Supplier Quality Engineer

Position Overview:

Join our team and help us build in 2026! In this role, you’ll work as a primary Quality Assurance resource for inspection of all incoming products.  You'll have the opportunity to design and recommend processes for efficient and quality manufacturing.  You'll work closely with both domestic and international suppliers to ensure the highest level of quality for the customer. These products are designed to delight the customer and are secured at competitive levels for cost, quality, and delivery.                

We value teamwork and a positive work environment, and you’ll have opportunities to learn new skills and grow your career with us.

What you bring to the table: 

• Lead Supplier performance improvement initiatives
• Lead ISO Internal Auditor
• Responsible for contacting suppliers on quality issues
• Approve SCARs, tracking Supplier improvements implementations and supplier improvement plans to ensure eradication of quality issues
• Oversee and provide guidance on supplier’s APAP launch process
• Maintain metrics on Supplier quality
• Perform Supplier quality system assessment
• Provide final supplier PPAP approval
• Collaborate with MRB/RTV to help obtaining return authorizations from Suppliers and proper disposition of materials
• Ensure proper Supplier chargebacks as necessary
• Routinely travel to both domestic and international Customers/Suppliers
• Manage supplier information and the print change process for suppliers
• Assist the Quality Lab as required
• Perform all other duties as assigned

 Knowledge, Skills, Abilities 

• Bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering or equivalent/related technical degree preferred
• HS Diploma, ISO experience and at least 5 years of work experience in quality assurance required
• Proficiency to manage multiple concurrent projects across various stakeholder teams
• Demonstrated self-starter with the ability to deliver results aligned with the business objectives
• Communication proficiency to negotiate supplier improvements and monitor supplier performance
• Able to travel both domestically and internationally up to 50% as needed

What Schafer offers:

• Competitive Pay
• 401(k) matching
• Health, Vision, Dental, Disability & Life insurance
• Paid vacation
• Paid holidays
• Matching charitable donations and paid time off for community service
• And more!

Why Schafer?

We are a growth-oriented company with a diversified customer base that is committed to a culture of safety and continuous improvement. You will enjoy a collaborative work environment where your talents and opinions matter, and we provide various opportunities in support of your career development. We live our values of Safety, Integrity, Responsibility to Others, Customer Focus, Continuous Improvement and Accountability in all that we do. Compensation and benefits are competitive, reflecting experience and qualifications.  

About The Company

Schafer Industries is a rapidly growing premier supplier of off-highway axles and differentiated precision gearing solutions. Established in 1934, Schafer Industries has locations in South Bend, IN, Roscoe, IL, Fredericktown, OH and Blacklick, OH. Schafer Industries is one of the few manufacturers of integrated axle solutions in the off-highway electric vehicle market. Schafer also serves customers in a variety of end markets including recreational vehicles, aerospace, defense, oil & gas, material handling, powertrain, electric mobility, heavy duty trucking, agriculture, and construction. Our mission is to leverage world class capabilities to deliver superior products and services to maximize the value for our customers, employees, shareholders, and communities.

Schafer Industries is an EEO/AAP Employer: 

Our company is committed to providing equal employment opportunity. This means that we make employment decisions on the basis of job-related qualifications, skills and abilities and not on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national original, disability, veteran status, or any other basis protected by law.  As a federal subcontractor, we are also required to take affirmative action, or proactive measures, to prevent discrimination.