Supplier Technical Engineer – Supplier Quality & Process Improvement (On-site, San Diego)

⚙️ Supplier Technical Engineer

📍 Location: San Diego, CA (On-site)
💼 Employment Type: Full-Time
🏭 Industry: Energy
📦 Function: Supply Chain / Supplier Quality
🛂 Visa Sponsorship: Not available
🎯 Level: Associate (2–5 years’ experience)

🌟 About the Role

We are seeking a Supplier Technical Engineer to support supplier quality, process reliability, and continuous improvement across a global supply chain. This role plays a critical part in ensuring supplier performance meets high technical and quality standards while partnering closely with internal stakeholders and external suppliers to resolve issues and drive long-term improvements.

If you enjoy working at the intersection of engineering, quality, and supplier collaboration, this is a strong opportunity to build impact early in your career.

🔧 Key Responsibilities

• Support resolution of supplier-related quality issues and process gaps

• Provide conclusions and recommendations for quality improvements

• Partner with suppliers on continuous improvement initiatives

• Implement and monitor supplier process controls, evaluations, audits, and corrective actions

• Support supplier qualification for new products and components

• Identify root causes of quality problems and develop short- and long-term action plans

• Maintain documentation related to inspections, evaluations, and quality records

🧠 Core Competencies You’ll Use Daily

Quality & Continuous Improvement

• Apply quality management tools and techniques

• Use inspections, walkthroughs, and evaluation tools

• Track quality indicators and support improvement efforts

Problem Solving

• Identify and document issues and solution options

• Use data and diagnostics to assess root cause

• Balance risk, cost, and impact when recommending solutions

Collaboration & Communication

• Work cross-functionally with engineering, manufacturing, and supply chain

• Communicate clearly with suppliers and internal teams

• Contribute to collaborative problem-solving sessions

Attention to Detail

• Ensure accuracy in documentation and reporting

• Use checklists and verification methods to avoid errors

• Learn from past issues to improve future outcomes

Time & Priority Management

• Manage multiple tasks and priorities simultaneously

• Respond to operational needs while progressing project work

🎓 Background & Experience

Required

• Bachelor’s degree in Supply Chain, Engineering, or related field

• 2–5 years of experience in supplier quality, manufacturing, or technical supply chain roles

Preferred

• Experience in Supplier Quality Engineering (SQE)

• Familiarity with investment casting and airfoil components (e.g., blades, nozzles)

• Exposure to manufacturing environments or technical suppliers

💰 Compensation & Benefits

• Salary Range: $89,210 – $133,810

• Benefits: Full benefits package

• Bonus: Not eligible

• Relocation: Not available

• Travel: None required

Reliability Engineer II - USA, Carrollton GA - $87,300 - $131,000

Reliability Engineer II

USA, Carrollton GA

$87,300 - $131,000

Job Description

The Reliability Engineer champions the implementation of reliability best practices. This role will also evaluate new best-known methods and technologies to continuously improve equipment reliability.

Major Responsibilities / Key Deliverables  

·        Serves as the facility RCA process champion, and participates in failure analyses to identify corrective actions to eliminate failure modes or reduce the consequence of failure.   

·        Interacts with reliability engineers at other plants to share findings from failure analyses along with solutions to problems identified.  

·        Monitors equipment MTTR and MTBF performance to identify reliability improvement opportunities.

·        Examines defects and issues identified during PM and PdM activity, and utilizes this information for PM optimization.   

·        Participates in new and modified equipment design and installations.   

·        Assists in spare part reviews to ensure adequate stocking levels as determined by consumption due to normal wear and failure frequency.   

·        Identifies risks of obsolescence and proposes mitigation strategies.   

·        Introduces tools and techniques in performing preventive and predictive maintenance activity, and prescribes frequency of activity through CMMS maintenance plans.   

·        Provides training and support of precision maintenance processes such as alignment and balancing.  

·        Develops a world class lubrication program and monitors performance and execution.   

·        Supports autonomous activities and provides skills training to operations team members.   

·        Drives proactivity performance through supervision of planners and participation in scheduling activities with planners and coordinators.   

·        Ensures CMMS users have been trained in system utilization and audit activity to sustain system integrity.   

·        Serves as a SAP PM subject matter expert for the plant.

KNOWLEDGE AND EXPERIENCE: 

·        Individuals must be a degreed engineer with a minimum of 5 years of experience working in a manufacturing environment with a focus on reliability and maintainability.

·        The Reliability Engineer must possess a thorough knowledge of methodologies including Failure Modes and Effects Criticality Analysis (FMECA), Root Cause Analysis (RCA), Reliability Centered Maintenance (RCM), and Total Productive Maintenance (TPM).

·        Must be able to train others on reliability activities while also capable of facilitating analyses that utilize reliability methodologies.

·        The Reliability Engineer must have experience with common condition-based, predictive technologies such as vibration, thermal, ultrasonic, oil, and circuit analyses.

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