Supplier Quality Engineer at New Venture
SoLa Impact, United States
Job Description
Job Summary
We require our suppliers to provide premium quality with rapidly evolving designs at increasingly ambitious volumes. We are actively looking for candidates who possess comprehensive knowledge of manufacturing and quality tools and have unrelenting motivation to enable suppliers for success. This position requires a combination of proven leadership and technical capabilities.
About the Company
SoLa Impact is a real estate private equity firm with a double bottom line strategy focused on preserving, rehabbing, and building high-quality affordable housing in Black and brown communities. SoLa is Southern California's largest for-profit affordable housing developer and is currently in construction on over 2,000 affordable housing units across Southern California. SoLa currently owns and manages over $1.2 billion of multifamily assets, almost all of which are in low-income, Black and brown communities.
SoLa's affiliate, MODEL/Z is reinventing multifamily housing creation by building the first and only standardized modular housing factory. The MODEL/Z is a comprehensive manufacturing system designed, engineered, and built to consistently produce a high-quality, low-cost, net-zero ready, and most importantly, standardized, modular housing product. MODEL/Z is a Black-owned and operated business based in Southern California that will deliver between 1,000 1,500 modular housing units per year by 2025. We offer a rapidly growing, fast-paced environment which is intellectually challenging and extremely rewarding and fulfilling as we collectively aim to solve
Requirements
- Provide program leadership necessary to integrate the engineering, production, planning, manufacturing, and procurement groups to assure product quality, delivery, and cost achieves business and customer expectations
- Develop positive relationships and work closely with sourcing leaders to manage, implement and track supplier/engineering, design changes, capacity studies and New Product Introductions, and outsourcing.
- Interface with component teams to prioritize supplier development needs by component to improve cost competitiveness or supply constraints
- Research external market information and entrepreneurial companies to identify potential sources and suppliers
- Drive supplier selection through robust qualification processes
- Drive improvements utilizing Lean methodologies, supplier scorecards and supplier audits, ensuring supplier compliance, whilst driving systematic problem solving and process improvement plans to deliver value
- Recommend technical product improvements to reduce risk and potential defect opportunities.
- Review and assess supplier manufacturing processes and quality systems. Provide feedback to as appropriate on manufacturing methods and technologies. Manage supplier improvement plans.
- Improve quality performance of suppliers by conducting workshops at supplier locations, providing technical assistance in developing a quality system, or other technical support as required.
- Function as liaison between purchasing, engineering, manufacturing and suppliers to resolve supplier quality issues and to provide technical support.
- Demonstrate innovation, technical excellence, attention-to-detail, self-direction, amp; courage.
- Drive for results and customer satisfaction.
- Collaborate with teams, lead projects, and continuously drive improvement in the supply base.
- Actively drive NPI initiatives to achieve favorable cost/capacity agreements with suppliers
- Develop/enhance transactional processes to gain organizational efficiency
- Deliver results as measured by key metrics, such as supplier yield, field cost, field defect rate, supplier quality plan engagement/effectiveness
- Work with Engineering (Design and Manufacturing Engineers) team to define process parameters and criteria to ensure supplier process capability is effective to meet product and process requirements
- Self-Management amp; Relationship Management
- Assertive, optimistic, resilient and welcomes change
- Engages interest and participation of others and has a collaborative approach to working together
- Proactively contributes to the team
- Is self-aware and ability to work on own initiative
- Shows moral courage, openness and honesty in all dealings
- Develop and maintain strong relationships with internal and external stakeholders to ensure optimal performance
- Communicate efficiently throughout procurement and directly with customer’s/suppliers management
- Diplomatic approach to relationships
Education, Skills and Experiences:
- Minimum of 5 years in manufacturing or process engineering role
- Experience with manufacturing, machined parts, fabricated components, o