Lead Supplier Performance Engineer

Westinghouse Electric Company is a leader in the global nuclear energy industry, committed to providing clean energy solutions. The Lead Supplier Performance Engineer will oversee global supplier performance, risk management, and delivery assurance, ensuring alignment with contractual and customer requirements while leading technical support and supplier development activities.

Responsibilities:

• Model strong Nuclear Safety Culture behaviors and conduct effective safety briefings. Use Human Performance (HuP) tools in these interactions
• Provide day‑to‑day technical support to fuel delivery and project teams, ensuring supplier performance aligns with contract, schedule, and customer requirements
• Lead supplier qualification, development, and oversight activities, including technical assessments of manufacturing capability, capacity, process controls, and supply chain risk. Execute onsite and remote oversight to validate performance and drive improvement
• Identify, assess, and mitigate supplier risks affecting quality, schedule, and security of supply. Support make/buy decisions and mitigation strategies using manufacturing and process expertise
• Provide technical leadership for quality events, corrective actions, and root cause analyses. Support escalation, resolution, and verification of effective preventive actions for significant issues
• Serve as a technical authority for complex supplier and quality issues; support customer, executive, and cross‑functional discussions with clear, accurate, and confident technical communications
• Verify and peer‑review qualification and oversight plans and reports for technical rigor, consistency, and effectiveness. Identify opportunities to improve processes, tools, and oversight methods using lessons learned and operating experience
• Provide technical guidance, mentoring, and on‑the‑job training support for SPE team members. Share best practices and lessons learned and maintain regular touchpoints to support execution and technical development
• Produce high‑quality qualification and oversight reports, maintain supplier scorecards, and manage supplier quality records (NCRs/SCARs) in SAP

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in engineering required
• 10+ years of relevant engineering, manufacturing, quality, or operations experience
• Experience mentoring and technically lead teams of engineers in the execution of complex, cross‑functional work
• Demonstrated depth in nuclear products, manufacturing processes and capabilities, quality programs, and operational excellence, applied to strengthen customer and supplier relationships
• Experience in engineering, manufacturing, quality programs, or operational excellence
• Recognized subject matter expert in one or more manufacturing or Operational Excellence disciplines
• Working knowledge of Manufacturing and Quality Plans
• Master's degree or demonstrated equivalent technical expertise preferred
• Project management experience preferred
• Nuclear industry experience and familiarity with NQA‑1 standards strongly desired