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Supply Chain Quality Manager
- Compensation
- Not disclosed
- Location
- Not listed
- Work setup
- Not specified
- Seniority
- Not specified
- Employment
- Contract
- Experience
- 7+ years
- Category
- Industrial engineering
- Posted
Skills
Must have
- Education and Experience
- • Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Manufacturing Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Materials Engineering, Quality Engineering, Supply Chain Management, or a related technic
- • Minimum of 7 years of relevant experience in Supplier Quality, Supply Chain Quality, Manufacturing Quality, Quality Engineering, or Quality Management within an industrial, manufacturing, power gene
- • Demonstrated experience qualifying, auditing, releasing, blocking, monitoring, and developing suppliers based on product quality, process capability, compliance, and performance criteria.
- Quality Systems, Supplier Processes, and Technical Knowledge
- • Working knowledge of ISO 9001; experience with ISO 14001, ISO 45001, ISO 19011, BMS governance, customer audits, and supplier audit documentation is preferred.
- • Auditor qualification in accordance with ISO 19011 preferred; Lead Auditor certification is an advantage.
- • Knowledge of manufacturing and supplier processes such as machining, welding, fabrication, assembly, coatings, dimensional inspection, electrical testing, NDT, material certification, and traceabili
- • Ability to interpret drawings, specifications, project quality requirements, ITPs, MGS, QS, GS, EXI, FMEAs, inspection plans, quality plans, contract requirements, supplier documentation, corrective
- • Strong understanding of root-cause analysis, CAPA, 8D, A3, PFMEA, Lean methods, technical risk management, lessons learned, supplier development, and continuous improvement.
- Leadership, Tools, Communication, and Travel
- • Experience coordinating supplier/manufacturing quality activities with Project Quality, Sourcing, Manufacturing, Logistics, Engineering, HSE, and customer-facing project teams.
- • Ability to support customer inspections, witness points, FATs/FAIs, supplier audits, manufacturing visits, quality-release readiness, shipment readiness, and closure of critical NCRs before release
- • Practical knowledge of IT tools including SAP, SharePoint, Microsoft Office, database tracking systems, supplier quality systems, digital quality tools, and reporting/dashboard tools; Power BI exper
- • Strong leadership, coaching, communication, presentation, analytical, decision-making, stakeholder-management, and cross-functional collaboration skills.
- • Fluent English communication skills, written and spoken; additional languages are an advantage.
- • Ability and willingness to travel frequently to supplier, manufacturing, project, and customer locations, up to approximately 50%.
- Don’t meet every single requirement but think you would be a good fit for our team? We encourage you to apply – your unique skills may be just what we need for this or other roles!
- Voith US Inc. is an EEO/AA/VEVRAA compliant Federal Contractor and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, pro
Full description
Supply Chain Quality Manager
Voith Hydro Inc. | Reports to: Head of Supply Chain Quality
Reasons you’ll love working here:
- Flexibility with work/life balance.
- Dress for Your Day dress code.
- Great compensation and benefits package.
- Climate-neutral footprint worldwide.
- Leadership and professional development opportunities.
- Contribute to sustainable hydroelectric energy projects that support clean, reliable power generation worldwide.
- Work in a One Voith environment focused on a consistent, proactive, end-to-end quality approach with early risk visibility and standardized methods.
- Partner with global engineering, manufacturing, sourcing, logistics, project, construction, commissioning, HSE, and quality teams.
- Lead supplier and manufacturing quality improvements that directly affect product conformity, manufacturing readiness, environmental responsibility, shipment quality, and customer satisfaction.
- Develop professionally through supplier audits, ISO management-system activities, Lean continuous improvement, FMEA-based risk prevention, and digital quality/reporting initiatives.
Summary:
- Deploy, lead, and continuously improve supplier quality and supply-chain quality systems, processes, tools, and performance across Voith Hydro.
- Ensure qualified, capable, and compliant suppliers are used to support hydroelectric projects, manufacturing operations, testing, logistics, customer requirements, and project execution.
- Provide functional leadership for supplier qualification and release, supplier audits, supplier performance management, corrective and preventive actions, supplier development, lessons learned, and management-system improvements.
- Serve as a key interface between the project, customer, suppliers, Manufacturing, Sourcing, Logistics, Project Quality, Construction & Commissioning, HSE, and Quality teams.
- Help ensure project quality requirements are deployed across suppliers and manufacturing activities and that quality issues are prevented before shipment and construction/commissioning.
Responsibilities:
Supplier Qualification, Audit, and Performance Management
- Qualify, release, conditionally approve, suspend, or block suppliers based on audits, performance evaluations, certifications, defined criteria, product-specific quality capability, and quality risk.
- Plan, lead, and document supplier audits and supplier surveillance activities in accordance with ISO 19011 practices and Voith Hydro supplier-quality requirements.