Senior Supplier Quality Engineer

The Opportunity

The Senior Supplier Quality Engineer is responsible for leading supplier quality activities to ensure purchased materials, services, components, and assemblies consistently meet the company’s quality, technical, delivery, and performance expectations. This role serves as a senior technical resource for supplier qualification, supplier development, nonconformance resolution, corrective action effectiveness, and risk mitigation. The Senior SQE partners closely with suppliers, Procurement, Engineering, Manufacturing, Project Quality, and internal Quality teams to strengthen supplier capability, prevent recurrence of defects, and drive measurable improvement in supplier performance and cost of poor quality.

Location: Houston, TX

Department: DEPENG

The Opportunity

The Senior Supplier Quality Engineer is responsible for leading supplier quality activities to ensure purchased materials, services, components, and assemblies consistently meet the company’s quality, technical, delivery, and performance expectations. This role serves as a senior technical resource for supplier qualification, supplier development, nonconformance resolution, corrective action effectiveness, and risk mitigation. The Senior SQE partners closely with suppliers, Procurement, Engineering, Manufacturing, Project Quality, and internal Quality teams to strengthen supplier capability, prevent recurrence of defects, and drive measurable improvement in supplier performance and cost of poor quality.

What you will do?

• Lead on-site and remote supplier assessments, audits, and qualification activities for new and existing suppliers. Evaluate supplier quality system maturity, manufacturing capability, process controls, capacity, and compliance with company, customer, and industry requirements; provide approval and risk recommendations to Supplier Quality leadership and Procurement.
• Lead supplier onboarding and advanced quality planning activities by ensuring specifications, drawings, inspection requirements, control plans, special process requirements, and quality performance expectations are clearly communicated and understood.
• Monitor, analyze, and report supplier performance data, including nonconformances, defect trends, delivery-impacting quality issues, repeat failures, audit findings, corrective action status, and cost of poor quality. Facilitate supplier performance reviews, scorecard discussions, risk reviews, and improvement planning.
• Lead containment, disposition, root cause analysis, corrective action, and effectiveness verification for supplier-related nonconformances identified during receiving inspection, manufacturing, assembly, integration, commissioning, or field operations. Ensure timely closure and prevention of recurrence.
• Identify, communicate, and escalate critical supplier risks, including repeated quality escapes, inadequate corrective actions, process instability, poor responsiveness, lack of improvement, or deterioration in supplier performance.
• Serve as a primary technical interface between suppliers and internal Engineering, Manufacturing, Procurement, Project Quality, and Quality teams. Drive clear communication of requirements, support design-for-manufacturability and supplier readiness discussions and ensure supplier feedback is incorporated into risk mitigation and continuous improvement activities.
• Review and approve first article inspection reports, production part approvals, inspection records, test documentation, and supplier quality documentation for new suppliers, new parts, engineering changes, or first-time builds with existing suppliers.
• Ensure critical supplier processes have adequate process documentation, inspection plans, measurement systems, special process controls, traceability, control plans, and process capability evidence. Verify these controls remain effective throughout supplier manufacturing operations.
• Drive continuous improvement in developing supplier qualification, onboarding, supplier development, corrective action, on-boarding and supplier management processes. Mentor supplier quality engineers or cross-functional team members as needed and contribute to standard work, tools, templates, and quality system improvements.
• Support strategic supplier development initiatives, including risk-based supplier segmentation, improvement roadmaps, process audits, supplier scorecard governance, and cross-functional problem-solving to improve supplier capability and reduce quality escapes.
  
  

• Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical, Industrial, Electrical, Manufacturing, Quality Engineering, or a related technical field.
• 7+ years of experience in supplier quality, manufacturing quality