About the job
Join the Jacuzzi Group as a Supplier Quality Engineer! In this pivotal role, you will oversee and enhance quality initiatives related to supplier performance, ensuring the excellence of incoming components and fostering productive relationships with vendors. Your responsibilities will encompass:
- Conducting thorough incoming inspections of critical components supplied to our facility.
- Engaging in the approval process through first article testing and component reporting, collaborating with the Material Review Board (MRB).
- Executing validation tests for revised components emerging from supplier quality concerns, working alongside manufacturing and engineering teams.
- Performing various testing activities, including failure mode replication and sample preparation for third-party labs.
- Leading inspections of current inventory as necessary, especially when supplier claims arise, with MRB support.
- Conducting root cause analyses and resolving supplier-related issues, including generating corrective and preventive action reports.
- Creating alerts and work visual instructions regarding supplier quality issues, encompassing product identification and design changes.
- Promptly escalating significant supplier quality concerns to supervisors.
- Carrying out regular quality audits for local suppliers, with potential international audits as required.
- Identifying opportunities for improvement in supplier quality and proposing actionable plans to management.
- Participating in additional quality activities that influence supplier quality.
- Acting as a local liaison between suppliers and factory personnel concerning supplier quality.
You will also be responsible for developing and maintaining reports on supplier performance, certificates of analysis, non-conformances for key suppliers, and technical documentation from suppliers.

