Supplier Performance Engineer

Westinghouse Electric Company; Kraków; On-site; PLN 103,230 - 129,456; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Stable employment

Hybrid work model

Private medical care

Employee assistance program

Job summary

Westinghouse Electric Company is seeking a Supplier Performance Engineer in Kraków, Poland. This role involves managing supplier relationships to ensure high-quality component delivery and contributing to project solutions. The ideal candidate will have a Bachelor's Degree in Mechanical or Material Engineering, along with fluency in Polish and English.

Responsibilities include conducting supplier assessments, overseeing development activities, and managing supplier performance. The position offers a hybrid work model and a base salary ranging from 9,250 to 11,600 PLN per month, depending on experience.

Qualifications

• 3-5 years of experience in a similar role.
• Experience leading multiple projects.
• Knowledge about design-to-manufacturing processes.

Responsibilities

• Manage supplier relationships for high-quality component delivery.
• Conduct supplier assessments and evaluations.
• Oversee supplier development and qualification activities.

Skills

Fluent in Polish

Fluent in English

Manufacturing knowledge

Project management

Experience with nuclear products

Process capability analysis

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Mechanical/Material Engineering

Job description

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.

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 the 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 elevate 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.
• 3-5 years of experience on a 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.
• Will travel to the supplier workshop based in Europe. The expectation is up to 25% of your time on business trip to allow to be on the workshops.
• 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 9,250 to 11,600 PLN gross per month. In addition to the base pay, this role may be eligible for incentive pay based on company and individual performance.

Benefits offered in Poland

• Stable employment.
• Outstanding and supportive atmosphere of collaboration in the team and in Westinghouse group.
• Attractive remuneration with bonuses.
• Hybrid model of work, flexible working time.
• MyBenefit Cafeteria.
• Private medical care.
• Private group insurance.
• Employee assistance program: confidential counseling and resources for employees, eligible dependents, and household members.
• Charity initiatives.
• Parking space for employees.
• Employee referral program.

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