Senior Supplier Manufacturing Engineer

Westinghouse Electric Company is a leader in providing clean energy solutions, and they are seeking a Senior Supplier Manufacturing Engineer. The role involves supporting the fabrication of electro-mechanical components at supplier facilities, ensuring compliance with technical and quality requirements, and coordinating supplier performance activities.

Responsibilities:

• Ensure Westinghouse technical and quality requirements are achieved through supplier oversight that you perform
• Develop and implement Supplier Oversight Plans to lead completion of critical document submittals, manufacturing activities, surveillance (witness and hold) points, inspections, and tests and ensure vendor compliance with critical requirements
• Coordinate activities of Westinghouse functions responsible for driving supplier performance including Supply Chain (buyers and category managers), Design Engineering, and Supplier Quality Oversight
• Identify and escalate supplier issues, risk, and quality events
• Improve prompt resolution of issues by coordinating activities, issuing communications, and identifying partners to ensure prompt identification of impacted products, disposition of issues, and implementation of corrective action
• Monitor important supplier performance metrics, such as On-Time Delivery, Quality issues, and Deviation Notices, for assigned suppliers. This monitoring aims to identify negative performance trends and implement causal analysis, corrective actions, and Supplier Improvement Plans to avoid issues
• Evaluate procurement (supplier) risk, soliciting partner input, and using resources to develop security of supply risk mitigation plans
• Oversee internal and external (supplier) corrective action requests, performing cause analyses and verifying completion of preventative and corrective actions
• Perform technical evaluations of our suppliers to assess their manufacturing capability, capacity, process controls, compliance with applicable regulations, codes, and standards. These evaluations also identify associated risks. Identify gaps between supplier evaluations and Westinghouse technical and quality requirements. Establish and implement plans to reduce those gaps
• Lead supplier development and qualification activities for new products, supplier improvement projects, and cost reduction efforts. This includes performing supplier development activities to establish or improve suppliers' manufacturing processes and quality management systems to meet Westinghouse requirements. · Review and disposition supplier process documents, process capability analyses, measurement system analyses, input to design for manufacturability
• Work with Design Engineering to ensure the integrity and clarity of engineering drawing requirements and that all expectations are communicated to support suppliers
• Support implementation of Value Analysis / Value Engineering, Design for Assembly, and Design for Manufacturing principles during the design process

Requirements:

• Bachelor's Degree or higher in Engineering
• 4+ years of progressive experience in engineering/manufacturing
• manufacturing manager experience
• experience in the Electrical Equipment, Nuclear or adjacent industries
• Knowledge in manufacturing processes, e.g. machining (turning, milling), welding, forming, mechanical assembly, NDE and inspection, and testing
• Experience performing process capability analysis (Cpk) and qualification
• Working knowledge of Manufacturing and Quality Plans, PFMEAs
• Experience authoring technical documents or operating procedures
• Experience reading drawings and specifications made to ASME standards
• Experience with nuclear products and standards desired