Baker Hughes

Senior Supplier Quality Engineer

CN-SUZHOU-81 SUHONG ZHONG ROAD Full time

Do you enjoy building relationships and managing multiple priorities?

Are you passionate about Supplier Quality Engineering?

Join our innovative Supplier Quality Engineering Team

As a Senior Supplier Quality Engineer, you will take ownership for quality and continuous improvement across a range of suppliers. You will build relationships with internal teams and suppliers to ensure successful delivery. You will ensure supplier quality to global standards and lead continuous improvement where there are performance issues.

Partner with the best

To drive quality for assigned suppliers, including quality plan implementation. Select suppliers through qualification processes. Own supplier results, drive improvements utilizing supplier scorecards. Own supplier audits, ensuring compliance, and driving improvement plans where needed. Positions requiring thorough understanding, application and mastery of approaches, theories, methodologies and application in a concrete organizational context.

As a Senior Supplier Quality Engineer, you will be responsible for:

  • Including both Supplier Quality Assurance and Supplier Quality Development.

  • Including supplier qualifications, action plans, audits, performance monitoring, and assisting key suppliers towards industrial standards of excellence.

  • Handling communication with direct colleagues and the business about approach and methods for solving complex problems

  • Developing positive relationships and work closely with Sourcing Leaders and other internal/external stakeholders to manage and implement supplier/engineering changes, New Product Introductions, and transfers

  • Understanding and drive Lean, Six Sigma culture with suppliers / processes.

To be successful in this role you will:

  • Engineering Bachelor's degree from an accredited university or college (or a high school diploma / GED with at least 8 years of experience in quality / manufacturing / vendor development functions.).

  • Hands on experience in Investment & Sand-casting processes.(Machining Processes would be considered as a plus)

  • Experience in NDT techniques  including RT, UT and LPI and knowledge about such testing machines (certifications achieved would be considered a plus) 

  • Ability to manage multiple qualifications and work with global teams to approve/qualify suppliers and improve their performance.

  • Ability in reviewing documents and parts according to ASTM, PED, IEC, ANSI, CE, CSA, UL other international standards & Regulatory Requirements.

  • Proven problem solving capabilities (Six Sigma and Shainin certifications would be considered as a plus).

  • Exposure to ISO 9001/14001 and OSHAS Standards will be added advantage

  • Highest Level of Integrity.

  • Willingness to travel for more than 60% of the time.

  • Strong oral and written communication skills. (English proficiency).

Work in a way that works for you

We recognize that everyone is different and that the way in which people want to work and deliver at their best is different for everyone too. In this role, we can offer the following flexible working patterns:

  • Working flexible hours - flexing the times when you work in the day to help you fit everything in and work when you are the most productive

Working with us

Our people are at the heart of what we do at Baker Hughes. We know we are better when all of our people are developed, engaged and able to bring their whole authentic selves to work. We invest in the health and well-being of our workforce, train and reward talent and develop leaders at all levels to bring out the best in each other.

Working for you

Our inventions have revolutionized energy for over a century. But to keep going forward tomorrow, we know we have to push the boundaries today. We prioritize rewarding those who embrace change with a package that reflects how much we value their input. Join us, and you can expect:

  • Contemporary work-life balance policies and wellbeing activities

  • Comprehensive private medical care options

  • Safety net of life insurance and disability programs

  • Tailored financial programs

  • Additional elected or voluntary benefits

The Baker Hughes internal title for this role is: Sourcing Senior Specialist - Supplier Quality Engineering