Site Supplier Quality Engineer

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McAllen, TX, USA
In-Office
Mid level
Automotive
The Role
Manage supplier quality for automotive components at a Valeo production site. Responsibilities include identifying and containing nonconformities, initiating and tracking supplier incidents, ensuring component conformity and yearly sample approvals, managing PQA status, coordinating PDCA closure, participating in QRQC meetings, monitoring supplier responsiveness, and tracking quality-related chargebacks. The role requires an engineering degree and at least three years of automotive OEM or supplier quality experience.
Summary Generated by Built In

Valeo is a tech global company, designing breakthrough solutions to reinvent the mobility. We are an automotive supplier partner to automakers and new mobility actors worldwide. Our vision? Invent a greener and more secured mobility, thanks to solutions focusing on intuitive driving and reducing CO2 emissions. We are leader on our businesses, and recognized as one of the largest global innovative companies.

Future Opportunity: This posting is for an anticipated future hiring need for 2027. 

Ready to tackle the challenges of the vehicle of the future? Join Valeo and revolutionize the conditions of visibility for both drivers and passengers!


About the Role:


As a Site Supplier Quality Assurance (SQA) Engineer, you are responsible for ensuring that the products and services supplied meet customer and regulatory requirements and for communicating customer requirements and expectations throughout the organization and developing systems to meet them.


Responsibilities Include:

Mission:

  • You will identify and manage the component non conformity issues in the site and actions needed to protect the Valeo assembly lines.
  • You are responsible for conformity control of the components supplied to and into the production site
  • You are target is to achieve 100% capable yearly initial samples 
  • You are in Control of the supplier Plan Do Check Act (PDCA) analysis speed and relevancy until the PDCA closure with a perfect communication to the APU. Site SQA is the link between Supplier Quality Engineer (SQA), Supplier representative and the Valeo production teams.
  • You will track and secure the charge back to the suppliers with Purchasing team support.

Ensure 100% conformity of components supplied on a site level:

  • You contact the supplier as soon as an issue is detected with a purchased component to get the supplier to organize the containment in 24h. Apply the QRQC/SRM/PG rules to open incidents.
  • You confirm the robustness of the containment by looking for recurrence after containment has been set
  • You will ensure 100% yearly conformity of the purchased components in accordance with stage 7 of the Product Quality Assurance (PQA) approval process
  • You will provide yearly initial samples approval with capability evidence
  • Manage the PQA status

Initiate, analyze, report and follow-up on incidents until the PDCA closure:

  • You will initiate the quality incidents to the supplier in accordance with the Supplier Quality Manual (SQM ) after preliminary investigation at the Valeo site has been performed with Valeo site quality
  • You will track  each incident detected at the site and ensure Quick Response reactivity and full PDCA analysis is met in accordance with Group Standard: 24hrs / 5 days / 10 days rule
  • You will pull daily the information from the supplier and / or PG SQA Manager and communicate during the APU and Supplier QRQC
  • You will escalate to PG SQA or Purchasing Manager for any PG SQA or Purchasing Commodity Engineer support required or for any roadblock regarding the incident problem solving activity or the yearly component conformity
  • You will participate in the Supplier and APU QRQC and in Plant QRQC when required

 Manage, consolidate and update the following key indicators on a site level:

  • You will report outstanding supplier issues.
  • You will react to find a quick response from the suppliers (and monitor PD – CA reactivity)
  • You will track the supplier chargebacks due to quality issues.  
  • You will request yearly conformity review for all the purchased components to the suppliers.

What you should have:

  • You have a bachelor's Degree in Engineering
  • You have a minimum of 3 years’ experience in Automotive OEM or at Supplier
  • You have quality and / or Supplier Quality engineering experience


Join us!

Thanks to its strategy focused on innovation, Valeo aims at reducing CO² emissions and developing intuitive driving to propose greener, safer, and smarter mobility. The fantastic (r)evolution towards the vehicle of the future provides amazing career opportunities and challenging jobs!


Diversity by nature

At Valeo, innovation is driven by the diversity, authenticity and energy of its talents. You are looking for new technological and human adventures? Join Valeo and its more than 100.000 employees across the globe! More information about valeo : https://www.valeo.com

Job:

Quality - Suppliers Operational

Organization:

RO/PL Industrial

Schedule:

Full time

Employee Status:

Regular

Job Type:

Permanent contract

Job Posting Date:

2026-10-02

Join Us !
Being part of our team, you will join:
- one of the largest global innovative companies, with more than 20,000 engineers working in Research & Development
- a multi-cultural environment that values diversity and international collaboration
- more than 100,000 colleagues in 31 countries... which make a lot of opportunity for career growth
- a business highly committed to limiting the environmental impact if its activities and ranked by Corporate Knights as the number one company in the automotive sector in terms of sustainable development
More information on Valeo: https://www.valeo.com

Skills Required

  • Bachelor's degree in Engineering
  • Minimum of 3 years of experience in an automotive OEM or supplier environment
  • Experience in quality engineering and/or supplier quality engineering

Valeo US Compensation & Benefits Highlights

The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Valeo US and has not been reviewed or approved by Valeo US.

  • Fair & Transparent Compensation — Fair & Transparent Compensation: Pay is positioned roughly in line with large automotive manufacturers’ ranges, with competitive bases described for engineers, technicians, and select salaried roles.
  • Healthcare Strength — Healthcare Strength: Medical coverage uses major carriers such as Blue Cross/Anthem, and premiums are described as reasonable for many roles, alongside core offerings like life insurance and an employee assistance program.
  • Retirement Support — Retirement Support: A 401(k) with employer match around 5% is referenced, with structures that have included automatic contributions plus match depending on location and time, and current postings list 401(k) matching as a core benefit.

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The Company
HQ: Paris
32,700 Employees
Year Founded: 1923

What We Do

Valeo is an automotive supplier and partner to all automakers worldwide. As a technology company, Valeo proposes innovative products and systems that contribute to the reduction of CO2 emissions and to the development of intuitive driving. In 2020, the Group generated sales of 16.4 billion euros and invested 12% of its original equipment sales in Research and Development. At December 31, 2020, Valeo had 187 plants, 20 research centers, 43 development centers and 15 distribution platforms, and employed 110,300 people in 33 countries worldwide. Valeo is listed on the Paris Stock Exchange.

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