HUB Supplier Development Engineer

Hitachi Energy; Vadodara; On-site; INR 1,200,000 - 1,800,000; Full time

Job summary

Hitachi Energy in Halol, India seeks a skilled APMEA HUB Supply Quality & Development Engineer to lead supplier quality and development activities for three factories. You will drive quality assurance, audits, PPAP, and supplier improvement initiatives to ensure on-time delivery of materials and parts.

Ensure sustainability in the supply chain and collaborate with Category teams to address process and quality challenges.

Qualifications

• Degree in Engineering, Supply Chain Management or a related field.
• Minimum of 7 years of experience in quality assurance and supplier development.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with data-driven decisions.
• Ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously with strong organization.
• Excellent verbal and written communication with suppliers and cross-functional teams.
• Willingness to travel regionally to conduct supplier assessments and audits.

Responsibilities

• Lead supplier quality and development activities for three factories under your responsibility.
• Conduct supplier qualification in SAP Ariba and provide qualification recommendations.
• Drive supplier audits, PPAP coordination and on-site reporting.
• Lead supplier performance monitoring and improvement initiatives.
• Collaborate with suppliers to address process and quality control challenges.
• Support sustainability and compliance within the supply chain.

Skills

Supplier Quality

Quality Assurance

Data Analysis

Project Management

Cross-functional

Education

Engineering degree in a related field

Tools

SAP Ariba

S/4 Hana

Job description

You as a APMEA HUB Supply Quality & Development Engineer will be part of Hitachi Energy business based in Halol, India. You will lead supply quality and development activities for 3 factories under your responsibility. You will ensure the highest quality standards and on-time delivery of suppliers, materials and parts using quality assurance methodologies and necessary supplier improvement initiatives. Drive sustainability in the supply chain. Conducting quality audits, surveillance, and inspections at supplier manufacturing locations. Performing supply quality issue resolution for escalated suppliers. Leading supplier performance improvement actions for targeted suppliers.

Supplier Qualification

• Support supplier qualification process in SAP Ariba through supplier qualification assessment
• Provide qualification recommendation to Category teams from Supplier Quality perspective
• Consolidate HUB level supplier on-site audit needs and reflect into annual BU supplier audit plan
• Conduct the required supplier on-site audits including the reporting
• Follow-up the effective closure of corrective action plan items with the suppliers

Supplier Development

• Lead supplier development initiatives for the potential new/existing suppliers in the category
• Initiate the supplier development projects to improve build-in quality and the capability of the suppliers
• Provide suppliers with trainings on quality management tools, category relevant best practices and standards
• Collaborate with the suppliers to address specific process and quality control challenges

Supplier Parts Quality Approval

• Lead the Production Part Approval Process (PPAP) including the coordination of activities with the Factory Quality and Technology/Engineering for new supplier/parts
• Work with the suppliers having process improvement opportunities to complete the PPAP process successfully.
• Support suppliers with corrective action identification, guidance with best practice sharing
• Ensure all completed PPAPs are registered in S4/Hana

Supplier Performance Monitoring and Evaluations

• Consolidate supplier performance indicators to identify the low performing suppliers within the category.
• Review and align with Category managers and factories on the Top Concern Suppliers for the category and identify their improvement areas.

Supplier Performance Improvement

• Lead supplier performance improvement projects with identified top concern suppliers to recover the supplier’s performance
• Collaborate with the suppliers to confirm the detailed root-cause analysis and effective counter-measure implementation.
• Communicate with the respective category management team in case of required commercial actions and escalations.
• Lead the resolution process for the escalated non-conformities from factories with the respective supplier (including 8D closure and on-site process assessments)

Process Leadership and continuous improvement

• Take the process ownership of the supplier management processes at HUB level
• Monitor implementation of the supplier development and quality assurance processes in the HUB
• Drive continuous improvement of related procedures, and LECI definitions at the HUB level.
• Identify improvement needs with the supply base management tools and communicate with related functions to drive digital transformation

SCM Sustainability Compliance

• Support the SCM Sustainability processes as needed in line with the defined tasks for SDEs within material compliance, supplier sustainability and material sustainability area.
• Support handling and resolution of the escalated/non-collaborative suppliers together with Category managers

Your background

• Degree in Engineering, Supply Chain Management or a related field.
• Minimum of 7 years of experience in quality assurance and supplier development.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to make data-driven decisions.
• Ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously, with strong organizational and time management skills.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, capable of interacting with suppliers and cross-functional teams effectively.
• Willingness to travel regionally to conduct supplier assessments and audits.

Publication date : 2026-08-17