Supplier Quality Engineer - Battery Plant
Schaeffler · Wooster, OH
- Level
- Engineer
- Team
- Quality
- Degree
- Required
- Experience asked
- 1+ years
- Industry
- Automotive
- Posted
- Recently
The role in 30 seconds
An engineer-level quality role at Schaeffler (automotive) in Wooster, OH.
- They ask for
- 1+ years · degree required
- Tools it names
- PPAP, APQP, Supplier quality
Read from the posting. The full description is below.
From the plant jobs report · week of October 19, 2026
Quality Engineer roles in Ohio: typical posted base $90k–$130k.
Median of the low and high ends of 4 live postings that list pay, out of 46 quality engineer openings in Ohio, read from manufacturers' own careers sites.
Ohio plant jobs report →Pay by team and state →What moves pay →
How this role compares
Against 45 other live quality postings in Ohio.
- Experience asked
- Less than usual (1+ vs 5+)
Similar roles usually ask 5+ years.
Skills these teams ask for most
- Root cause 70%
- ISO 9001 54%
- ✓ Supplier quality 50%
- ✓ PPAP 50%
- FMEA 39%
- ✓ APQP 37%
✓ = this posting asks for it too. % = share of similar postings that mention it.
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This plant: Schaeffler in Wooster
2 other open roles at this site.
- Industrial Engineer · Industrial
- Supplier Quality Engineer - Wooster Plant · Quality
Full description from SchaefflerAs posted on their careers site.ShowHide
Key Responsibilities
- ◆Oversee quality control of supplied products within the order fulfillment process.
- ◆Address and resolve any supplier quality issues that arise in the plant.
- ◆Collaborate with suppliers during product development to support advanced quality planning.
- ◆Focus on cost efficiency and producibility during product development stages.
- ◆Conduct supplier evaluations to ensure ongoing adherence to quality standards.
- ◆Manage supplier process changes, initiating and coordinating corrective actions to maintain agreed quality levels.
- ◆Lead the sampling inspection process, making decisive judgments on sample acceptance or rejection.
- ◆Coordinate claim management during series production.
- ◆Act as an escalation point to agree on and implement remedial action plans until resolution.
- ◆Train suppliers on APQP (Advanced Product Quality Planning) and PPAP (Production Part Approval Process) requirements.
- ◆Ensure suppliers' adherence to agreed quality planning and approval processes.
Your
Qualifications
- ✓Bachelor's degree in an engineering related field and 1 year of experience.
- ✓Proven experience as a Supplier Quality Engineer or similar role.
- ✓Strong understanding of quality assurance processes and techniques, including APQP and PPAP.
- ✓Exceptional problem-solving and analytical skills.
- ✓Excellent communication and interpersonal abilities.
- ✓Ability to work collaboratively with cross-functional teams and suppliers.
- ✓Experience in supplier evaluation and corrective action management.
- ✓External applicants must be authorized to work in the US without employment VISA or other sponsorship.
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Schaeffler is a dynamic global technology company and its success has been a result of its entrepreneurial spirit and long history of private ownership. As a partner to all of the major automobile manufacturers, as well as key players in the aerospace and industrial sectors, we offer you many development opportunities.
Your
Our Offering
- •Medical, dental and vision insurance
- •Life insurance and 401k eligible with up to 6% company match
- •Regular employee appreciation and company events
- •Please see all our benefit offerings at Schaeffler Benefits
As a global company with employees around the world, it is important to us that we treat each other with respect and value all ideas and perspectives. By appreciating our differences, we inspire creativity and drive innovation. In this way, we contribute to sustainable value creation for our stakeholders and society as a whole. Together, we advance how the world moves.
Exciting assignments and outstanding development opportunities await you because we impact the future with innovation. We look forward to your application.
https://www.schaeffler.us/careers/
Your contact
Schaeffler Battery Technology, LLC
Roberto Celorio
+1(803)802-4046
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