enabled beverage machines, we’ve raised over $60M in venture capital and we’re doubling year over year. In addition to maintaining our current product line, Bevi is heavily investing in new product development.
We are seeking a Supplier Quality Engineer to join Bevi’s manufacturing and quality team. This role reports to the Director of Quality Engineering, and will be responsible for measuring, improving, and maintaining the quality of Bevi’s supply chain. The Supplier Quality Engineer will work closely with the supply chain and engineering teams to identify and prioritize targets for improvement. The ideal candidate will embrace the Bevi core values, learning new skills, working across disciplines, and driving issues to completion.
Our core values at Bevi are: *Put Customers First* / *Be Great to Work with* / *Raise the Bar Together* / *Act Like You Own the Business* / *Be Curious and Ask Why* / *Champion Sustainability*
As a Supplier Quality Engineer at Bevi, you will:
- Perform supplier audits for new and existing suppliers and provide reports that include audit scores, risk areas, observations and corrective actions.
- Work closely with the Supply-Chain team to establish a qualifications process of new suppliers.
- Work closely with the Supply-Chain team to establish a supplier scorecard and rate all current suppliers.
- Act as the technical liaison between Engineering, Manufacturing and suppliers to ensure requirements are understood and complied with.
- Provide the Contract Manufacturer and 2nd tier suppliers with technical support of incoming inspection and maintain/review incoming inspection plans.
- Work with the engineering team to improve documentation with respect to supplier understanding and inspection criteria
- Develop first article approval plan for new parts. Review requirements for first article inspection and analyze data of all new/revised design parts to assure the producer can meet the specifications supplied.
- Together with manufacturing quality and external suppliers ensure accurate root cause analysis and effective corrective actions for design, manufacturing and field failures.
- Integral part of the product development team. Participate in product development activities and product design reviews and ensure quality requirements and reliability standards of components and sub-systems are embedded in the design.
- Work with supporting departments to ensure nonconforming conditions are quickly acted upon, appropriate dispositions are established and disruptions to the production line are minimized
- Maintain suppliers’ Quality data collection activities and run reports on a periodic basis to summarize data and to initiate and recommend suppliers’ continual improvement activities.
Requirements
We think you will bring:
- 3-5 years' minimum work experience as Supplier Quality Engineer.
- Strong communicator able to facilitate discussion and present data to all levels of the internal and external organization.
- Strong analytical and technical skills are necessary to interpret specifications and drawings and perform problem solving and data analysis leading to improvement initiatives.
- Very strong quality improvement background, applying statistical tools, process FMEAs and root cause problem solving tools.
- Experience in using SPC tools and a deep understanding in how to apply them when measuring process reliability and repeatability in the supply chain.
- Experience leading Process Improvement Teams and managing major projects.
- ASQ certifications of CQE and CQA are a plus.
- Passionate about delivering best-in-class quality to customers and stakeholders
- NOTE: must be willing to travel up to 50%
Benefits
- Competitive compensation package, including equity options
- Comprehensive medical, dental and vision insurance plans with BlueCross BlueShield, 95% paid by employer
- Fully employer paid disability and life insurances
- Wellness and fitness reimbursements
- 401(k) and environmentally responsible investing options
- 15 days vacation and 9 paid holidays, plus additional paid days for sick leave, bereavement, etc.
- Paid parental leave for both primary and secondary caregivers (mothers and fathers)
- Monthly stipends for cell phone use and commuting costs
- Onsite snacks and Bevis... and composting and terracycling, too
- Happy hours, pancake breakfasts, Hero awards - and more!