Lead Supplier Quality Engineer

About Halter At Halter, we’re on a mission to enable farmers and graziers to run the most productive and sustainable operations. Our customers are using Halter to break free from the time-intensive constraints of conventional practices. Imagine watching 500 cattle stand up and walk calmly towards their next break? No quad bikes, no dogs, no fences. Just a group of cattle walking at their own pace. People say it looks like magic. Our customers are revolutionizing grazing with Halter. It's changing lives and transforming an industry. People join Halter to do meaningful work. By joining us you’ll be solving challenging problems within a talented team and a culture built for high performance. Our team out-think, out-work and out-care. We’re committed to delivering real change in the world - this isn’t easy, and in truth, we love that it’s hard.

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About the roleHalter is searching for a Lead Supply Quality Engineer to take responsibility for ensuring that every component in our supply chain is delivered at quality and on time.

If you are an expert in implementing and managing quality systems to catch issues early, resolve them quickly, and ensure high-quality components are always delivered on-time at our Contract Manufacturers, we want to talk to you!

Our Hardware manufacturing is accelerating quickly to satisfy our growing global markets and it is vital that every component that is shipped to our contract manufacturers in Asia is ready for the tough environment it will face on farm, once it is assembled into Halter hardware.

What your day could look like

Implement statistical process control methods for the manufacturing process of critical parts and work with the suppliers to ensure this is reflected in their process control plan

After a failure during production or OQC inspection at a supplier, run a rapid sprint analysis with design engineers to unblock the release of the shipment with risk-mitigative actions and keep production running with effective preventive measures

Update and implement quality control documentation to protect against future failures, based on root cause analysis that identified a component issue after, first flagged when a collar went offline on a farm in Australia

Audit the compliance with Halter’s quality requirements at a new supplier and work with the supplier to quickly close any non-conformances you found

What we are looking for:

5+ years of experience in quality management for high-volume manufacturing. Production of electromechanical products is preferred

Committed to personal development and staying current with relevant industry standards, methods, and trends.

Proven experience in responding to and resolving quality issues rapidly to minimise production disruption

Demonstrated first principles thinking and ability to hone in on the most important issues during audit or reviewing problems

Experience in working with suppliers to achieve required outcomes based on context

High proficiency (written, verbal and reading)...