Supplier Quality Engineer

A Snapshot of Your Day (position overview)

As a Supplier Quality Engineer (SQE), you will play a key role in ensuring supplier quality and delivery excellence across Energy projects. Collaborating with suppliers, commodity managers, and internal stakeholders in a multicultural environment, you will lead qualification activities, address nonconformances, conduct root cause investigations, and implement corrective, preventive, and risk mitigation measures to support continuous improvement and project success. Operating in a global, multicultural environment, you will build strong relationships across internal departments and external partners, making effective networking and collaboration essential to success.

How You’ll Make an Impact (responsibilities)

• Serve as the primary technical and quality interface for suppliers, collaborating closely with Engineering, Procurement, and Quality teams to drive supplier performance and manufacturability improvements.
• Lead supplier qualification activities, including capability assessments, quality system audits, and evaluation of manufacturing processes.
• Manage product and process qualification (PPQ) activities for large fabricated structures and components, ensuring compliance with applicable standards, requirements, and project milestones.
• Review and approve supplier manufacturing and inspection processes, including Manufacturing Quality Control Plans, FMEAs, inspections, and testing activities.
• Investigate supplier nonconformances, lead root cause analysis, and implement effective corrective, preventive, and risk mitigation actions.
• Drive supplier development and continuous improvement initiatives by monitoring supplier performance, supporting sourcing strategies, and ensuring compliance with quality, safety, and management system requirements.

What You Bring (requirements)

• Bachelor’s degree in Welding, Mechanical, Materials Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent combination of education and experience.
• CWI certification required; oil & gas industry experience preferred.
• 5+ years of experience in Manufacturing Engineering and/or Supplier Quality Engineering, with a focus on large steel fabrications and mechanical assemblies.
• Strong project leadership skills with experience leading cross-functional teams in a global environment; self-motivated with excellent analytical and problem-solving abilities.
• Extensive knowledge of welding, NDT, GD&T, manufacturing processes, inspection and test plans, and ASME/AWS code requirements.
• Proficient in MS Office and SAP ERP; ISO 9001 Lead Auditor, Lean/Six Sigma, and SAP Quality Management experience preferred; able to travel domestically and internationally up to 30-40%.

Applicants must be legally authorized for employment in the United States without need for current or future employer-sponsored work authorization.About the TeamTransformation of Industry

Our Transformation of Industry division is decarbonizing the industrial sector. Increasing electrification and efficiency are key and demand for green H2 and derivative fuels will rise. We enable decarbonization of the industrial sector and the transition to sustainable processes, building on a strong industrial customer base, a global network, diverse technologies, and integrated execution capabilities.

Who is Siemens Energy?

At Siemens Energy, we are more than just an energy technology company. With ~100,000 dedicated employees in more than 90 countries, we develop the energy systems of the future, ensuring that the growing energy demand of the global community is met reliably and sustainably. The technologies created in our research departments and factories drive the energy transition and provide the base for one sixth of the world's electricity generation.

Our global team is committed to making sustainable, reliable, and affordable energy a reality by pushing the boundaries of what is possible. We uphold a 150-year legacy of innovation that encourages our search for people who will support our focus on decarbonization, new technologies, and energy transformation.

Find out how you can make a difference at Siemens Energy: https://www.siemens-energy.com/employeevideo

Rewards

• Career growth and development opportunities; supportive work culture
• Company paid Health and wellness benefits
• Paid Time Off and paid holidays
• 401K savings plan with company match
• Family building benefits
• Parental leave