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email:Experienced quality professional with over a decade of hands-on expertise in ISO 9001 and VDA 6.3 auditing, supplier assessments, and process evaluations. As a certified auditor and trusted expert, I’ve led numerous audits across diverse manufacturing environments, driving compliance, continuous improvement, and operational excellence.

My work bridges technical depth with strategic insight—ensuring suppliers meet stringent automotive and industrial standards while supporting internal teams through robust quality systems and root cause analysis.

💼 Key competencies:

ISO 9001 & VDA 6.3 audits&ISO 13485

Supplier quality management

Process capability

Internal release coordination

Cross-functional collaboration

Languages

English
Native or bilingual
German
Conversational

Workplace preferences

Can work on-site

Holzgerlingen (up to 50km)

Stuttgart/Böblingen/GER, Philips
Supplier Quality Engineer
May 2022 - Today (4 years and 1 month)
• New supplier selections and evaluations for plastic and metal commodities on global basis.
• Resolving quality issues via structured quality methods to ensure efficient and effective root cause analysis and corrective / preventive actions that ensure there is no recurrence or occurrence.
• Executing supplier audits and monitoring supplier project performances
• APQP plan development, execution, monitoring, and control as part of Sustaining Changes.
• Support Supplier audit schedule development, execution, and maintenance.
• Plan and execute supplier audits to applicable standards for example ISO9001 , ISO13485 and ISO17025.
• Support internal and external audits of Philips
Stuttgart/GER, Lear Corporation
Advanced Supplier Engineer ASQ
June 2020 - December 2021 (1 year and 6 months)
• Track and perform APQP activities with suppliers
• Ensuring that all supplier report their status and PPAP
• Auditing and developing suppliers, new suppliers implementation
Stuttgart/GER,
Supplier Quality Assurance (SQA) Engineer
March 2019 - June 2020 (1 year and 3 months)
Faurecia Gorzów, Gorzów Wielkopolski, LB, Poland
• Reviewing of the BOP (Bought-Out Parts) process for new third party parts together with the support and in cooperation with the Advanced Supplier Quality Engineer and/or the Quality Engineer Program,
• Management of process audits of externally purchased parts,
• Consolidation of the required supplier quality indicators for a production line,
• Introduction and validation of corrective and preventive actions for suppliers,
• Management of the progress plan of the suppliers in cooperation with the plant purchasers,
• Approval of the Production Part Approval Process (PPAP) after confirmation by the program quality engineer and the quality assurance of the production facilities.
• Confirmation of the ASQ program transition document and cooperation in putting together the lessons learned.