The North America team is currently looking for a Supplier Quality Engineer to join our Taylorville, IL facility.

The Supplier Quality Engineer will work closely with our suppliers, operations, product engineering team, and commodity management to focus on our drive toward our mission of making farmers and agribusiness operators more productive and profitable. This position is accountable for overseeing strategic quality systems and investigating, analyzing, and addressing quality, production, and control issues at both supplier and production sites. Additionally, the role involves conducting audits and implementing new strategies to enhance operational effectiveness.

Your Impact

• Responsible as the key liaison between operations, suppliers, commodity management, and the customer, ensuring that overall specifications, quality/regulatory requirements, and expectations are met for all purchased products
• Define audits and surveys to ensure that all suppliers meet our business requirements, including quality standards
• Ability to execute supplier audit activities related to both validation and ongoing management of quality execution capabilities
• Supplier Performance Management and Development
• Complement Taylorville Operations in supplier-related activities
• Engage collaboratively with the Taylorville operations and quality team on the production floor to address and resolve operational quality issues.
• Support Taylorville on incoming inspections and problem part resolution through all phases of operations
• Facilitate reporting and notifying suppliers of cost-recovery requirements resulting from the need to contain, segregate, or handle non-conforming parts
• Support alternative supplier selection. Participates in customer-facing supplier quality activities
• Provide Support to Taylorville regarding the Taylorville and Grain & Protein Technologies Quality Management System
• Support overall site Quality Management System through metrics, auditing, etc. Mentor and support activities and process effectiveness
• Responsible for providing engineering support for all applicable areas of Quality Assurance
• Manages suppliers except for procuring material.
• Responsible for supplier corrective action, deviation approval & periodic supplier feedback
• Implementation and maintain supplier's rating system.
• Engage collaboratively with the Procurement Team for Grain and Protein Technologies to identify and spearhead supplier development opportunities. Conduct supplier audits and deliver actionable insights based on the requirements established by operations, product engineering, and procurement functions.
• Initiate and follow up on incoming materials requests with suppliers.
• Additional duties deemed necessary to support the Taylorville Quality Metrics

Your Experience and Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree preferred, or equivalent combination of education, training, and experience
• 8+ years' experience in Quality
• ASQ certification is a plus
• Experience working in an industrial manufacturing environment
• Knowledge of mechanical, pneumatic, hydraulic, and electrical systems and components
• Proficient in quality analysis tools such as Corrective Actions, Statistical Process Control, Process Failure Mode & Effects Analysis, and others
• Strong problem-solving skills with the ability to teach basic problem-solving techniques and
• facilitate problem-solving team events
• Six Sigma training or certification a plus
• Package Engineering experience
• Experience in developing part certification processes (PPAP) and vendor quality measures
• Knowledge of fabrication-based quality control methods, tools, and techniques
• Strong engineering analysis skills, as well as data analysis and reporting
• Strong communication, presentation, and team-building skills
• Manages time effectively and remains organized in all circumstances
• Travel 10% - 25% based on operational demands

Your Compensation and Benefits

• Expected total compensation for this role will be $54, 797 to $96, 200 per hour depending upon job related knowledge, experience, and skills
• Eligible for annual bonus
• Benefits include the ability to elect health care and wellness plans, dental and vision plans, 401(k) Savings Plan with company match, paid holidays, paid time off, health savings and flexible spending accounts, reimbursement for continuing education, life insurance, and other supplemental insurance plans

Work Environment

• You will be working onsite, role is based in Taylorville, IL
• Office-based within a manufacturing facility
• Travel 10% - 25% based on operational demands
• Frequent interactions with plant employees on the production floor, leadership, design engineers, purchasing, and vendors

Join us as we bring agriculture into the future and apply now!

Grain & Protein Technologies is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. We maintain a drug-free workplace and perform pre-employment substance abuse testing.Grain & Protein Technologies is a leading global designer, manufacturer, and marketer of reliable, durable, and innovative equipment solutions for grain, seed, poultry, egg, and swine production. Generating $1.1 billion in annual revenue, the Company serves farmers and agribusiness managers in over 100 countries and currently operates 19 manufacturing facilities across 5 continents, employing more than 3600 people.

The Company goes to market with its strong portfolio of industry leading brands - GSI, Cumberland, AP, Tecno, Cimbria, Aerotech, Reventa, and Euroemme. With its Company Purpose of "Feeding the World Better", Grain & Protein Technologies emphasizes advancing smart technologies and offering innovative technical solutions to make farmers and agribusiness managers more productive and profitable in a sustainable way.