Supplier Quality Engineer
Mercury MarineAre 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. 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. 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. Process Management & Compliance: maintain standardized supplier quality processes and system integrity to ensure traceability, compliance, and accurate communication across the supply chain. Continuous Improvement: drive continuous improvement initiatives to enhance supplier performance, reduce defects, and strengthen overall supply chain quality and process capability. Diversity of thought and experiences is fundamental when imagining the unimaginable. Certain skillsets/experiences are necessary; however, others can be developed along the way. Required Qualifications: …