Supplier Quality Engineer

Are you ready for what’s next?   Come explore opportunities within Brunswick, a global marine leader committed to challenging conventions and innovating next-generation technologies that transform experiences on the water and beyond.  Brunswick believes “Next Never Rests™,” and we offer a variety of exciting careers and growth opportunities within united teams defining the future of marine recreation.  Location: St. Cloud, Florida Workplace Category: Onsite Travel Required: Up to 30% (domestic and limited international) Direct Reports: No Pay Range:  $73,600 – $106,200 Visa Sponsorship: Applicants must be currently authorized to work in the United States.  This position is not eligible for employment visa sponsorship now or in the future.   Relocation: Yes Innovation is the heart of Brunswick.  See how your contributions will help transform vision into reality: Position Overview:  The Supplier Quality Engineer (SQE) provides both strategic and tactical leadership to manufacturing by ensuring the quality, reliability, and continuous supply of electronic and plastic injection molded components. This role is responsible for executing Advanced Product Quality Planning in support of the High-Performance Product Development (HPPD) process, driving supplier development, leading corrective action resolution and delivering performance reporting. The SQE serves as the primary owner of supplier quality performance and acts as the first line of defense against supplier-related production risk, ensuring rapid containment, root cause validation, and sustainable corrective actions. Through direct engagement with the global supply base, the SQE ensures all materials consistently meet engineering specifications and process capability requirements, protecting manufacturing operations from line disruptions, quality escapes, and warranty exposure while driving supplier capability and continuous improvement across the supply base. With a strong emphasis on electronics manufacturing (e.g., PCB/SMT processes) and plastic injection molding (e.g., tooling and dimensional control), the SQE ensures suppliers meet technical and process requirements critical to product quality and production continuity. This role plays a key part in supporting Mercury Marine’s broader Plant 7 strategy to expand internal manufacturing capabilities, strengthen supply chain resilience, and drive standardized, scalable quality practices across electronics and plastic injection molding operations. At Brunswick, we have passion for our work and a distinct ability to deliver.  Key Responsibilities: Tactical Supplier Quality: lead and execute supplier quality activities to support production operations, ensuring timely identification, containment, and resolution of supplier-related quality issues while maintaining clear communication and accountability across the supply chain. Own supplier nonconformances from identification through containment, root cause validation, and closure, ensuring issues are resolved in a timely and effective manner Drive corrective actions (SCAR / 8D) with suppliers, ensuring robust root cause analysis, verification of effectiveness, and prevention of recurrence Coordinate and communicate supplier quality issues, risks, and status updates to internal stakeholders to support informed decision-making and production continuity Escalate repeat, high-risk, or systemic supplier issues based on defined thresholds to ensure appropriate visibility and resolution support Ensure linkage between supplier defects, lot traceability, and production impact to enable effective containment and root cause analysis Collaborate with suppliers and cross-functional teams to address quality issues, improve response time, and strengthen overall supplier performance Factory Support: serve as the first line of defense in protecting manufacturing operations from supplier-related disruptions, ensuring rapid containment, risk mitigation, and continuity of material flow to support production performance. Lead containment activities (e.g., controlled shipping, sorting, certified stock) in coordination with suppliers to mitigate production risk and prevent line disruptions Own and drive timely response to supplier-related quality issues impacting production, ensuring rapid containment and recovery actions Partner with Manufacturing and Quality to assess, disposition, and control nonconforming material (MRB) to protect production flow Ensure only conforming material is released to production through appropriate verification and supplier communication Communicate real-time supplier quality risks, material availability constraints, and containment status to internal stakeholders Coordinate supplier actions to restore normal production conditions and prevent recurrence of issues impacting manufacturing APQP / PPAP & Process Readiness: lead supplier readiness and quality performance across the full product lifecycle from development and launch through sustained production, ensuring components consistently meet design, process, and quality requirements while achieving stable, capable, and repeatable supplier processes. Review and approve PPAP submissions and supporting documentation to validate supplier readiness for product launch and ongoing production. Ensure supplier processes are capable, controlled, and aligned to engineering specifications, control plans, and risk mitigation requirements defined through the HPPD / APQP process Validate supplier process controls to ensure supplier process capability, control effectiveness, and consistent delivery of conforming product to specification Drive identification and closure of supplier readiness gaps through APQP activities, including process capability, control effectiveness, and documentation compliance Partner cross-functionally with Engineering, Procurement, and Manufacturing to support new product development, ensuring supplier capability, risk mi