Supplier Quality Engineer New Graduate

You will support supplier quality for components, printed circuit board assemblies, subassemblies, and system-level products. You will review quality documentation, monitor supplier performance, investigate manufacturing issues, and support supplier readiness for product introduction and production. As you develop experience, you will take increasing ownership of inspection reviews, corrective actions, supplier-performance analysis, and qualification activities with guidance from senior engineers.

Responsibilities

• Review First Article Inspection packages against drawings, specifications, dimensional results, and certifications
• Maintain supplier qualification, audit, and quality records in lifecycle and quality-management systems
• Monitor supplier scorecards and quality trends, summarize risks, and escalate adverse trends
• Issue and manage routine Supplier Corrective Action Requests and verify corrective-action effectiveness
• Support supplier assessments, qualification activities, and quality-system audits
• Support supplier readiness for new-product introduction and pilot builds
• Assist with incoming-quality issues, nonconformance investigations, material disposition, and supplier changes
• Use 8D, 5 Whys, and fishbone analysis to investigate quality issues
• Communicate requirements, resolve quality issues, and drive assigned actions to closure

Requirements

• Be a 2026 new graduate available for an immediate start
• Hold or be completing a bachelor's degree in a relevant technical field before the start date
• Have zero to two years of relevant experience
• Understand manufacturing, inspection, quality engineering, statistics, and structured problem-solving
• Read engineering drawings and specifications and understand tolerances and geometric dimensioning and tolerancing
• Be familiar with First Article Inspection, statistical process control, Cp/Cpk, measurement-system analysis, process failure mode and effects analysis, control plans, 8D, and 5 Whys
• Have exposure to relevant manufacturing processes
• Use Excel or similar tools to organize, analyze, and present quality data
• Be familiar with or able to learn Product Lifecycle Management and quality-management systems
• Evaluate technical evidence, document findings accurately, and communicate risks clearly
• Work effectively with internal teams and external suppliers
• Be willing to travel domestically and internationally to supplier sites as needed