Lead Supplier Quality Engineer

Company Description

Veolia Water Technologies & Solutions (VWTS) is a worldwide leader in water recovery, treatment, and reuse. We design, supply, and service a range of water systems and monitoring equipment in industries ranging from pharmaceutical to food and beverage applications, and from microelectronics ultrapure water to municipal water and industrial wastewater treatment.

We are one of the world’s leading manufacturers of total organic carbon (TOC) analyzers and corresponding certified reference materials.

Our ground-breaking endotoxin analyzer is the latest addition to our expanding analytical instruments portfolio. We strive to provide not only superior technology and design, but also outstanding quality, service, and application support.

Job Description

Key Characteristics

• Ability to be self-lead and motivated is critical to success in this role.
• Experience with delivering and managing technical projects in the Oil and Gas, Commercial construction, or other similar high specification industries.
• Ability to manage multiple stakeholder, issues / high specification projects, and priorities at once while driving swift resolution of issues.

Duties & Responsibilities

• Manage the quality of externally supplied materials in support of customer projects and products. This includes the disposition of supplier non-conformances and issuance / management of Supplier Corrective Action Reports (SCAR).
• Collaborate with internal engineering and external suppliers to determine feasibility of designs for manufacturability at external vendors.
• Perform root cause analysis, involving engineering and other key departments, for supplier non-conformance issues.
• Audit current suppliers to evaluate risk by monitoring changes in management, key personnel, and process changes.
• Support the development of new and existing suppliers by improving their quality management systems to improve overall part and documentation quality.
• Determine quality requirements for highly technical projects drawing from customer, internal, and industry specifications.
• Mitigate quality and project risks through the addition of inspections and other methods to ensure compliance to all project requirements.

Hard Skills

• Proven experience in reading and deciphering engineering drawings and other related industrial specifications.
• Practical experience with special processes (welding, casting, molding, etc.).
• Ability to work with suppliers to manage relationships, supplier performance, and product conformance.
• Ability to drive technical discussions with internal and external teams and suppliers in each of the manufacturing / installation sites as defined per project.

Soft Skills

• Expert : Demonstrate subject matter expertise in the field.
• Strategic : Gets the big game. Understands long term. Respects short term but doesn’t get hung up in the noise.
• Inspirational : Ability to inspire / motivate others.
• Curious : Ability to pose high impact questions, seeing opportunities in areas where others see problems.
• Courageous : Champions ideas and helps transform them into actions.
• Humble : Respectful towards peers, team members, leadership and stakeholders.
• Holistic : Think customer and Company first.
• Accountable : Demonstrates responsibility ownership and commitment. Taking responsibility for making tough calls when necessary.
• Ambitious : Identifies underlying truths and comes up with ideas that change the way we conceptualize issues, depicts vision of future that rallies teams to compete in new ways.

Qualifications

Required

• Bachelor’s degree in mechanical or chemical engineering or other technical engineering degree and 5 years of supplier quality or inspection related work experience.
• Work experience with steel fabrication, pressure vessels, plastic injection molding, oil and gas or water treatment systems, and / or electromechanical assembly processes.
• Work experience with QRQC, Lean Six Sigma, DOE, Deming Cycle, FMEA, 8D, APQP, Control Plan, PPAP, MSA, etc.

Preferred

• Previous project management experience from ITO (Inquiry to Order) to OTR (Order to Remittance)
• Technical inspection experience or certification in welding, NDT, and other disciplines.
• Working knowledge of NSF, AWS and welding codes and Canadian equivalents.
• Business and Technical English Language Knowledge.
• Qualified ISO9001 auditor or equivalent.

Working Conditions

• Up to 20% domestic and international travel as required.
• Visits to supplier and customer sites that may be located outdoors or in other exposed environments.
• Office / Remote opportunities available.

Additional Information

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

As an inclusive company, Veolia is committed to diversity and gives equal consideration to all applications, without discrimination.