Principal Supplier Quality Engineer Full Time NEW

SQE responsibilities include:

• Performs technical audits to evaluate and assist in development and continuous improvement of hardware supply chain manufacturing and quality management capabilities to enable consistent compliance with Oracle’s specified product and Advanced Quality Planning (AQP) requirements.
• Manages assigned suppliers to ensure timely submittal and acceptability of key technical/quality deliverables required to support Operations qualifications of new and revised product, tooling, and processes in alignment with program schedules.  The qualification deliverables typically include First Article Inspection (FAI) reports and samples, Process Capability (Cpk) studies, manufacturing control plans, and quality audits. 
• Manages supplier quality for assigned products and suppliers through Product Life Cycle stages, including new product introduction, sustaining, and end of life transition. This includes tracking, analysis, and periodic reporting of supplier quality performance and use of data to drive assigned suppliers to meet or exceed Product Award Letter (PAL) Quality Targets and goals for continuous improvement of yields, efficiency, capacity, and throughput aimed at reducing cost and ensuring material availability.
• Interfaces broadly across organizational levels of Design, Operations and supplier functions to drive timely and effective root cause corrective action (RCCA) for supplier related  product and process quality issues during NPI and sustaining phases. 
• Applies education, training, and experience in the use of Quality Assurance concepts, statistical/quantitative analysis methods, and structured problem solving techniques to investigate and resolve supplier related product and process quality issues.
• Trains suppliers in Quality Assurance and process control techniques.
• Performs tasks largely independently within defined policies and procedures.
• Duties and tasks are standard with some variation.
• Two years minimum relevant experience and BS degree in Mechanical, Electrical, Manufacturing, Industrial Engineering or similar discipline, and/or American Society for Quality Certified Quality Engineer (Black-Belt, Certified Quality Auditor, or Certified Reliability Engineer credential preferred.

Responsibilities

Provides technical and sustaining engineering support in a manufacturing area. Recommends and implements equipment and process modifications to improve production efficiencies, manufacturing techniques and production yields for existing products. Develops and conducts statistical analysis such as Design of Experiments (DOE) and Statistical Process Control (SPC) targeting physical cause of failure for yield loss and improving quality. Interacts with product design and development personnel to ensure that processes and designs are compatible.

Qualifications

Career Level – IC4