SupplierEngineerwithGerman,Electromechanical

This is a hybrid role. Upon agreement between you and your supervisor, you are entitled to a flexible arrangement where you will be able to split your time between working from the office and working remotely. Fresenius Medical Care is a people business. Our success depends on having the best and brightest employees, and helping them attain their personal and professional goals while delivering excellence in patient care and business results. Our employees embody our culture which is based on core values supporting our promise to improve the quality of life of every patient every day. These core values are: We Care. We Connect. We Commit. As a **Supplier Engineer** , you will collaborate across Fresenius Medical Care (FME) and work with nominated categories of suppliers to proactively ensure the assigned suppliers can routinely meet the quality, reliability (supply, materials etc) performance and cost expectations of FME. Working as a key member of the Electromechanical category team and partnering with other Supplier Development Engineers you are responsible to support the nominated suppliers through the supplier lifecycle (selection through design to sustainable volume production). Based on your strong knowledge in quality tools, you will continually coach and improve the supplier performance and track the relevant KPIs to avoid problems before they arise. **Your responsibilities:** * Evaluation and approval of preferred suppliers in cooperation with Quality & Procurement teams (based on the VDA potential supplier audit) * Qualification of suppliers, process & product according to the Fresenius Advanced Quality Planning (FAQP) program * Securing that the FAQP topics are covered, gate reviews held, and relevant actions monitored in the project team * Assurance of the appropriate production maturity to hand over to the production team including safe launch * Support the design and drawing review to achieve the targeted outcomes for quality standards, structure and c