Job Description
Overview:
TekWissen is a global workforce management provider headquartered in Ann Arbor, Michigan that offers strategic talent solutions to clients worldwide. The job opportunity below is with one of our clients specializing in biotechnology product development services. The client is dedicated to supplying laboratory equipment, chemicals, supplies, and services essential in healthcare, scientific research, safety, and education. As a global leader in serving the scientific community, the organization generates approximately $40 billion in annual revenue and is committed to making the world healthier, cleaner, and safer. Their global team delivers innovative technologies, convenient procurement solutions, and pharmaceutical services through industry-leading brands.
Position: Supplier Quality Engineer
Location: Ramsey, MN - 55303
Duration: 12 Months
Job Type: Temporary Assignment
Work Type: Onsite
Shift: First Shift
Location: Ramsey, MN - 55303
Duration: 12 Months
Job Type: Temporary Assignment
Work Type: Onsite
Shift: First Shift
Summary:
We are seeking a Quality Specialist Supplier Quality / Supplier Quality Engineer to support supplier quality acceptance activities for bioprocessing equipment, automation products, components, fabricated assemblies, and related equipment. This role is responsible for ensuring supplier-provided products meet approved engineering drawings, specifications, purchase requirements, inspection plans, and quality standards. The Quality Specialist will perform and document inspections at supplier sites and receiving locations, identify nonconforming conditions, support supplier corrective actions, and collaborate with suppliers and internal teams to improve product quality.
Responsibilities:
- Perform supplier quality acceptance and inspection activities with minimal supervision.
- Inspect mechanical and electrical components and assemblies, including stainless-steel vessels, fabricated hardware, electrical enclosures, controllers, wiring, welds, surface finishes, dimensions, and workmanship.
- Perform source inspections, receiving inspections, in-process verification, Factory Acceptance Testing (FAT), and Hardware Acceptance Testing.
- Use appropriate inspection and measurement equipment to verify product characteristics.
- Review engineering drawings, specifications, bills of material, inspection plans, and quality requirements.
- Review supplier certificates, inspection records, material documentation, calibration records, test reports, and other quality records.
- Document inspection and acceptance results in reports, logs, ERP/QMS systems, and other required platforms.
- Identify, document, and communicate supplier nonconformances, discrepancies, and deviations.
- Support supplier corrective actions, including containment, evidence collection, follow-up, and verification of corrective actions.
- Escalate significant, recurring, or systemic supplier quality issues.
- Collaborate with Engineering, Operations, Procurement, Project teams, Quality, and suppliers to resolve quality issues.
- Monitor supplier manufacturing progress and identify conditions that could affect product quality, acceptance, or delivery.
- Track recurring inspection findings and defect trends to support supplier performance monitoring.
- Support improvements to inspection methods, acceptance criteria, checklists, work instructions, and quality records.
- Maintain accurate inspection and quality documentation.
- Follow applicable environmental, health, safety, and quality requirements and use required PPE and safe work practices.
Required Skills
- Minimum 3 years of experience in Supplier Quality, Quality Inspection, Incoming Inspection, Source Inspection, Manufacturing Quality, Validation, or a related mechanical/electrical manufacturing environment.
- Experience working directly with suppliers or fabricators strongly preferred.
- Experience with inspection procedures, sampling and acceptance criteria, nonconformance processes, and supplier corrective actions.
- Ability to interpret engineering drawings, specifications, tolerances/GD&T, bills of material, inspection plans, and acceptance criteria.
- Experience with stainless-steel fabrication, welds, surface finishes, and regulated manufacturing environments preferred.
- Experience using inspection tools such as tape measures, calipers, micrometers, profilometers, optical tachometers, and other measurement equipment.
- Knowledge of supplier quality acceptance and inspection practices.
- Ability to make objective, risk-based acceptance and rejection decisions.
- Experience with ERP, eQMS, and document control systems.
- Proficiency with Microsoft Office and computer-based quality systems.
- Strong attention to detail and accuracy.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills.
- Strong problem-solving and decision-making abilities.
- Ability to collect objective evidence and support containment, disposition, and corrective actions.
- Ability to work independently and collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams.
- Ability to communicate technical quality requirements clearly.
- Ability to lift and carry up to 35 lbs. and stand for extended periods.
- Ability to bend, kneel, access equipment at floor level, and climb ladders.
- Ability to work safely in manufacturing, fabrication, receiving, and metalworking environments.
- Ability to travel by air and car to supplier sites throughout North America.
TekWissen Group is an equal opportunity employer supporting workforce diversity.
Numbers & Facts
| Location | Ramsey, MN (Remote) |
| Industry | Computer/IT Services |
| Salary | $30–$35 |
| Company Size | 100 to 499 employees |
| Year Founded | 2009 |
| Website | http://www.tekwissen.com/ |
About Company
WE THE TEKWISSEN PEOPLE
TekWissen offers you a broader portfolio of services, industry-leading solutions, and the meaningful innovations that give you greater flexibility and speed to respond to market dynamics, reduced costs and risk to improve enterprise performance, and increased productivity to enable growth.
To keep pace with global market demands, TekWissen keeps its finger on the pulse of change. Our organized approach to guiding a project from its inception to closure. Managing projects is becoming more and more important as we enter the digital era. To cope with the pace that this transition demands, a method is required to manage projects so they can yield quality work, while incorporating efficient use of time and resources.
Project involves identifying which quality standards are relevant to the project and determining how to satisfy them.
It is important to perform quality planning during the Planning Process and should be done alongside the other project planning processes because changes in the quality will likely require changes in the other planning processes, or the desired product quality may require a detailed risk analysis of an identified problem. It is important to remember that quality should be planned, designed, then built in, not added on after the fact.
Capabilities and accomplishments in one TekWissen business enhance the opportunity for success in the others. Put simply, TekWissen's unique combination of attributes promotes success.Skills
- Acceptance Testingunmatched
- Automationunmatched
- Bill of Materials (BOM)unmatched
- Biotech and Pharmaceuticalunmatched
- Calibrationunmatched
- Communication Skillsunmatched
- Corrective Actionunmatched
- Cross-Functionalunmatched
- Detail Orientedunmatched
- Diversityunmatched
- Documentationunmatched
- Electrical Componentsunmatched
- Electrical Wiringunmatched
- Electricityunmatched
- Engineering Drawingunmatched
- Geometric Dimensioning and Tolerancingunmatched
- Hardware Quality Assuranceunmatched
- Healthcareunmatched
- Laboratory Equipmentunmatched
- Lift/Move 35 Poundsunmatched
- Manufacturingunmatched
- Materials Planningunmatched
- Metalworkingunmatched
- Performance Analysisunmatched
- Presentation/Verbal Skillsunmatched
- Problem Solving Skillsunmatched
- Product Developmentunmatched
- Product Engineeringunmatched
- Purchasing/Procurementunmatched
- Quality Controlunmatched
- Quality Engineeringunmatched
- Quality Managementunmatched
- Quality Metricsunmatched
- Receiving Inspectionunmatched
- Riskunmatched
- Sampling Inspectionunmatched
- Scientific Researchunmatched
- Technical Deliveryunmatched
- Testingunmatched
- Tolerance Analysisunmatched
- Vendor/Supplier Evaluationunmatched
- Weldingunmatched
- Willing to Travelunmatched
- Workforce Managementunmatched
- Writing Skillsunmatched
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