About the role
AI summarisedSenior Supplier Quality Engineer at AWS Infrastructure Services, responsible for managing supplier quality for complex electrical and mechanical infrastructure equipment used in data centers. The role involves supplier qualifications, quality monitoring, issue resolution, and driving quality improvement initiatives across global suppliers.
BusinessFull-time
Key Responsibilities
- Develop, implement and maintain the Supplier Quality roadmap for complex electrical and or mechanical infrastructure equipment to meet the technical and quality requirements.
- Manage complete equipment lifecycle quality, working closely with suppliers, engineering, procurement and other internal stakeholders.
- Responsible for improving equipment quality by identifying and closing gaps by performing thorough on-site audits to ensure suppliers' quality systems, products, and processes are meeting AWS Quality and product specification requirements.
- Drive Supplier Quality Improvement Programs track supplier performance along with goal settings for key performance indicators.
- Develop critical to quality parameters, perform critical-to-quality inspections and functional testing for complex equipment to ensure suppliers provide defect-free, high quality equipment to AWS and its customers.
- Review historical failures, equipment design changes and lessons learned to incorporate relevant inspections & tests and update equipment technical specifications.
- Lead complex electrical and mechanical infrastructure equipment as well as critical component(s) root cause analysis, working with suppliers, cross-functional teams such as reliability and design engineering teams.
- Responsible for evaluating and validating complex root cause analysis reports from a technical perspective using critical thinking and quality principles.
- Develop new product (equipment) and/or new supplier qualification plans in terms of quality. Drive the quality program from prototyping to mass production stage for complex electrical and mechanical equipment that are part of AWS Data Centers.
- Ability to perform data analysis on failures reported during the equipment life cycle and create technical reports to provide design and specification improvement inputs and to drive improvement(s) at supplier factories.
- Work on concurrent projects, sometimes in multiple geographical regions.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Engineering or a related field
- 8+ years of team management, budget responsibilities, supplier management, problem solving, and client/ customer relations experience
- 8+ years in Electrical, Mechanical Product manufacturing, supplier quality
- Can manage multiple projects and meet deadlines
- Experience with data center operations and infrastructure equipment
- Demonstrate a can-do attitude and thriving in a fast-paced work environment.
- Keys to success in this role include sound judgment and excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- This role requires 30-50% international and domestic travel.