Supplier quality engineer

Supplier Quality Engineer

Permanent Position | Coventry (On-site with travel to supplier sites)

10% Bonus, 10% Pension, Continuous Career Development + More!

Drive Quality Excellence Across a Global Supply Chain

Are you a quality-driven engineer with a passion for improving supplier performance and delivering zero-defect products? We’re looking for a Supplier Quality Engineer to play a pivotal role in ensuring excellence across our supply chain and delivering world-class standards to our customers.

This is an opportunity to join a high-performing team where your expertise will directly impact product quality, supplier capability, and continuous improvement across a complex, global environment.

Supplier Quality Engineer

The Role

As a Supplier Quality Engineer, you will act as a key interface between suppliers, customers, and internal teams. You’ll lead quality initiatives, drive supplier development, and ensure compliance with industry and customer standards. You’ll be instrumental in delivering zero defects by:

• Supporting quality across the full supply chain
• Driving supplier performance improvement initiatives
• Leading root cause investigations and corrective actions
• Ensuring compliance with aerospace and customer quality requirements

Supplier Quality Engineer

Key Responsibilities

• Provide expert quality support to suppliers and internal value streams
• Lead supplier audits, development activities, and performance improvement programmes
• Implement and drive Zero Defect initiatives to reduce defects (DPPM)
• Analyse non-conformance data and deliver actionable improvements
• Lead problem-solving activities using methodologies such as 8D
• Review First Article Inspection Reports (AS9102)
• Ensure compliance to AS9100 and regulatory standards
• Support supplier transfer and development programmes
• Partner cross-functionally with Procurement, Engineering, and Operations

Supplier Quality Engineer

What We’re Looking For

You’ll bring a strong background in quality engineering within a regulated environment, ideally aerospace, along with a proactive and collaborative mindset.

Essential experience & skills:

• Strong knowledge of AS9100 / AS9102 / ISO9001
• Experience in supplier quality, audits, and development
• Familiarity with APQP, PPAP, FMEA, Control Plans
• Proven problem-solving capability (8D / RCA tools)
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills

Travel

• Approx. 25% travel including supplier visits (approx. 1 per week)
• Occasional international travel within EMEA (approx. 1 per month)