Supplier Quality Specialist Hiroshima, Japan Featured

Job Description

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Boeing Commercial Airplanes Supplier Quality team is seeking a Supplier Quality Specialist. This position is to lead audits and assessments of complex suppliers systems, processes and products. Documents and reports audit and assessment results. Provides education and coaching on quality systems, regulatory compliance issues and company initiatives. Develops training materials and other resources to support improvements in supplier performance and productivity.  This position is based in Hiroshima.  

Position Responsibilities:

Daily responsibilities include but are not limited to:

• Primary work location is at a supplier’s facility.
• Under general supervision, plans, organizes and leads audits and assessments of suppliers systems, processes and products.
• Documents and reports key supplier metrics, audit and assessment results to leadership and stakeholders.
• Provides supplier education and coaching on quality systems, regulatory compliance issues and company initiatives.
• Evaluates and develops improvement plans for key suppliers.
• Resolves routine issues and concerns.
• Analyzes supplier’s key performance indices and identifies areas of improvement.
• Establishes Inspection Plan for supplier’s products and perform inspection.
• Establish Surveillance Plan for supplier’s Quality Management and Production System and performs surveillance.
• Performs follow-up on audit and assessment findings.
• Inspects or verifies products for compliance with requirements and documents findings.
• Ensures supplier notifications of quality escapes are processed.
• Assists with assessments of supplier capability and capacity to perform current or potential future work.
• Provides technical expertise on specific manufacturing processes to suppliers.
• Investigates and resolves routine issues to ensure supplier compliance to established requirements.
• Monitors quality, delivery, work in process, systemic issues and program impacts to determine needed corrective actions and improvements to supplier performance.
• Interprets routine requirements and resolves supplier issues and concerns.
• Leads preventive activities as well as corrective action activities with suppliers to address the root cause of quality escapes.
• Drives the implementation of Advanced Product Quality Planning (APQP) and Production Part Approval Process (PPAP) with suppliers to shift quality approach from detection to prevention.

Basic Qualifications (Required Skill/Experience):

• 3 or more years related work experience.
• Business level English (Written and Spoken)

Preferred Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s in Engineering Degree preferred
• Quality Systems/Standards: Knowledge of quality systems, for example, Boeing Quality Management System (BQMS), International Organization for Standardization (ISO9001), Aerospace Standard (AS9100), Requirements for Advanced Product Quality Planning and Production Part Approval Process (AS9145).
• Business level of Japanese (Written and Spoken)

Typical Education / Experience:

• Education/experience typically acquired through advanced education (e.g. Bachelor) and typically 3 or more years related work experience or an equivalent combination of education and experience.

Location:

The selected candidate will be required to work on-site (with some flex) at supplier’s location in Hiroshima.

Relocation:

Relocation assistance is not a negotiable benefit for this position. Candidates must live in the immediate area or relocate at their own expense.

Employer is not willing to sponsor applicants for employment visa status.

Other Job-related Information:

This requisition is for a locally hired position. Benefits and pay are determined at the local level and are not on Boeing US-based payroll.

Other information will be provided through selection process.

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Applications for this position will be accepted until Apr. 16, 2026

Language Requirements

Japanese Preferred

Relocation

Relocation assistance is not a negotiable benefit for this position.

Visa Sponsorship

Employer will not sponsor applicants for employment visa status.

Shift

Not a Shift Worker (Japan)

Equal Opportunity Employer:

We are an equal opportunity employer. We do not accept unlawful discrimination in our recruitment or employment practices on any grounds including but not limited to; race, color, ethnicity, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, physical or mental disability, genetic factors, military and veteran status, or other characteristics covered by applicable law.

We have teams in more than 65 countries, and each person plays a role in helping us become one of the world’s most innovative, diverse and inclusive companies. We are proud members of the Valuable 500 and welcome applications from candidates with disabilities. Applicants are encouraged to share with our recruitment team any accommodations required during the recruitment process. Accommodations may include but are not limited to: conducting interviews in accessible locations that accommodate mobility needs, encouraging candidates to bring and use any existing assistive technology such as screen readers and offering flexible interview formats such as virtual or phone interviews.