Supplier Quality Engineer

At Serta Simmons Bedding, we dare to dream and work differently. We’re proud to be one of the largest bedding manufacturers in North America and lead the way with our iconic brands – Serta®, Beautyrest®, Simmons® and Tuft & Needle®.

When you join our company, you become part of winning team that is excited and committed to helping our customers get a good night’s sleep.

Fueled by care for our people and their safety, we provide inspiring career opportunities, competitive benefits, and employee perks, and most importantly, the chance to make a positive impact in the lives of our customers.

What You’ll Do:

• Work with purchasing to ensure supplier performance is regularly reported and that appropriate and timely corrective actions are implemented.
• Maintain and update critical supplier audit system and schedule
• Conduct supplier audits to drive process standardization, waste elimination and continuous improvement
• Monitor, communicate and improve key supply KPI’s, DPPM and waste reduction
• Establish specific short- and long-term supplier quality goals
• Champion problem solving and root cause analysis activities with suppliers and customers to eliminate recurrence of non-conformances
• Work to resolve supplier technical issues in a timely manner to ensure continuity of supply
• Develop long-term supplier relationships and generate and implement cost reduction ideas
• Aid Design and Manufacturing teams in the evaluation and qualification of new supplier materials following a defined new product development process
• Strategically lead supplier performance improvement projects to increase the supplier capability of consistently meeting SSB requirements. Projects may include process analysis, value stream mapping, process capability and throughput analysis, 6-sigma, 6S and Kaizen events
• Drive “Zero Defect” mentality within the supply base
• Communicate engineering and manufacturing specifications to the supplier technical teams
• Actively manage suppliers to ensure there are no regressions with the implementation of new processes
• Aid in the new, probationary and rejected supplier transition process
• Travel to supplier location to resolve quality problems and conduct audits (QMS and process)
• Assure compliance to all applicable legal requirements pertaining to material/product regulatory aspects and impacts.

How You’ll Do It:

• Understanding of new product introduction and staged gate processes, APQP preferred.
• Advanced Computer skills using Microsoft Office and Mini-TAB applications
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Ability to work will at all levels of the Organization (Professional Corporate staff as well as Plant level Quality Technicians)
• Strong Data analysis and problem-solving skills
• Strong Organizational skills
• QMS methodologies: 8D, Lean, 5 Why’s, Pareto Analysis, Six Sigma, DFMEA, PFMEA, PPAP, Fishbone etc.
• Working knowledge of relevant Quality related Statistics, for example Capability studies, Gage R&R etc.
• Ability to work well with diverse groups of people and function independently of direct supervision.

What You’ll Bring:

• Bachelor’s degree in a technical discipline
• 3-5 years’ experience in a manufacturing environment, or equivalent combination of education and experience
• Travel up to 75% to various environments, including manufacturing locations.

Come Dream With Us!

When you join Serta Simmons Bedding, you become part of our 220-year legacy of sleep solutions with endless opportunities to impact our future for centuries to come.

Once you’re here, you’ll be part of a winning company that invests and supports our team members’ career journeys. We offer competitive benefits, job training, learning and development, and other employee perks such as our employee discount on all products.

SSB requires COVID vaccination for all roles that require air travel and/or any attendance at our corporate offices. In addition to the SSB policy, employees are required to comply with COVID policies established by a vendor or customer.

It is our policy to abide by all federal, state, and local laws prohibiting employment discrimination, with respect to all terms and conditions of employment, based solely on a person’s race, color, religious creed/religion, sex (including pregnancy, sexual orientation, or gender identity), national origin, ancestry, citizenship status, disability, age, military status, or status as a Vietnam-era or special disabled veteran, marital status, registered domestic partner or civil union status, gender (including sex stereotyping or expression), medical condition genetic information (including family medical history), or any other protected status except where a reasonable, bona fide occupational qualification exists.

SSB will provide reasonable accommodations to applicants and employees who need them, as required by law.