Supplier Quality Engineer - Lockheed Martin - Greenville, South Carolina
(2025-03)
Collaborating with internal Quality, engineering, and manufacturing functions and suppliers to meet quality standards and product requirements.
- Monitoring quality control activities and systems at supplier facilities and maintain feedback loops.
- Performing surveillance to ensure supplier's conformance to company and program requirements.
- Conducting source inspections, first articles, manufacturing process validations, source surveillance, and special process audits.
- Providing internal and supplier support for root cause and corrective/preventive actions related to supplier discrepancies
- Supporting supplier failure investigations as needed
- Ensuring control of supplier nonconforming items and conducting analyses to monitor efficiency of corrective actions at the supplier.
- Supporting creation and maintenance on specification audit checklists and conducting supplier audits to industry standards.
Quality Engineer - Autoneum - Duncan, South Carolina
(2023-09 - 2024-12)
- Monitors and continuously improve incoming SPC (Statistical Process Control)
- Review and request revision if (needed) incoming inspection standards.
- Conduct inspection and cause analysis regarding raw materials quality and non-Conforming issues
- Plan the corrective Acton for the Non-Conformity issue.
- Control Non-Conforming Product marks identifier (label, demand or right indemnity, and request rework).
- Review and verify supplier – suggested solutions and corrective action plans for the raw material quality non- conforming issues.
- Regularly check and monitor the inspection equipment and conduct a calibration based on the equipment management standards.
- Placed orders for the purchase of new inspection equipment
- Serve as Supplier Quality Engineer at BMW
- Manage the Supplier complaint system (B2B Portal), including execution and documentation of inbound inspections by Quality Technician issuance of supplier complaints.
Quality Engineer - Michelin North America - Columbia, South Carolina
(2022-11 - 2023-06)
- Ensure delivered products and assemblies are aligned with quality standards and are manufactured within specifications.
- Meet the quality and efficiency performance by following the "Right the first time" principles.
- Mentor and coach operators to ensure that manufacturing standards are followed.
- Follow up on process performance in terms of capability and productivity.
- Participate in quality planning for products, materials, processes, and methods.
- Provide feedback on compliance and standards to management.
- Develop guidelines and standards for operators.
- Anticipate obstacles, consider the next steps.
- Support the EMS, QMS and H&S systems including requirement of ISO 9001 and 14001.
Quality Engineer/Quality Control Coordinator - Autokiniton - Fountain Inn, South Carolina
(2021-01 - 2022-03)
- Performs internal Audits (Product, Process, System, and LPA)
- Steward for Rework Process
- Responsible for updating procedures, work instruction and forms
- Daily review of customer internet reports/ratings and initiate reply process if applicable
- Trains operations colleagues using measuring equipment, Quality Alerts, Process, containment of non-Conforming material.
- Interacts with management and other colleagues to ensure quality requirements are met and maintained during the production process. This will include shipping and receiving as needed.
- Conduct Gage Repeatability and Reproduce ability (GR&R) studies to ensure check fixtures follow customer requirements.
Production Quality Specialist / Materials Planning Execution Specialist - GE Aviation - Auburn, Alabama / Asheville, North Carolina / Greenville, South Carolina
(2014-08 - 2020-07)
- Create and submit MRB tickets for non-Conforming material
- Ensure operational alignment with production plan and KPI
- Optimizes inventory and process improvement.
- Communicates across direct organization.
- Coordinate and expedite the flow of material (from suppliers, also within product lines)
- Served as a team coach and mentor to 2nd shift production team members.
- Work on cross-functional projects/teams to deliver lean material planning solutions for the business.
