Supplier Quality Manager

Bechtel; Houston (TX); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Bechtel in Houston seeks a Supplier Quality Manager to coordinate quality across Energy GBU projects. The role drives governance, risk-based surveillance, and supplier performance to ensure purchased equipment and services meet contractual and quality requirements.

The successful candidate will lead cross-functional teams, engage with procurement and engineering, and advance quality improvement initiatives across major LNG, gas processing, petrochemical, or power projects with international

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or international equivalent is required.
• 10–13 years of relevant experience or 14–17 years in equivalent roles.
• Experience in EPC environments and major equipment packages preferred.

Responsibilities

• Review supplier quality priorities to align with project objectives.
• Direct risk-based quality plans, budgets, and staffing.
• Coordinate pre-award assessments of supplier capability and quality systems.
• Define acceptance criteria in quality plans and test plans.
• Lead containment and corrective actions for significant nonconformances.
• Coordinate quality services with Engineering, Construction, and Logistics.
• Develop and report supplier quality metrics and trends.
• Represent the function in leadership and customer reviews.

Skills

Quality leadership

Risk-based surveillance

Supplier quality

Audits

Interpretation of specs

Executive communication

Education

Bachelor's degree or international equivalent

Job description

Requisition ID: 300917

• Relocation Authorized: National/International - Family
• Telework Type: Part-Time Telework
• Work Location: Houston, TX

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Job Summary:

The Supplier Quality Manager provides coordination, support, and leadership for Supplier Quality across Energy Global Business Unit (GBU) projects. The role coordinates strategy, governance, and risk-based surveillance with the goal of ensuring project teams, plans, and suppliers are capable of delivering purchased equipment, materials, related services, and documentation that meet or exceed contractual, technical, and quality requirements. Acting as a catalyst for project leadership, Engineering, Procurement, Expediting, Construction, and suppliers, the manager leverages functional resources, assists in resolving significant and, especially, cross-project quality risks, and drives improvement efforts to protect project delivery, operational readiness, and customer confidence.

Major Responsibilities:

• Review Supplier Quality priorities and execution standards to align with corporate requirements, project objectives, and customer commitments.
• Direct risk-based quality plans, budgets, staffing, and surveillance coverage; coordinate procedures and provide functional and technical direction to business unit Supplier Quality Supervisors, and Supplier Quality Representatives.
• Partner with Procurement and Engineering on pre-award assessments of supplier capability, quality systems, manufacturing capacity, and technical compliance.
• Ensure requisitions, purchase orders, quality plans, and inspection and test plans define acceptance criteria, hold and witness points, documentation, preservation, and release requirements.
• Lead containment, causal analysis, corrective and preventive action, and effectiveness verification for significant nonconformances and recurring defects
• Coordinate Supplier Quality services with Engineering, Construction, Quality, Expediting, and Logistics; assess service effectiveness and provide technical expertise as needed.
• Develop and maintain Supplier Quality metrics; report portfolio trends, surveillance gaps, and corrective action status.
• Deploy lessons learned across projects, strengthen specifications and surveillance practices, and represent the function in leadership, customer, and supplier reviews with clear decision-making interfaces.

Education and Experience Requirements:

Requires bachelor's degree (or international equivalent) and 10-13 years of relevant experience or 14-17 years of relevant work experience

Required Knowledge and Skills:

• Extensive supplier quality, quality assurance, manufacturing inspection, or related engineering and construction experience, including leadership across multiple projects or major equipment packages.
• Demonstrated leadership of geographically dispersed technical teams and functional resources in an engineering, procurement, and construction (EPC) environment.
• Working knowledge of quality management systems, supplier audits, risk-based surveillance, inspection and test plans, nonconformance management, causal analysis, and corrective action verification.
• Ability to interpret engineering specifications, purchase orders, manufacturing records, and applicable energy-sector codes and standards.
• Experience managing quality execution plans, staffing, budgets, performance measures, and reporting, and resolving complex supplier issues across functions.
• Strong executive communication and stakeholder engagement skills; ability to present technical risks, recommendations, and decisions clearly.
• Experience on major LNG, gas processing, petrochemical, or power projects with international suppliers and global execution teams.

Total Rewards/Benefits:

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