Quality Engineer / Supplier Quality Engineer / Reliability Engineer

Role Description The Quality Engineer / Supplier Quality Engineer / Reliability Engineer ensures that products, materials, processes, and supplier outputs meet defined quality, safety, performance, and reliability standards. This role applies engineering, analytical, and quality-management methods to prevent defects, reduce risk, improve process capability, and support consistent customer and regulatory requirements. The position works closely with manufacturing, engineering, procurement, suppliers, operations, product development, logistics, and customer teams to identify quality issues and implement effective solutions. Responsibilities include conducting inspections and audits, analysing non-conformities, managing corrective and preventive actions, reviewing supplier performance, validating process changes, supporting new-product introduction, and ensuring quality requirements are understood across the supply chain. The role also drives continuous improvement by monitoring quality metrics, investigating failures, conducting root-cause analysis, and implementing reliability and risk-reduction initiatives. It maintains quality documentation, supports internal and external audits, evaluates supplier capability, and ensures quality systems comply with relevant standards, customer specifications, and organisational procedures. Qualifications Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Quality Management, Manufacturing, Industrial Engineering, Materials Science, Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or a related field.Experience in quality engineering, supplier quality, reliability engineering, manufacturing quality, process engineering, or a related role.Strong understanding of quality-management systems, quality-control methods, inspection processes, non-conformance management, and continuous-improvement principles.Experience conducting root-cause analysis and implementing corrective and preventive actions using methods such as 5 Whys, Fishbone Diagram, 8D, A3, DMAIC, or similar approaches.Knowledge of quality tools including FMEA, control plans, process capability analysis, statistical process control, sampling plans, measurement-system analysis, and failure analysis.Experience managing supplier-quality activities, including supplier qualification, audits, performance monitoring, supplier corrective actions, and improvement plans.Ability to analyse quality, reliability, defect, yield, scrap, return, warranty, and supplier-performance data to identify trends and improvement opportunities.Experience supporting new-product introduction, design reviews, product validation, process validation, production-part approval, or change-control activities.Knowledge of relevant quality standards such as ISO 9001, IATF 16949, AS9100, ISO 13485, GMP, or industry-specific requirements is advantageous.Familiarity with reliability-engineering concepts, including failure modes, reliability testing, life-cycle analysis, risk assessment, durability, and product-performance evaluation.Ability to develop and maintain inspection procedures, quality plans, work instructions, audit reports, technical documentation, and quality records.Experience working with ERP, quality-management, manufacturing-execution, statistical-analysis, or supplier-management systems is beneficial.Strong communication, problem-solving, analytical, stakeholder-management, and project-coordination skills.Ability to work effectively with suppliers, production teams, engineering teams, customers, and cross-functional stakeholders in a fast-paced environment.Professional qualifications such as ASQ Certified Quality Engineer, Six Sigma, Lean, ISO auditor certification, or relevant industry certifications are an advantage.