Job Description
The Staff Supplier Quality Manager at Aurora is responsible for developing and maintaining supplier quality for autonomous vehicle hardware components, ensuring compliance with industry standards, leading supplier audits, and driving continuous improvement in supplier processes to support the company's self-driving technology initiatives.
Key Responsibilities
- Develop and maintain quality requirements for autonomous vehicle hardware components and suppliers.
- Manage APQP and PPAP processes, including guiding suppliers through submissions and approvals.
- Assess, develop, and evaluate suppliers' capabilities in compliance with industry standards such as ISO-9001 and IATF-16949.
- Conduct on-site supplier audits and process audits to ensure compliance and identify improvement areas.
- Collaborate with engineering, quality, and manufacturing teams to resolve technical challenges and establish expectations.
- Implement corrective actions and process improvements with suppliers, ensuring sustainability and effectiveness.
- Utilize quality tools like FMEA, Control Plans, and Process Capability Analysis to monitor and verify supplier quality performance.
- Lead supplier quality process improvements, documentation development, and approval procedures.
- Support root cause analysis and problem-solving for quality issues to ensure ongoing compliance.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Materials Science, or a related technical field.
- 7 years of experience in supplier quality, with a strong focus on electrical, electro-mechanical, or optomechanical components and photonics.
- Proven experience with PPAP processes and requirements in an automotive or autonomous vehicle industry setting.
- Proven experience in both submitting as well as receiving Part Submission Warrants (PSW).
- Knowledge of APQP, FMEA, 8D problem-solving, and other automotive quality tools and standards.
- Experience conducting supplier audits and developing suppliers in compliance with IATF 16949 and ISO 9001 standards.
- Experience with multi-tier supply chain and supplier quality management.
- Strong analytical skills and proficiency in quality-related software and statistical analysis tools.
- Ability to assess and develop new and existing suppliers, evaluating their capabilities in alignment with ISO-9001, IATF-16949, and other company standards and project requirements.
- Ability to lead suppliers through the PPAP process, ensuring timely submission and approval of required PPAP elements, documentation, validations, and samples.
- Experience supporting APQP activities, driving alignment with timelines and deliverables.
- Experience addressing quality issues through root cause analysis and problem-solving, facilitating sustainable solutions to ensure ongoing compliance.
- Experience leading supplier quality process and procedural improvements, including documentation development, alignment, and approvals.
Benefits & Perks
Base salary range: 181,000 - 290,000 per year
Annual bonus
Equity compensation
Benefits (unspecified)
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