Supplier Quality Engineer

Company: The Toro Company
Location: Perry
Posted on: February 22, 2021

Job Description:

At--The--Toro Company's corporate headquarters in Bloomington, Minnesota we pride ourselves in being an industry leader for outdoor environment products. These markets include turf and landscape maintenance, snow and ice management, underground utility, specialty construction, and irrigation and outdoor lighting solutions. Our teams at this location take pride in being on cutting edge of creating innovative products while partnering with world-class employees that bring passion to their everyday work. This is a location that truly values its employees with upward career mobility and advancement opportunities. We invite you to become part of our team! Major FunctionAs a key member of Toro Corporate Sourcing, this position partners internally with Engineering, Business, Commodity Teams and Plants as well as externally with Suppliers to develop and implement initiatives to sculpt a world class supply base that creates sustained competitive advantage for Toro.Duties & ResponsibilitiesCollaborate with suppliers to identify improvement opportunities and lead/facilitate implementation of such projects towards improving quality/capability/productivity and reducing variability using six sigma methodology/lean techniques. Establish direct working relationships with key Suppliers to ensure sustained continual improvement towards mutual benefit to Toro, our end Customers and Supplier. Collaborate with internal partners to minimize total-cost-of-ownership and price-of-non-conformance by identifying opportunities and implementing improvements. Facilitate problem solving and implementation of corrective actions to resolve supplier quality issues. Manage supplier quality performance by periodically reviewing/analyzing performance data and by monitoring their progress. Lead performance improvement programs with those suppliers who have chronic quality issues. Support suppliers in their effort to implement quality management systems and quality engineering tools. Oversee implementation of PPAP and other quality planning related activities at supplier side during qualification phase. Support the implementation of initiatives related to Supply Chain Management such as Advanced Product Quality Planning and Failure Analysis. Lead/participates on cross-functional teams in the assessment of new and existing Supplier's capabilities, strengths, opportunities for improvement and level of risks presented to Toro. Assess risk associated with quality issues. Prepare mitigation plan and follow through on implementing mitigation plan/controls to minimize identified risks. All other duties and tasks as assigned.Job DimensionsPosition works closely with both internal and external resources in the areas of quality planning, corrective action and continuous improvement. Must be able to work independently, represent Toro in a professional manner, able to make sound decisions, willing to travel (up to 30%) and have exceptional communication and problem-solving skills. Support of 9 plants (physical and phantom), all divisions, production and New Product Development Sourcing.Specifications* Bachelor's degree in engineering (such as Quality, Mechanical, Electrical or Industrial Engineering) preferred; or Bachelor's degree in related field with progressive experience in quality roles working with suppliers* Five plus years of manufacturing experience in a quality, engineering, supply chain, or similar required* Three plus years' experience--driving supplier quality development with strong planning, analysis, and problem resolution tools such as SPC, PAPP, and similar* ASQ certification in the areas of Quality Engineering, Reliability, Six Sigma, Quality Management or professional (IATCA / RAB) auditing certification preferred* Must be skilled in the assessment of manufacturing processes, use of SPC, and use of personal computers with experience in Microsoft word processing, Microsoft Access database, Microsoft Excel and SAP systems* Ability to partner with internal and external resources in the areas of quality planning, corrective action and continuous improvement* Ability to work independently, professionally, decisively, solve problems and communicate effectivelyWe are proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer including protected veterans and individuals with disabilities.

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