DESCRIPTION

Job Summary:

• The Supplier Quality Engineering Manager creates value by building an effective team, by managing daily operations, or by supporting initiatives that enable the function, business unit or customer to achieve its business objectives.

Key Responsibilities:

• Build strong relationships with all critical partners to improve quality and business outcomes, including: external suppliers, external customers, and internal customers and stakeholders, such as Purchasing, Manufacturing and Engineering; coach and mentor Cummins professionals on how to strengthen the soft skills required to develop effective relationships.
• Establish team capability for an assigned Product Category through coaching, mentoring, and development of critical competencies required to deliver Product Category specific results. Invest in the Supplier Quality talent pipeline by providing growth opportunities for Supplier Quality professionals that challenge the employee to transcend his/her role; coach and mentor them throughout the execution of these stretch assignments.
• Develop leadership capability by designing and leading regional initiatives that create business results or enhance the customer experience; utilize industry proven methodologies, such as lean and six-sigma; support regional implementation of business or corporate led initiatives. Partner with the regional customer (internal or external) to co-develop annual work plans that enable the customer to achieve its annual business objectives; manage the initiatives and teams to ensure successful execution.
• Ensure the proper application of industry common Advanced Product Quality Planning (APQP) processes, Automotive Industry Action Group (AIAG) tools, and Cummins specialty tools to develop zero defect components within the external supply base; coach and mentor Supplier and Cummins professionals on how to improve effectiveness of APQP execution. Ensure resolution of complex business-oriented or function-oriented quality challenges, by sponsoring root cause analysis, by sponsoring development of corrective actions and by sponsoring the verification of the effectiveness of corrective actions.

RESPONSIBILITIES

Competencies:

• Communicates effectively - Developing and delivering multi-mode communications that convey a clear understanding of the unique needs of different audiences.
• Cultivates innovation - Creating new and better ways for the organization to be successful.
• Customer focus - Building strong customer relationships and delivering customer-centric solutions.
• Develops talent - Developing people to meet both their career goals and the organization’s goals.
• Drives engagement - Creating a climate where people are motivated to do their best to help the organization achieve its objectives.
• Drives vision and purpose - Painting a compelling picture of the vision and strategy that motivates others to action.
• Strategic mindset - Seeing ahead to future possibilities and translating them into breakthrough strategies.
• Business Acumen - Ability to integrate into the business decision making process by applying a relatable understanding of the industry, market conditions, shareholder expectations, business strategies, business value propositions, and key profitability levers.
• Manufacturing Process Validation - Applying core Automotive tools (i.e. DFMEA, PFMEA, Control Plan, SPC, MSA, Source Release and PPAP) to validate that a manufacturing process can consistently meet technical and customer requirements.
• Quality Influence - Ability to recognize stakeholders, create a forum to professionally extract stakeholder perspectives, drive and engage in constructive conflict, and to influence outcomes in order to ensure Cummins makes a balanced decision inclusive of Quality priorities.
• Quality Standards - Applying knowledge of quality standards, such as ISO9001:2015 and IATF16949, to develop procedures, processes, and external suppliers in a manner that aligns with regulatory requirements.
• Supplier Performance Improvement - Improving supplier performance by developing and executing an effective quality improvement strategy that consists of a project team, glidepath, reduction of manufacturing issues and improvement of systemic deficiencies.
• Supplier Quality Project Planning and Execution - Applying Advanced Product Quality Planning (APQP) skills to develop and execute a quality plan that enables external suppliers to meet customer expectations; Requires facilitating communication and collaboration across cross-functional activities, when a program, initiative, or project concerns external suppliers.
• Values differences - Recognizing the value that different perspectives and cultures bring to an organization.
• Supplier Product Reliability - Ability to evaluate the supplier's product design, supplier's manufacturing process design and product validation process to ensure the supplier is capable to meet reliability expectations.

Education, Licenses, Certifications:

• College, university, or equivalent degree in Engineering or a related technical or scientific subject required
• This position may require licensing for compliance with export controls or sanctions regulations.

Experience:

• Preferably 5 years experience in Manufacturing, Engineering or Program Management role in the automotive industry or a similarly regulated industry.

QUALIFICATIONS

• Familiar with Fuel System Product and Cummins VPI project development process
• 10+ years working experience with, 3+ years team management experience

Job Quality

Organization Cummins Inc.

Role Category Off-site Remote

Job Type Exempt - Experienced

ReqID 2424207

Relocation Package Yes

100% On-Site No