Sr. Supplier Quality Engineer, Infrastructure Reliability & Quality; IRQ

Position: Sr. Supplier Quality Engineer, Infrastructure Reliability & Quality (IRQ)
Our Amazon Web Services Infrastructure Reliability & Quality (IRQ) engineering team provides engineering support for our data center infrastructure mechanical and electrical equipment (Air Handling Unit, Switchgear, Breaker, Panel Board, UPS, Transformers, Generators, ATS etc.) as well as infrastructure security equipment (Cameras, Access Control, etc.) throughout their lifecycle. A critical piece of this support is ensuring the highest level of initial quality and ongoing support from our suppliers.

As a Supplier Quality Engineer you will interface with AWS Engineering teams, Procurement teams, Commissioning teams and suppliers to manage infrastructure equipment quality. Our Supplier Quality Engineer is responsible for supplier qualifications, quality monitoring at supplier sites, supplier quality issue resolution and supplier development and quality improvement initiatives.

If you want to be a part of a team that has a daily impact on company success, this is a great opportunity for  this role you will lead internal and external engagements with engineering, procurement, supply chain management, operations, finance, construction, and suppliers to deliver robust and resilient quality systems at our vendors and within AWS. You will identify supplier quality defects or waste in AWS processes, and drive new processes to eliminate the defects and prevent them from recurring without posing risk to availability.

You will be responsible for developing the suppliers to bring them up to the AWS quality standardswho build custom infrastructure electrical, electro-mechanical and security equipment for AWS. Sr. Supplier Quality Engineers will work closely with AWS product development and engineering teams and with infrastructure equipment vendors to monitor and improve the incoming quality of AWS equipment.

Keys to success in this role include sound judgment and excellent written/verbal communication skills.

Travel required, both international and domestic, approximately 30-50%
Key job responsibilities

In this role you will:

-Develop, implement and maintain the supplier quality roadmap across engineering and procurement teams.

-Verify AWS quality standards are met at suppliers through in-person and remote audits.

-Define and roll out incoming inspection/first article inspection plans-Drive supplier and product qualification and assessment processes in support of procurement teams. This includes effective resolution of any issues identified.

-Monitor and report on supplier performance quality metrics and actions. Lead supplier quality issue resolution in partnership with engineering, construction and commissioning teams.

-Develop and support suppliers with quality improvement initiatives and Key Performance Indicators (KPI). Provide a feedback mechanism from suppliers to internal teams on joint quality issues. Work on concurrent projects, sometimes in multiple geographical regions.

About the teamAWS Infrastructure Reliability & Quality (IRQ) engineering team provides engineering support for our data center infrastructure equipment (Air Handling Unit, Switchgear, Breaker, Panel Board, UPS, Transformers, Generators, ATS, Cameras, Access Control etc.) throughout their lifecycle. Supplier Quality Engineering (SQE) team is part of the IRQ team and works on implementing proactive controls to reduce the incoming supplier quality issues.

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