Supplier Quality Assurance Engineer

Overview: Supplier Quality Assurance Engineer (Onsite role - Coolidge, Arizona) You’re passionate about a zero-emissions future and want to build something special. You want to own your space, but work with talented, like-minded people on important projects. The pace doesn’t scare you; it excites you. Quality and integrity matter to you. We feel exactly the same way. We’re currently on the lookout for a Supplier Quality Assurance Engineer who can ensure the quality and integrity of innovative products on an aggressive timeline. In this role, you’ll interact with multiple departments and suppliers, you will be responsible for assuring the highest quality standards for purchased products within the manufacturing facility. Areas of focus include, but are not limited to, harnesses, metallics, castings, batteries, control modules, valves, fans and more. The right candidate has experience managing global suppliers and can direct supplier activities at the management level with the capacity to contribute consistently and positively in a high-paced, fast-changing, and sometimes unpredictable environment. Responsibilities: Support our manufacturing facilities for purchased components that are not meeting requirements with a primary focus on ensuring that OK product will be supplied to the production lines. Drive supplier corrective actions, ensuring adequate root cause analysis, corrective action implementation and verification of effectiveness. Own and actively manage the supplier escalation, claim management and supplier chargeback processes. Be responsible for updating Supplier Quality KPI’s, resolving supplier issues and receiving inspection process issues. Reduce and improve PRR (issue) indicators in alignment with internal quality targets. Be responsible for coordinating supplier quality related containment activities within the plant and the supply chain. Be responsible for helping to reduce and eliminate quality issues from internal audits based on the criteria set forth by the company. Support and perform supplier performance reviews with top suppliers. Perform supplier audits and site inspections. Provide technical feedback to broad cross-functional audience within the organization. Monitor and maintain department KPI’s. Perform weekly MRB activities in the Quarantine Area. Be the liaison between the suppliers and the manufacturing facility providing objective feedback to continuously improve the next generation of Nikola products. Ability to travel