Business Title: Supplier Quality Specialist II
Contract position: Up to 1 year
20-40 hours per week
Hire date: Immediate
On-site position
$25-$27 per hour
Sub-Function Description: This position will play a crucial role in ensuring the quality and reliability of the products and materials supplied by our vendors and suppliers. Their primary responsibility will be to develop, implement, and maintain effective quality control processes and standards for our suppliers, ensuring their compliance with our company's quality requirements. Supporting customer complaints and warranty program application, credits and returns processing, and quality in warehouse inventory. Acts as the feedback control for upstream changes in the Supply Chain. They will work closely with our procurement team, suppliers, and internal stakeholders to drive continuous improvement and maintain a high level of product quality throughout our supply chain.
Organizational Impact: Works to achieve day-to-day objectives with limited impact on area. Delivers level responsibilities following a defined standard output or set of procedures. Work consists of tasks that are very routine, or well-defined, with specific instructions to achieve standardized solutions. Work is closely supervised.
Position Type: Full-time, Independent Contractor
Knowledge & Experience: High School Diploma preferred. 2+ years’ experience in a Quality Assurance/Control preferred.
Essential Functions | Accountabilities | Performance Measures
- Inspects new products and changes to existing products and conducts tests to assure compliance to requirements.
- Dimensions parts for compliance to blueprints and monitors, inspects and audits production parts and assemblies as required.
- Inspects stock as related to customer complaints. Identifies problems related to products, conducts and documents testing results as specified by the Quality Assurance Engineer to ensure specifications and requirements can be met.
- Documents and communicates with CFS supply chain, production, and management on in-process and/or incoming rejections for corrective actions of return product or unacceptable parts and products.
- Conducts site audits of suppliers’ processes and production to assure they are in compliance.
- Supports the preparation of Quality Assurance Documentation for CFS and our supply partners.
- Conducts test runs and monitors and follows up with QA management on quality documentation and necessary corrective actions to ensure the purchase of quality products.
- Works with Quality Assurance Engineer on new product testing or changes to existing product evaluations.
- Prepares and submits weekly activities report to Quality Assurance Manager/ Quality Engineer.
- Conducts incoming material and product audits based on established specifications.
- Selects products for tests at specified stages within the production process, tests products for a variety of qualities, such as dimensions and performance criteria and documents findings.
- Conducts cycle and performance tests on components parts and assemblies.
- Records test data, applying statistical process evaluation techniques where appropriate.
- Coordinates incoming documentation for returned goods due to customer complaints as required. Audits returned parts and recommends disposition based on specifications. Reports all rejections to Quality Assurance Engineer as required.
- Remains current on quality initiative programs and equipment.
- Performs dimensional evaluation (PPAP) on components and final assembly or new products and revisions to existing product and components.
- Performs related duties as directed.
Communication & Influence: Communicates with contacts typically within the immediate work unit on matters that typically involve obtaining or providing information requiring little explanation or interpretation.
Problem Solving & Complexity: Problems and issues faced are routine and solutions clearly prescribed. Follows a well-established and familiar set of activities and/or process to derive a solution. Has responsibility for checking data and information for minor changes.
Certificates | Licenses | Registrations: None
Travel Required: 10%
Work Environment: Manufacturing and Distribution
Physical Demands:
- Wear safety attire and protective gear on a daily basis.
- Work indoors. This site may not be temperature controlled.
- Often exposed to loud sounds and distracting noise levels.
- Are exposed to mobile equipment on a daily basis.
- May share workspace with others
The physical and work environment demands are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
CFS Brands:
In Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, CFS BRANDS is a market-leading designer, manufacturer, and distributor of commercial food service, healthcare, and industrial janitorial and sanitation products. The company supports stable and growing end markets that are supported by strong tailwinds.
CFS BRANDS has maintained a market-leading position and continually grown in its segments with relentless customer support, leading product breadth and availability, and a “one-stop shop” solution serving both “front” and “back” of restaurants with a focus on customer intimacy. CFS BRANDS enjoys a unique competitive advantage with the ability to produce in-house with 6 manufacturing facilities in the U.S. and Mexico, over 700,000 square feet of distribution center space in 4 U.S. facilities, and the ability to source products from all over the world.
CFS BRANDS’s core products include dinnerware, professional cookware, cleaning tools, drinkware, disposable lids, dispensing systems, healthcare equipment, brushes, and cleaning tools. These products are provided through major distributors to the country’s best-known restaurant franchises.
CFS BRANDS became a portfolio company of The Jordan Company (“TJC”), a private equity firm, in 2018. With over $8 billion in cumulative equity commitments, TJC is among the world’s most respected investors in leading middle-market businesses. The TJC team enjoys a storied history of partnering with exceptional management teams to create long-term value for management and investors.
More information on CFS BRANDS can be found at www.cfsbrands.com. The Jordan Company website is www.thejordancompany.com.
CFS Brands is committed to creating an inclusive work environment with a diverse workforce. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age or veteran status. This employer participates in E-Verify. The employer will provide the Social Security Administration (SSA) and, if necessary, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) with information from each new employee’s I-9 to confirm work authorization.
