Supplier Quality Engineer EMEA - Plating & Painting
Employer · Eaton Corporation
Production engineer
Quality inspectorOther engineerFlexibleFull-timeBudapest
At Eaton, we're dedicated to enhancing quality of life and protecting the environment with our innovative energy management technologies and services. Our EMEA Business Service Center (BSC) in Budapest is Eaton's largest office in the region. We are looking for a Supplier Quality Engineer to own and monitor commodity and sector supplier-quality performance, risk prioritization, and systemic quality improvement.
Tasks
- Own and monitor commodity DPPM, supplier-quality performance, Pareto trends, chronic suppliers, and cross-site patterns.
- Prioritize suppliers and commodity quality risks using performance, recurrence, business impact and cross-site exposure.
- Lead structured supplier-quality problem solving for complex, chronic, recurring, systemic, and cross-site issues.
- Challenge and validate supplier root cause and corrective action, ensuring rigor, evidence, and recurrence prevention.
- Drive systemic corrective action, chronic supplier recovery, and commodity-level quality improvement.
- Plan and execute risk-based supplier audits and convert findings into prioritized quality-improvement actions.
- Identify systemic quality risks across sites and coordinate cross-site corrective action and standardization where required.
- Engage SDE commodity/process SMEs when quality risk exposes a manufacturing capability, process, capacity, scalability, rate-readiness, or specialized technical gap.
- Support defined APQP/PPAP quality activities and supplier-quality readiness for high-risk launches, changes, and transfers.
- Verify effectiveness and sustained reduction of supplier and commodity quality risk.
Conditions & benefits
Hybrid work modelAnnual bonusCafeteriaPrivate Medical InsuranceLife InsuranceEye-glass refundAYCM partnershipInternal reward system (E-Stars)
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in engineering, Manufacturing, Quality, Supply Chain, or related technical discipline
- Minimum 5 years of relevant experience in Manufacturing, Quality, Supply Chain, or related technical discipline
- Expertise in plating and painting is required
- Additional experience in: plastic injection, molding, casting nonferrous, PCBA and electronics is an advantage
- Demonstrated experience of manufacturing process and area of assessing manufacturing capability and driving process supplier improvement
- Working knowledge of APQP, PPAP, PFMEA, Control Plans, MSA, SPC, and structured problem solving
- Knowledge of Lean / Continuous Improvement methodologies