Supplier Quality Engineer

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 edu...