Supplier Quality Manager - Houston, TX

VetJobs • Houston, TX

5d • Onsite

About The Position

The Supplier Quality Manager provides coordination, support, and leadership for Supplier Quality across Energy Global Business Unit projects. The role coordinates strategy, governance, and risk-based surveillance to ensure project teams, plans, and suppliers can deliver 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 cross-project quality risks, and drives improvement efforts to protect project delivery, operational readiness, and customer confidence.

The position reviews Supplier Quality priorities and execution standards, directs risk-based quality plans and surveillance, and provides functional and technical direction to Supplier Quality Supervisors and Representatives. It partners with Procurement and Engineering on supplier assessments, ensures procurement and inspection documents define appropriate quality requirements, leads responses to significant nonconformances, coordinates Supplier Quality services across functions, and tracks metrics and lessons learned. The role also represents the function in leadership, customer, and supplier reviews.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree or international equivalent and 10–13 years of relevant experience, or 14–17 years of relevant work experience.
• 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, including the 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.

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.

What This Job Offers

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