Supplier Quality Manager - Houston, TX

VetJobs; Houston (TX); On-site; USD 110,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Bechtel seeks a Supplier Quality Manager to lead supplier quality across Energy Global Business Unit projects in an on-site Houston setting. You will coordinate strategy, governance, and risk-based surveillance to ensure purchased equipment, materials, and services meet contractual and quality requirements.

Responsibilities include leading cross-functional teams, implementing QA plans, and driving continuous improvement with global suppliers and execution partners.

Qualifications

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

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 direction to Supplier Quality staff.
• Partner with Procurement and Engineering on pre-award assessments of supplier capability and quality systems.
• Ensure requisitions, purchase orders, quality plans, and inspection/test plans define acceptance criteria and release requirements.
• Lead containment, corrective action, and verification for significant nonconformances and recurring defects.
• Coordinate Supplier Quality services with Engineering, Construction, Quality, Expediting, and Logistics; assess service effectiveness.
• Develop and maintain Supplier Quality metrics; report trends, surveillance gaps, and corrective action status.
• Deploy lessons learned across projects and represent the function in reviews with clear decision-making interfaces.

Skills

Quality leadership

EPC coordination

Quality systems

Risk-based surveillance

Supplier quality metrics

Stakeholder engagement

Education

Bachelor's degree

Job description

Job Description

Our organization works with partner companies to source qualified talent for their open roles. The following position is available to Veterans, Transitioning Military, National Guard and Reserve Members, Military Spouses, Wounded Warriors, and their Caregivers. Unless specifically stated otherwise, this role is "On-Site" at the location detailed in the job post.

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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.

Auto req ID

487300BR

Minimum Education Required

High School/GED

Additional Qualifications/Responsibilities

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.

City

Houston

State

Texas

Job_Category

Management

Job Code

Operations_ Specialist

Affiliate Sponsor

Bechtel