Senior Supplier Performance Engineer

Westinghouse Electric Company LLC; Warszawa; Hybrid; PLN 127,000 - 159,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work model

Life insurance

Private Medical Care

Private Group Insurance

Employee Assistance Program

Bonuses

Job summary

Westinghouse Electric Company LLC in Warsaw, Poland, seeks a Senior Supplier Performance Engineer to oversee supplier relations and ensure high-quality metal components for the AP1000 program in Europe, with a Poland focus. The role involves supplier evaluation, development, risk management, and cross-functional coordination with Quality and Project teams.

Requirements include a Mechanical/Material Engineering degree, 5+ years in similar roles, fluency in Polish and English, and willingness to

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree or higher in Mechanical/Material Engineering.
• Fluent in Polish and English.
• Working knowledge of Manufacturing and Quality Plans, PFMEAs.
• +5 years of experience in similar role.
• Experience leading multiple projects.
• Experience with nuclear products and standards (ASME).
• Experience with NDE/NDT processes.
• Willing to travel to the supplier Workshop based in Europe.
• Experience in large projects execution.
• Experience with US standards and norms (ASME, AWS).

Responsibilities

• Supplier Evaluation and Development involves conducting supplier assessments and ensuring facilities have required resources.
• Lead supplier development and qualification activities for new products and cost reduction with SME approach.
• Supplier Oversight: assess procurement risk and develop Oversight Plans and estimates.
• Define Witness and Hold points during manufacturing.
• Complete or delegate oversight of main supplier operations and document results.
• Support PM and Quality org for Quality surveillance.
• Supply Quality: ensure flow-down of Quality/Technical requirements (NQA-1, ISO, Design Specs).
• Guide supplier performance with scorecards/dashboards and ensure value for POs.
• Develop Performance Improvement Plans and manage SCAR processes.
• Coordinate supplier documentation reviews and provide progress reports.

Skills

Polish language proficiency

English language proficiency

Nuclear industry knowledge (ASME)

Leadership of multiple projects

Process capability / QA awareness

Education

Bachelor's or higher in Mechanical/Material Engineering

Job description

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Are you interested in being part of an innovative team that supports Westinghouse's mission to provide clean energy solutions? At Westinghouse, we recognize that our employees are our most valuable asset and we seek to identify, attract and recruit the most qualified talent while recognizing and encouraging the value of diversity in the global workplace.

Senior Supplier Performance Engineer manages and oversees relationships with suppliers to ensure the delivery of high-quality metal work components and contribute to solutions to the complex aspects of a project or process. You will work with suppliers to establish and maintain relationships, monitor performance, ensure delivery certainty and identify areas for improvement. You will be part of AP1000 program in Europe with a specific focus on Poland.

Responsibilities:

Supplier Evaluation and Development involves conducting overall supplier assessments. These assessments evaluate suppliers' capabilities for complex technical products and processes. Additionally, they ensure that a supplier's manufacturing facility has all the necessary resources, including machines, spare parts, material, components, and supplies, to operate. These goods must comply with Westinghouse's quality and standards requirements.

Lead supplier development and qualification activities for new products and cost reduction efforts with a subject matter expert approach. This includes identification of project risks and mitigating actions, managing project schedules, approval of supplier process documents, process capability analyses, measurement system analyses, input to design for manufacturability

Supplier Oversight Evaluating procurement risk, soliciting partner input, and using resources to develop and manage Oversight Plans and estimates

Define Witness and Hold points during the manufacturing

Complete or delegate oversight of main supplier operations and activities, documenting results and taking appropriate action

Support the project management team to work with Supplier Quality Organization for performing Quality surveillance

Supplier Management Managing flow down of Quality and Technical requirements to suppliers, e.g., NQA-1, ISO, Design Specifications, Approved Processes

Guide the supplier performance, including supplier performance scorecard/dashboard. Ensure maximum value is received for the Purchase Order that WEC places to its suppliers, including full compliance to the quality and technical specifications.

Responsibility to develop Performance Improvement Plans for poor or negative trends in performance and managing those plans to completion. This includes overseeing the Supplier Corrective Action Request (SCAR) process: performing cause analyses and verifying completion of preventative and corrective actions

Lead and esc… “quality events”, coordinating activities, issuing communications, identifying partners to ensure prompt identification of impacted products, disposition, and corrective action. This requires engaging your technical experience and capabilities for providing Manufacturing technical expertise to the supplier when needed

Coordinate supplier documentation reviews by appropriate Westinghouse functions, including the Supplier Non-Conformance Reports

Provide regular progress report to the department (Project Manager, Program Director)

Support Commercial Operations and Legal for Quality/technical bases of supplier claims

Qualifications:

Bachelor's Degree or higher in Mechanical/Material Engineering

Fluent in Polish and English

Working knowledge of Manufacturing and Quality Plans, PFMEAs

+5 years of experience on similar role

Experience leading multiple projects

Experience with nuclear products and standards (ASME)

Experience with NDE/NDT processes

Personal, industrial and nuclear safety as an important area of concern

Knowledge about Design-To-Manufacturing and Manufacturing Readiness Level process

Experience performing process capability analysis and qualification

Willing to travel to the supplier Workshop based in Europe

Experience in large projects execution

Experience with US standards and norms (ASME, AWS)

We are committed to transparency and equity in all of our people practices. The base salary range for this position, which is dependent upon experience, qualifications and skills, is estimated to be 11,416 to 14,266 PLN gross per month. In addition to the base pay, this role may be eligible for incentive pay based on company and individual performance.

Why Westinghouse?

Westinghouse Electric Company is the global nuclear energy industry's first choice for safe, clean, and efficient energysolutions. We enable our delivery of this vision by living our value system:

• Safety and Quality
• Integrity and Trust
• Customer Focus and Innovation
• Speed and Passion to Win
• Teamwork and Accountability

Westinghouse offers great benefits to all our employees around the globe to keep them healthy and enhance their well-being.

Benefits offered in Poland include:

• Outstanding and supportive atmosphere of collaboration in the team and in Westinghouse group
• Attractive remuneration with bonuses
• Hybrid model of work, flexible working time
• Life insurance
• Private Medical Care
• Private Group Insurance
• Employee Assistance Program: confidential counseling and resources for employees, eligible dependents, and household members

Westinghouse is an Equal Opportunity Employer including Veterans and Individuals with Disabilities.

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