Job Description

Flex is the diversified manufacturing partner of choice that helps market-leading brands design, build and deliver innovative products that improve the world. 

A career at Flex offers the opportunity to make a difference and invest in your growth in a respectful, inclusive, and collaborative environment. If you are excited about a role but don't meet every bullet point, we encourage you to apply and join us to create the extraordinary.

Job Summary

To support our extraordinary teams who build great products and contribute to our growth, we’re looking to add a Corporate Supplier Auditor located in Flex PTP.

The Corporate Supplier Auditor role is accountable for supplier development in a manufacturing or service process; works with suppliers to continuously improve performance, implement process controls and develop quality assurance plans. develop and implement quality management procedures and systems. Plans and coordinates internal process audits and ensures optimization of the corrective action system within the operation and with external customers and vendors.

What a typical day looks like:

• Supplier Qualification--- Follow the supplier qualification process for PSL suppliers through a full supplier qualification audit that embraces: supplier risk assessment, supplier self-assessment, onsite qualification audit, qualification database management.
• Ensures accurate data collection.
• Conducts supplier audits following regulatory, industry and internal quality guidelines including ISO.
• Conducts process audits and follow up closure of open audits.
• Helps department in the root cause investigation and corrective actions of audits findings, tracking to resolution.
• Initiates product/process improvements.
• Helps filing of audits and maintenance of records.
• Monitors and report metrics to meet business needs.
• Prepares investigation of and reports on audit results for follow up on areas of concern.
• Cross communication with GCMs
• Audit schedule planning
• Audit budget investigation and control
• May provide process training to suppliers.
• Help the Global Auditor Certification Program through trainings to the applicants
• Help Maintenance Audit---Help the specific time frame maintenance audit for existing suppliers with SQE. (Every 3 years or controling Supplier Risk)
• Help Supplier CIP (Continuous Improvement Program) --- Improve the supplier performance trough follow up corrective action/audits
• Has knowledge of a company's manufacturing process, applications and process development in order to actively work with suppliers in improving quality systems.
• Provides cross functional help to select, approve and develop suppliers to meet customer and business needs.
• Conduct regular documentation session for updates training material, procedures, etc
• Corporate industry reports through data collection and investigation

The experience we’re looking to add to our team:

• Typically requires a Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent experience
• Minimum 3 years related working experience
• Working knowledge of product risk management standards and tools (e.g. ISO 14971, IATF 16949, FMEA)
• Expertise/experience in problem solving with quality tools such as: 6-sigma / 8-D / CAPA / FMEA/ 5WHY/ Core tools/ VDA, etc.
• FDA CFR Part 820 and/or ISO 13485 knowledge
• Test method validation and gage R&R studies, PPAP
• RBA
• ISO 13485 Lead auditor certifications
• ISO 13485, FDA cGMP, MDD

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