Description: 
Job Title: Senior Supplier Quality Engineer 
Job Code: SAS20212801-55748
Job Location: Clifton, NJ
Job Description: 
This position is responsible for quality improvement issues related to suppliers and/or subcontractors of materials, products or services used in development or manufacturing.
  * Analyze supplier performance and develop improvement plans for identified problem areas to drive down supplier DPPM and nonconformance rates.
  * Use Six Sigma & Lean concepts for supplier improvement of quality and delivery metrics.
  * Provide training for basic quality methodologies to support supplier partnerships.
  * Support programs assessing potential new suppliers.
  * Implement Supplier Partnership concepts with focus suppliers.
  * Review, analyze and report on quality discrepancies related to assembly, process, mechanical, machining, fabrication, electronics and electro-mechanical systems.
  * Perform and evaluate root cause and corrective action to correct product/process deficiencies, ensuring implementation with suppliers and effectiveness of actions.
  * Perform elements of Advanced Product Quality Planning (Process Flow Diagrams, Failure Mode Effects Analysis, Control Plans, Measurement System Analysis, and First Articles).
  * Perform SPC, Predictive Quality methodologies, and problem-solving methodologies.
  * Implement Zero Defect Plans (ZDP) with critical suppliers, acting as the key technical interface between suppliers and L3Harris by assisting suppliers to develop robust processes, performing process/product validations, recommending manufacturability improvements (process and design). 
Qualifications: 
  * Bachelor's Degree and minimum 6 years of prior relevant experience. Graduate Degree and a minimum of 4 years of prior related experience.
  * Experience in Cables/Connectors and electronics assembly.
  * Experience with Root Cause Analysis (RCA) using standard RCA tools.
  * Experience performing trend analysis.
Preferred Additional Skills:
  * Willingness to travel up to 75% percent.
  * Ability to work in a team environment.
  * Working knowledge of PPAP implementation and associated elements.
  * Experience with Predictive Quality and problem-solving methodologies.
  * ISO9001/AS9100 and process audit experience.
  * Interactive skills, strong written and communication skills.
  * Supplier Development and Engagement experience.
  * Experience presenting to upper-level management.
  * Experience with Predictive Quality.
  * Lean Concepts experience.
  * Commodity management experience.
  * Supplier Development and Engagement experience.
  * Special process audit experience.
  * ZDP Project Management.
  * Due to the nature of our work, this position may require the ability to obtain and maintain a Department of Defense security clearance.
  * Ability to focus, prioritize, and multi-task successfully to drive projects to closure.
New York, New York
L3 Technologies, Inc. provides aircraft sustainment, simulation and training, night vision and image intensification equipment, and security and detection systems used on military, homeland security, and commercial platforms in the United States and internationally. It operates in three segments: Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (ISR) Systems; Communications and Networked Systems; and Electronic Systems. The company offers engineering, modernization and sustainment, space avionics and imaging payload, counter unmanned aircraft systems mission, cyber and electronic warfare, special mission command and control, modeling and simulation, and life cycle support services for ISR, airborne sensor, warrior sensor, space and sensor, aircraft, and intelligence and mission systems, as well as for military aviation services and advanced programs.
It also provides network and communication systems, secure communications products, radio frequency components, satellite communication terminals and space, microwave and telemetry products, and secure data links in broadband communication, naval power, space and power, maritime sensor systems, and advanced communications.
In addition, the company offers components, products, subsystems, and systems, as well as related services to military and commercial customers in commercial aviation solutions, precision engagement systems, link training and simulation, and security and detection systems. It serves the United States (U.S.) Department of Defense and its prime contractors, the U.S. Government intelligence agencies, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, foreign governments, and commercial customers.
The company was formerly known as L-3 Communications Holdings, Inc. and changed its name to L3 Technologies, Inc. in December 2016. L3 Technologies, Inc. was founded in 1997 and is headquartered in New York, New York. As of June 29, 2019, L3 Technologies, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of L3Harris Technologies, Inc.