Associate Procurement Quality Manager

Associate Procurement Quality Manager

It's fun to work in a company where people truly believe in what they're doing! We're committed to bringing passion and customer focus to the business.

Does the thought of joining one of the fastest-growing, privately held data center companies sound exciting to you? Do you enjoy collaborating with team members to drive and operate some of the industry's leading and most innovative infrastructure solutions?

At Aligned Data Centers, not only do we celebrate success across our platform, we celebrate the very teams that drive and support that success! Our culture is founded in passion, engineered from innovation, and driven by the pursuit of operational excellence. We are a company dedicated to driving positive change in the industry through continuous data center innovation, diversity and inclusion, and corporate sustainability.

We realize not only is providing a comprehensive benefits package important, but we also provide a generous 401k match with immediate vesting, free membership to Gympass which provides our employees a rich health and wellness benefit and competitive time off plan. Giving back and having fun is important to our team whether it be serving our communities or employee and customer events.

Our Aligned DNA is what makes us unique and successful!

As part of our exciting growth, we are currently searching for an Associate Procurement Quality Manager.

The Associate Procurement Quality Manager supports the qualification, development, and performance management of supplier partners providing critical equipment and services for Aligned Data Centers. This role works closely with Procurement, Engineering, Construction, Commissioning, Operations, and Supplier Partners to ensure equipment and materials meet Aligned quality, reliability, and delivery requirements.

The position is responsible for supplier quality assurance activities including supplier assessments, APQP implementation, corrective action management, root cause analysis, risk mitigation, and continuous improvement initiatives across the supply chain.

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Adherence to Owner Furnished Equipment (OFE) Partner Quality Manual procedures.
• Evaluate OFE Partner's work from their manufacturing facility to pre-energization and equipment startup activities.
• Lead gap assessments and work with OFE Partners to effectively address and close open actions.
• Support both factory and field level assessments of OFE Partner field service processes and procedures.
• Provide cross functional support to team members focused on factory assessments and design/materials Supplier Corrective Action Review ("SCAR").
• Follow-up on SCARs to OFE Partners for quality issues as per established procedures and conduct follow-up activities to drive robust corrective/preventive actions.
• Liaison with Aligned stakeholders (Operations, Commissioning Teams, and Contractors) when quality issues are identified and facilitate communications with responsible OFE Partners.
• Follow a Plan-Do-Check-Act methodology when addressing Supplier Partner gaps in performance.
• Monitor supplier performance metrics including quality, delivery, responsiveness, and warranty performance.
• Verify implementation and effectiveness of corrective and preventive actions.
• Drive continuous improvement initiatives with supplier partners.
• Facilitate lessons learned and best-practice sharing across suppliers.
• Support Factory witness tests (FWT) with cross functional teams.
• Superb written, verbal, and interpersonal communication skills.
• Exhibit a professional, positive attitude in all circumstances.
• Identify and mitigate supplier-related risks affecting project schedules and operational reliability.
• Work with Procurement, Engineering, Construction, and Operations teams to resolve quality concerns.
• Support development of supplier quality standards and procedures.
• Ability to travel 25% of the time, with an expected cadence of approximately two trips per calendar month.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree preferred.
• 1-3 years' experience in manufacturing quality role with exposure to standard processes and procedures.
• Working knowledge of Quality Management systems…