Supplier Quality Engineer

Lead Supplier Quality Engineer

The INNIO Advantage: By combining a rich legacy in the power and gas compression space with pioneering technology, INNIO brings our customers affordable, reliable and sustainable energy solutions for today and tomorrow. We are helping to meet today's energy needs with 64 GW of installed capacity and more than 50,000 of our powerful Jenbacher and Waukesha engines, which can be found in more than 100 countries. And, by harnessing our history of energy industry firsts along with the power of digital innovation, we will continue to deliver for the future.

Role Description: The Lead Supplier Quality Engineer is responsible for high product quality, customer value beyond expectations, regulatory compliance, and optimized cost of quality. This role is the technical focal point for supplier activities aimed at improving process control and quality assurance of purchased parts/components to strengthen the collaboration between INNIO and its suppliers.

Essential Responsibilities:

• Managing supply base focused on engineered systems
• Act as primary interface between suppliers and INNIO internal functions on technical issues and collaborate with Sourcing, Manufacturing, Engineering and Planning
• Conduct supplier audits and ensure that suppliers comply with quality procedures, standards and technical regulations
• Lead qualification projects for new parts and new suppliers with focus on defect prevention.
• Lead efforts to reduce product defects and cost of quality, perform root cause analyses when necessary and dispose supplier deviation requests and non-conformities
• Lead supplier development activities: drive continuous improvement initiatives with suppliers and provide quality input for supplier scorecards

Qualification Requirements:

• Technical degree, preferably in engineering, from an accredited university or college or equivalent
• Minimum of 5 years job-related experience in the (supplier) quality field in an industrial manufacturing environment.
• Strong communication, problem-solving and project management skills within cross-functional and cross-regional teams
• Independent, proactive, fast response, flexible work style
• Ability and willingness to travel up to 40% of the time primarily in the United States

INNIO offers a great work environment, professional development, challenging careers, and competitive compensation. INNIO is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, religion, national or ethnic origin, gender (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, veteran status or any other characteristics protected by law.