Supplier Quality Engineer

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Supplier Quality EngineerProcurement & Purchasing

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Key Responsibilities

Collaborate with suppliers and R&D teams to ensure production predictability and stability at the supplier (CM) site.

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Supplier Quality EngineerProcurement & Purchasing

Inseego is a global leader in wireless broadband, delivering fast, reliable connectivity to homes, businesses, and people on the move. With the acquisition of Nokia’s FastMile fixed wireless access product, Inseego offers one of the industry’s broadest cellular broadband portfolios, spanning fixed wireless gateways, mobile hotspots and routers, enterprise and industrial gateways, and cloud-based device, network, and subscriber management software. Backed by decades of wireless engineering expertise across 5G, Wi-Fi, antenna design, and cloud software, Inseego partners with mobile network operators worldwide to deliver connectivity at scale. Headquartered in San Diego, California, Inseego has offices in Amsterdam, Bangalore, and Athens.

Responsibilities

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→Collaborate with suppliers and R&D teams to ensure production predictability and stability at the supplier (CM) site.
→Support capacity planning and ensure consistent output with high-quality standards at the supplier.
→Manage customer complaints using 8D reporting methodology, ensuring timely resolution and communication.
→Drive the implementation and validation of improvement and corrective actions.
→Conduct risk assessments and provide recommendations for new suppliers and process technologies.
→Oversee sustaining activities and process optimization to ensure long-term efficiency.
→Develop and execute a comprehensive continuous improvement plan.
→Work with suppliers to establish and implement quality management plans using industry-standard tools and methodologies to drive quality improvements.
→Conduct end-to-end audits of PCBA manufacturing processes, including SMT, wave soldering, and selective soldering, to ensure compliance with quality standards.
→Assess and qualify suppliers based on technical capability, quality systems, and production capacity.
→Conduct capability assessments and risk evaluations for new and existing suppliers.
→Maintain AVL (approved vendor list) by conducting regular audits, monitoring KPI’s, organizing and driving supplier QBR’s, and recommending qualification/disqualification.
→Provide regular reporting and visibility into AVL mix used in production.
→Work with the supplier to troubleshoot and resolve manufacturing issues, including root cause analysis and corrective action implementation.
→Collaborate with the supplier and the R&D design teams to ensure Design for Manufacturability (DFM) and Design for Assembly (DFA) principles are applied to the designs.
→Lead efforts to optimize thermal profiling, soldering processes, and ESD controls in PCBA manufacturing.
→Drive the adoption of Lean Manufacturing and Six Sigma methodologies to reduce waste and improve efficiency.
→Ensure compliance with environmental regulations and promote sustainability practices in PCBA manufacturing.
→Support the implementation of Industry 4.0 (smart manufacturing) initiatives, including process automation, real-time monitoring, predictive maintenance and process improvements to increase efficiency and responsiveness. 
→Collect, maintain and analyze CM quality data including IQC, QC, OQC, FPY, FYR, FAI, RCCA to identify opportunities for improvement or needed corrective actions.
→Regularly visit key component suppliers, when not working in the CM, to validate the collected quality data in person.
→Work closely at the CM to ensure that the CM’s IQC, QC, OQC, FPY, FYR align as expected with Inseego requirements and industry standards..
→Work with the CM’s to identify process improvements to drive continuous improvement and quality KPI’s above the established Inseego targets.
→Travel regular between CM’s and key Suppliers to provide on site support to resolve quality issues based on defined priorities, KPI’s, quality data and production demand.
→This role is expected to spend most of their time embedded in the CM’s and Key Component Suppliers.
→Work closely with Quality, RL, Repair to align CM KPI’s with expected field quality.
→Ensure adequate inspection (examination) process of incoming materials is in place at CM/ODM to ensure that they meet requirements.
→Work with the CM/ODM to ensure that their team of Quality engineers, inspectors, auditors, analysts, and technicians are performing their duties as required.
→Work closely with Manufacturing Engineering team on production/process improvements.
→Analyze factory and field failure data, recommend corrective action(s) and support or lead efforts to improve product quality.
→Conduct failure analysis/correction actions with suppliers utilizing industry-standard failure analysis (FMEA) techniques such as 8D analysis.