The Senior SQE partners closely with suppliers, Procurement, Engineering, Manufacturing, Project Quality, and internal Quality teams to strengthen supplier capability, prevent recurrence of defects, and drive measurable improvement in supplier performance and cost of poor quality. Strong knowledge of supplier quality tools and methods, including supplier audits, advanced quality planning, control plans, FAI/PPAP or equivalent approval processes, root cause analysis, corrective action, process capability, measurement system analysis, and risk-based supplier management.