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Job description / Role
Role Summary:
The Lead Supplier Quality Engineer demonstrates leadership in communicating business goals, programs, and processes for an area or business segment.
In this role you will use your experience or expertise to solve problems, develop and execute objectives for self and others and have the ability to effect short-term and some long-term business goals.
Essential Responsibilities:
- Responsible for driving quality for assigned suppliers, improving quality performance via Quality Plan Implementation and rive supplier selection through robust qualification processes.
- Accelerate improvements in supplier quality and deliver value.
- Develop positive relationships and work closely with Sourcing Leaders to manage and implement supplier/engineering changes, New Product Introductions, and transfers.
- Interface with Suppliers and Supply chain to drive Quality improvements.
- Deliver results as measured by key metrics, such as supplier yield, field cost, field defect rate, supplier quality plan engagement/effectiveness, and corrective & preventative action closure.
- Drive improvements utilizing Supplier scorecard and own Supplier audit, ensuring supplier compliance, and driving improvement plans.
- Understand and drive Six Sigma quality internally and with suppliers.
- Provide Quality Engineering expertise requiring advanced/specialized skills and a broad range of quality engineering expertise.
- Specify, develop, and accept advanced technology, quality information and test equipment.
- Provide advanced Quality Engineering of new product introduction involving new processes or advanced automated equipment.
- Provide technical expertise to customers/licensees in solving technical problems associated with test facilities.
- Provide correlation with GE facilities.
- Act as consultant to the Quality, Manufacturing and Engineering organizations to improve Quality and Manufacturing processes, introduce new products and improve product design.
- Specify and develop product acceptance/test procedures that relate to a complex process (state-of-the-art) or highly complex product.
- Provide leadership role during investigations of major problems and of special projects.
- Work with EPCs, and vendors/manufacturers of all sizes. to ensure optimal quality of products and services.
Requirements
Qualifications/Requirements:
- Bachelor's degree from an accredited university or college (or a high school diploma/GED with at least 8+ years of experience in Sourcing).
- At least 3 additional years of experience in a Sourcing or Quality Improvement role.
- EPC experience is essential.
- French language is a must.
- Travel is approximately 70%, covering countries in N. Africa, Egypt and Iraq, etc.
Desired Characteristics:
- Strong oral and written communication skills.
- Strong interpersonal and leadership skills.
- Ability to cope with multiple complex situations daily.
- Negotiation expertise is preferred.
About Us:
GE is the world's Digital Industrial Company, transforming industry with software-defined machines and solutions that are connected, responsive and predictive. Through our people, leadership development, services, technology and scale, GE delivers better outcomes for global customers by speaking the language of industry.
About the Company
GE is a diversified technology, media and financial services company, dedicated to creating products that make life better. From aircraft engines and power generation to financial services, medical imaging, television programming and oil and gas, GE operates in more than 100 countries and employs over 300,000 people worldwide.
GE's Oil & Gas business is a leader in the development and delivery of advanced product and service offerings for the global oil and gas industry. As a consequence of the rapid expansion of its technology base, GE's Oil & Gas is capable of addressing the largest and most complex engineering and application challenges entirely from its own worldwide resources. So whether it's the world's largest LNG compression trains, re-injection of high sulfur gas, enhancing the safety and productivity of the world's oil and gas pipelines, or equipment for the production of oil and gas from harsh environments, GE is leading the charge.