Supply Chain Quality Manager
York, PA

Supply Chain Quality Manager

Voith Hydro Inc. | Reports to: Head of Supply Chain Quality

Reasons you'll love working here:
• Flexibility with work/life balance.
• Dress for Your Day dress code.
• Great compensation and benefits package.
• Climate-neutral footprint worldwide.
• Leadership and professional development opportunities.
• Contribute to sustainable hydroelectric energy projects that support clean, reliable power generation worldwide.
• Work in a One Voith environment focused on a consistent, proactive, end-to-end quality approach with early risk visibility and standardized methods.
• Partner with global engineering, manufacturing, sourcing, logistics, project, construction, commissioning, HSE, and quality teams.
• Lead supplier and manufacturing quality improvements that directly affect product conformity, manufacturing readiness, environmental responsibility, shipment quality, and customer satisfaction.
• Develop professionally through supplier audits, ISO management-system activities, Lean continuous improvement, FMEA-based risk prevention, and digital quality/reporting initiatives.

Summary:
• Deploy, lead, and continuously improve supplier quality and supply-chain quality systems, processes, tools, and performance across Voith Hydro.
• Ensure qualified, capable, and compliant suppliers are used to support hydroelectric projects, manufacturing operations, testing, logistics, customer requirements, and project execution.
• Provide functional leadership for supplier qualification and release, supplier audits, supplier performance management, corrective and preventive actions, supplier development, lessons learned, and management-system improvements.
• Serve as a key interface between the project, customer, suppliers, Manufacturing, Sourcing, Logistics, Project Quality, Construction & Commissioning, HSE, and Quality teams.
• Help ensure project quality requirements are deployed across suppliers and manufacturing activities and that quality issues are prevented before shipment and construction/commissioning.

Responsibilities:

Supplier Qualification, Audit, and Performance Management
• Qualify, release, conditionally approve, suspend, or block suppliers based on audits, performance evaluations, certifications, defined criteria, product-specific quality capability, and quality risk.
• Plan, lead, and document supplier audits and supplier surveillance activities in accordance with ISO 19011 practices and Voith Hydro supplier-quality requirements.
• Monitor supplier certifications, quality management systems, manufacturing controls, traceability practices, inspection records, product conformity evidence, and compliance documentation.
• Manage supplier performance using defined KPIs, scorecards, audit findings, nonconformance data, corrective actions, preventive actions, and improvement plans.
• Initiate and drive supplier corrective actions, root-cause analysis, A3/8D problem solving, CAPA, containment, and verification of effectiveness.

Project, Inspection, and Release Readiness
• Coordinate source inspections, customer inspections, witness and hold points, FATs/FAIs, supplier surveillance audits, and quality documentation reviews for products and services supplied to Voith Hydro projects.
• Act as a primary quality interface among the project, customer, suppliers, Manufacturing, Sourcing, Logistics, Project Quality, and Quality teams for supplier/manufacturing-related quality topics.
• Support project quality requirement deployment across suppliers and manufacturing activities, including review of ITPs, MGS, QS, GS, EXI, FMEAs, technical risk management inputs, inspection requirements, acceptance criteria, and supplier-specific quality controls.
• Support sourcing strategy and procurement readiness by assessing supplier quality risks, verifying supplier qualification needs, and ensuring critical suppliers are approved and qualified prior to procurement start where required.
• Monitor execution of project ITPs, critical inspections, test activities, FAT records, supplier audit/visit findings, and action plans to ensure compliance with project quality requirements.
• Ensure readiness for Quality Release and shipment by confirming required release documentation, certificates, traceability records, inspection/test records, and supplier-related NCR closure are complete and available.

Manufacturing, Environmental, and Management-System Support
• Support manufacturing facility quality controls by ensuring supplier material certifications, NDT documentation, dimensional inspection results, welding records, coating documentation, test reports, and lot/heat traceability meet requirements.
• Evaluate supplier environmental controls and compliance expectations related to hazardous materials, chemical management, waste handling, spill prevention, pollution control, emergency preparedness, and lifecycle influence where applicable.
• Support ISO 9001, ISO 14001, ISO 45001, BMS, customer, internal, external, and supplier audit activities, including corrective-action tracking, management-review inputs, and evidence of effective controls.
• Capture, apply, and transfer lessons learned across supplier, manufacturing, logistics, project, and quality activities; ensure applicable management-system changes and supplier controls are implemented.
• Support cost optimization, OPEX, Lean, QHSE KPIs, reporting, dashboards, digital quality tools, data management, and process-standardization initiatives across the supply chain.
• Travel to supplier, manufacturing, project, and customer locations as required, up to approximately 50%.

Requirements:

Education and Experience
• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Manufacturing Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Materials Engineering, Quality Engineering, Supply Chain Management, or a related technical field; MBA or postgraduate business degree preferred.
• Minimum of 7 years of relevant experience in Supplier Quality, Supply Chain Quality, Manufacturing Quality, Quality Engineering, or Quality Management within an industrial, manufacturing, power generation, renewable energy, or hydroelectric environment.
• Demonstrated experience qualifying, auditing, releasing, blocking, monitoring, and developing suppliers based on product quality, process capability, compliance, and performance criteria.

Quality Systems, Supplier Processes, and Technical Knowledge
• Working knowledge of ISO 9001; experience with ISO 14001, ISO 45001, ISO 19011, BMS governance, customer audits, and supplier audit documentation is preferred.
• Auditor qualification in accordance with ISO 19011 preferred; Lead Auditor certification is an advantage.
• Knowledge of manufacturing and supplier processes such as machining, welding, fabrication, assembly, coatings, dimensional inspection, electrical testing, NDT, material certification, and traceability requirements.
• Ability to interpret drawings, specifications, project quality requirements, ITPs, MGS, QS, GS, EXI, FMEAs, inspection plans, quality plans, contract requirements, supplier documentation, corrective-action responses, and technical quality records.
• Strong understanding of root-cause analysis, CAPA, 8D, A3, PFMEA, Lean methods, technical risk management, lessons learned, supplier development, and continuous improvement.

Leadership, Tools, Communication, and Travel
• Experience coordinating supplier/manufacturing quality activities with Project Quality, Sourcing, Manufacturing, Logistics, Engineering, HSE, and customer-facing project teams.
• Ability to support customer inspections, witness points, FATs/FAIs, supplier audits, manufacturing visits, quality-release readiness, shipment readiness, and closure of critical NCRs before release where required.
• Practical knowledge of IT tools including SAP, SharePoint, Microsoft Office, database tracking systems, supplier quality systems, digital quality tools, and reporting/dashboard tools; Power BI experience preferred.
• Strong leadership, coaching, communication, presentation, analytical, decision-making, stakeholder-management, and cross-functional collaboration skills.
• Fluent English communication skills, written and spoken; additional languages are an advantage.
• Ability and willingness to travel frequently to supplier, manufacturing, project, and customer locations, up to approximately 50%.

Don't meet every single requirement but think you would be a good fit for our team? We encourage you to apply - your unique skills may be just what we need for this or other roles!