Overview In this role you will drive supplier quality in casting, ensuring parts meet quality and regulatory demands while advancing preventive improvements in supplier processes. You will collaborate with sourcing and engineering during industrialization to achieve near-zero defects and maintain flexible quality to changing needs. You will lead risk assessments, containment actions, and continuous improvement to strengthen the casting supply chain. This is an opportunity to shape supplier capability and impact product quality at scale.
Responsibilities Provide engineering support to supplier manufacturing processes and lead action plans for capability, tolerancing, and materials issues
Collaborate with Sourcing to guide supplier development strategy and with Engineering during industrialization to ensure production capability and control
Lead supplier eligibility assessments, readiness reviews, and surveillance audits
Lead APQP and ensure PPAP approval on-site when required
Lead supplier launches and ramp-up with early containment actions
Handle daily shop issues related to supplied parts, identifying and containing non-conformities
Lead problem‐solving activities for non-conformities, root cause analysis, risk assessment, and standardization via lessons learned/FMEA
Lead risk assessments (PFMEA, PQA, etc.) and determine improvement parameters using relevant statistical methods
Qualifications Master's degree in engineering or science
Minimum 3 years' experience in driving quality assurance and control in casting foundries or SQ for casting suppliers
Strong knowledge of GD&T; and basic knowledge of HT and NDT, FPI, MPI and X-ray inspection
Strong knowledge of MSA is mandatory
Proven experience with PDCA, Ishikawa diagram/3x5L, SIPOC/Process Flow Diagram/Process Flow Chart, Production Control Plan/FMEA, APQP/PPAP, SPC/Run Charts, MSA
Fluent English
Willingness to travel at least 50% of the time
Work Visa in accordance with local regulations
Benefits remote work where
📌 Lead Supplier Quality Engineer Casting (Italia)
🏢 Altro
📍 Italia