Supplier Quality Engineer

Join National Presto Industries as the Supplier Quality Engineer and lead efforts to ensure supplier products, materials, and manufacturing processes meet quality, safety, regulatory, and performance standards. This role also serves as the primary technical quality contact for suppliers and manufacturing partners while providing direction to external quality resources.

As the Supplier Quality Engineer, you will also:

• lead supplier qualification and development activities by evaluating quality systems, manufacturing processes, technical capabilities, capacity, and production readiness;
• provide supplier-quality leadership during new product development, sourcing, design review, specification development, production qualification, and product or process changes;
• lead / support APQP, PPAP, process validation, pilot builds, first-production reviews, and related readiness activities
• develop / review quality plans, control plans, inspection requirements, acceptance criteria, process-capability studies, and other supplier-quality documentation.
• lead supplier investigation, containment, and corrective action for significant defects, production failures, field issues, customer complaints, and recurring problems using structured problem-solving methods.
• evaluate supplier root-cause determinations and corrective actions for technical adequacy
• evaluate manufacturing processes for capability, repeatability, process control, inspection effectiveness, error-proofing, and overall quality risk, using data to drive prevention improvement
• direct external quality resources supporting inspections, audits, and production monitoring, corrective-action follow-up and other assigned supplier-quality activities.