# Supplier Quality Engineer – Restraint Systems (Airbags)

**Company**: Ford
**Location**: Naucalpan de Juarez, MEX
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: mid
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Automotive

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## Description

The Ford Purchasing team adds critical value to the entire organization by sourcing high-quality parts and services globally while ensuring optimal cost and on-time delivery. As a Supplier Quality Engineer, you'll be the critical link between Ford and interior component suppliers, driving flawless product launches and sustained part quality across manufacturing sites.

**Responsibilities**

- Serve as the primary point of contact for assigned interior component supplier sites, owning quality performance from new product launch through ongoing production.

- Lead new program launch readiness by managing the Production Part Approval Process (PPAP), resolving supplier quality issues, and escalating critical risks to leadership promptly.

- Conduct on-site supplier evaluations and assessments to proactively identify and resolve manufacturing capacity or process risks before they impact production.

- Drive continuous improvement initiatives at supplier sites using proven quality methodologies to elevate performance and reduce defects.

- Lead root-cause problem-solving for supplier-related quality issues, including risk assessments and corrective action planning.

- Partner with global engineering and manufacturing teams to ensure critical safety and quality characteristics are properly controlled and verified throughout the supply chain.

**Qualifications**

- Education: Bachelor's degree in engineering or a related field, or equivalent practical experience in supplier quality/manufacturing environments.

- Experience: 3 to 7 years of experience in supplier quality, manufacturing engineering, or a related automotive/manufacturing field.

- Technical Background: Hands-on experience with one or more automotive interior manufacturing processes, such as restraint systems (airbags).

- Quality Expertise: Familiarity with quality systems and tools such as Process Failure Mode Effect Analysis (PFMEA), Statistical Process Control (SPC), Gage Repeatability & Reproducibility (Gage R&R), and root-cause problem-solving methodologies.

- Skills: Strong project management capability, experience managing supply chain risk or crisis situations, and clear communication skills (including proficiency in English) to collaborate effectively with global teams.

- Software/Tools: Proficiency with standard quality and data analysis tools such as Microsoft Excel, Minitab, or equivalent statistical software.

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## Skills

### Required
- Production Part Approval Process (PPAP)
- Statistical Process Control (SPC)
- Process Failure Mode Effect Analysis (PFMEA)
- Gage Repeatability & Reproducibility (Gage R&R)
- Microsoft Excel
- Minitab
- English

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