Sr Supplier Quality Engineer I

About the role

As a Senior Supplier Quality Engineer, you will provide quality engineering support for Axon products including conducted electrical weapons, cameras, and accessories. You will collaborate with design, quality, and supply chain teams to select qualified suppliers and drive improvements in supplier performance. This role involves significant travel to APAC supplier factories to ensure manufacturing processes meet established quality standards.

Responsibilities

• Conduct new supplier assessments and onsite audits to ensure compliance with quality and process requirements.
• Manage New Product Introduction (NPI) activities including yield reviews, Jira ticket tracking, and quality control planning.
• Facilitate the development and maintenance of PFMEA to quantify and mitigate supplier process risks.
• Assess supplier inspection capabilities and assist in generating inspection plans and process capability studies.
• Monitor supplier quality performance metrics such as DPPM, NCMRs, and SCARs to drive continual improvement.
• Ensure Critical to Quality product characteristics are monitored for process capability and specification adherence.

Required skills

• Manufacturing
• NPI
• Quality Management Systems
• Root cause analysis
• PPAP
• SPC
• DOE
• PFMEA
• Control Plans
• GR&R
• Lean Manufacturing
• DMAIC
• 8D Methodology
• Statistical software

Nice to have

• Electrical Engineering
• Mechanical Engineering
• Industrial Engineering
• Material Engineering

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Industrial Engineering or Material Engineering
• 10 years experience in problem solving related to manufacturing of mechanical parts
• 5 years experience in audits utilizing ISO9001, IATF16949, VDA 6.3 or comparable

Certifications

• ISO9001
• ESD20.20
• IATF16949
• IPC-1602
• IPC-A-610
• Green/black belt

About the Company

Axon is on a mission to Protect Life, pursuing society’s most critical safety and justice issues with an ecosystem of devices and cloud software.