Sr. Staff Supplier Quality Engineer

Bloom Energy • San Jose, CA

6d • Onsite

About The Position

Bloom Energy is seeking a Sr. Staff Supplier Quality Engineer to help establish and deliver quality and reliability standards for fuel cell components. Based at the San Jose, California headquarters, the role works closely with supply chain and engineering in a cross-functional team and reports to the Director of Supplier Quality. The position focuses on improving quality from design through the full product life cycle, assessing supplier capabilities, and delivering product quality and reliability in a dynamic environment with ongoing product and service changes. The role requires hands-on work managing long-term trends and projects, with a focus on data, timely results, and process capability that supports the lowest total cost. Travel is 20%–40%, domestic or international as required.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Chemical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Industrial Engineering, Materials Science, or Physics; a master’s degree or Ph.D. is also accepted.
• 6–8 years of relevant experience.
• Demonstrated Quality Management System auditing experience or accreditation.
• Strong project and process management skills, including planning, developing, organizing, and implementing quality processes.
• Demonstrated ability to hit targets, respond to new requirements, and deliver First Time Right On Time.
• Strong interpersonal skills and ability to establish effective cross-functional working relationships internally and with suppliers.
• Demonstrated leadership skills and ability to drive teams toward goals at senior organizational levels.
• Ability to contribute value on multidisciplinary teams.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite: Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.
• Experience with statistical tools such as JMP, R, and Tableau or similar visualization applications.
• Ability to prepare and effectively present formal reports to internal and external customers.
• Practical working knowledge and application of SPC, including ability to train peers and suppliers.
• Proficiency in applying DOE and ANOVA.
• Flexibility in a rapidly changing, dynamic working environment.
• Demonstrated self-initiative and sound judgment on technical projects and improvement initiatives.
• Bias for action and ability to multitask in a zero-defect environment.
• Highly customer-focused, both externally and internally.
• Ability to travel 20%–40% of the time, domestically or internationally as work requires.
• Ability to establish demonstrated technical credibility with engineering staff, internally and at suppliers.

Nice To Haves

• ASQ-certified CQE.
• Six Sigma Black Belt.

Responsibilities

• Assess potential supplier capabilities, identify improvement opportunities, and deliver improvements on time in relation to Total Quality for selected suppliers.
• Assess manufacturability of new product designs and help engineering and suppliers improve manufacturability.
• Manage product and process development, including supplier change management, to meet or exceed business requirements.
• Drive supplier development and execution, including deployment of manufacturing processes that meet Bloom Energy requirements.
• Review suppliers’ prototype and production part quality document submissions for acceptability.
• Drive conversion from documentation through product design and engineered practices to deliver consistent and predictable parts and products.
• Perform supplier quality assessments at system and product levels, including PPAP, GR&R, and GD&T.
• Support Manufacturing, Quality, and Engineering with analysis and disposition of suspect supplier material.
• Drive continuous improvement throughout the supply base using quality and lean manufacturing tools.
• Deploy quality improvement methods, from corrective action to systemic and tactical supplier improvement roadmaps.
• Improve supplier quality processes, including assessments, supplier management, part approval, and corrective actions across connected global and sub-tier supplier relationships.
• Participate in supplier selection and evaluation.
• Work cross-functionally to establish quality requirements for external suppliers.
• Update legal contractual language to protect Bloom Energy’s quality interests in relation to lowest Cost of Quality.
• Lead high-visibility root-cause investigations using 8D problem solving and bring identified or potential opportunities to timely conclusions.
• May drive DFMEA and PFMEA, using their outputs to assess and improve targeted product designs and processes.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior