Senior Supplier Quality Assurance Engineer -- Contract Manufacturing

Job Description

Job Description

Do these challenges excite you?

• Owning day-to-day quality with contract manufacturers and key suppliers.
• Driving supplier audits to maintain compliance to internal and regulatory standards, then reporting outcomes via dashboards and KPIs.
• Closing SCARs with airtight root cause analysis and verified corrective actions.
• Partnering cross-functionally to evaluate and qualify new suppliers that fuel an AI-powered robotics platform.
• Using Lean, Six Sigma, and structured problem-solving to eliminate defects and reduce risk.

Our mission

Symbotic reimagines the warehouse with an AI-driven software and robotics platform that helps the world’s largest retailers and distributors move goods with extraordinary speed, accuracy, and flexibility. The Quality team is central to that mission—guiding products from prototype to production, validating processes, preventing defects early, and using field and product data to continually raise the bar on performance.

Your responsibilities

• Serve as the primary supplier quality contact for assigned suppliers/CMs.
• Execute quality plans, perform supplier audits, and ensure compliance with internal and regulatory requirements; publish periodic KPI dashboards.
• Lead SCARs through closure, ensuring robust RCA and durable corrective actions.
• Support supplier evaluation and qualification in close partnership with Supply Chain, Engineering, and External Manufacturing.
• Facilitate continuous improvement using Lean, Six Sigma, and practical problem-solving.
• Other duties as assigned.

What you’ll need to succeed

• Bachelor’s in engineering or related field preferred; relevant experience required.
• 5+ years of supplier quality engineering in a regulated manufacturing environment preferred.
• Depth in quality systems and tools: FMEA, DOE, MSA/GRR, 8D.
• Experience with Control Plans, FMEAs, and PPAP (or equivalent part approval processes).
• Strong engineering fundamentals with an eye for critical control points.
• Proficiency with SAA, Minitab, and JMP; advanced Excel for data analysis and organization.
• Clear communicator with strong quantitative/analytical skills; able to translate data into decisions.
• CQE and Six Sigma Black Belt preferred (must demonstrate deep core knowledge).
• ISO 9001 or AS9100 auditor certification (current or prior) preferred.

Travel and working norms

• Up to 25% travel, domestic and international. Must hold a valid driver’s license and be able to drive and/or fly to supplier sites.
• Employees must own a credit card and manage expenses personally for bi-weekly reimbursement.

Why Symbotic

Our end-to-end platform fuses high-density storage, machine learning, and advanced robotics to transform distribution economics. As a Supplier Quality leader, you’ll directly shape system reliability and the pace of innovation for global retail, wholesale, and food & beverage customers. Learn more:

Equal Opportunity

We are a community of innovators, collaborators and pioneers who embrace our differences, because we know unique perspectives make us stronger and smarter. Every perspective matters. We depend on the collective voices of our employees, customers and community to help guide us as we build a better place to work – for you and the world. That’s why we’re proud to be an equal opportunity employer.

We do not discriminate based on race, color, ethnicity, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship status, marital status, disability, gender identity, gender expression, veteran status, or genetic information.

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