Senior Supplier Quality Engineer

Westinghouse Electric Company is a leader in the nuclear energy industry, committed to providing clean energy solutions. The Senior Supplier Quality Engineer will manage quality assurance tasks for externally sourced products, ensuring compliance with Westinghouse's quality and technical requirements.

Responsibilities:

• Develop and implement supplier surveillance and oversight plans to ensure compliance with quality and technical standards
• Resolve supplier quality issues which adversely impact product quality
• Perform independent verification activities (i.e., assessments and oversight) to verify Westinghouse QSL suppliers have established, implemented, and sustained an effective quality management system to assure the “nuclear safety related” or “augmented safety” items, material, and/or services being provided to Westinghouse, meet the quality assurance, regulatory, and customer requirements specified within purchasing documents
• Monitor progress to achieve established quality goals within budgetary and schedule constraints
• Create certification documents, which identify the procurement requirements met by the purchased material or equipment, such as codes, standards, and other specifications imposed by Westinghouse Customers, for major equipment and components
• Lead assessments of the global supply base to ensure compliance with applicable regulations, codes and standards
• Evaluate supplier quality plans, procedures, and processes to verify compliance to quality and technical requirements defined by Westinghouse Engineering
• Apply advanced quality control techniques and statistical methods for collection of deficiency information to identify failure causes and trends, rate performance and measure the effectiveness of supplier QA programs, and internal processes
• Write detailed segments of QA plans/programs according to current U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC), Westinghouse and customer QA standards for nuclear and non-nuclear facilities

Requirements:

• 4 or more years of experience is required
• A bachelor's degree in an engineering discipline, technical area or equivalent is required
• Capability to concisely explain QA procedures to internal personnel and external customers, subcontractors, suppliers and licensees relative to Westinghouse quality related products and services
• You develop solutions, plan work and set priorities while using a questioning attitude to identify risks
• Exceed customers' expectations in ways that are in consideration of our goals
• An NQA-1 Certified Lead Auditor certification is desirable