Supplier Performance Engineer

Westinghouse Electric Company LLC; Warszawa; Hybrid; PLN 82,000 - 102,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid model of work

Attractive remuneration with bonuses

Life insurance

Private Medical Care

Private Group Insurance

Employee Assistance Program

Job summary

Westinghouse Electric Company LLC in Poland seeks a Supplier Performance Engineer to oversee supplier relationships and drive high-quality metal work components for the AP1000 program in Europe, with a focus on Poland.

You will lead supplier evaluation and development, manage risks, drive process improvements, and ensure compliance with ASME/NQA-1 and other standards while supporting cross-functional teams and traveling up to 100% to supplier workshops in Kielce or Siedlce as needed.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or higher in Mechanical/Material Engineering.
• Fluent in Polish and English.
• 1+ years of experience on similar role.
• Experience leading multiple projects.
• Experience with nuclear products and standards (ASME).
• Experience with NDE/NDT processes.

Responsibilities

• Supplier Evaluation and Development involves conducting overall supplier assessments.
• Lead supplier development and qualification activities for new products and cost reduction efforts.
• Supplier Oversight evaluating procurement risk and developing Oversight Plans.
• Define Witness and Hold points during the manufacturing.
• Complete or delegate oversight of main supplier operations and activities.
• Support the project management team to work with Supplier Quality Organization for Quality surveillance.
• Supplier Management ensuring flow down of Quality and Technical requirements to suppliers.
• Develop and monitor Supplier performance scorecards and improvement plans.
• Lead and coordinate quality events and implement corrective actions.
• Coordinate supplier documentation reviews and reports to Westinghouse functions.
• Provide regular progress reports to project stakeholders.

Skills

Supplier management

Project leadership

Quality systems

NDE/NDT knowledge

ASME standards

Travel readiness

Education

Bachelor's degree in Mechanical/Materials Engineering

Tools

PFMEA

Process capability analysis

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 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 escape “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

1+ 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. The expectation is up to 100% of your time on business trip to allow to be on the workshops in Kielce or Siedlce.

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 7,333 to 9,133 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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