Supplier Quality Representative

Great new opportunity for multiple Supplier Quality Representatives with our Energy Renewables company in the Greenville, SC area!

Extensive travel to supplier and vendor facilities required

SQR to be available for weekday, weekend, and overnight work (with applicable notice).

Dimensional, run testing, balance testing, hydro testing, functional testing, shipping, release, and related manufacturing activities.

Request a resource with experience in large-scale gas turbine manufacturing.

Preference for personnel with prior supplier knowledge or previous employment at the facility.

Must be able to pass background requirements and effectively communicate and work through supplier-specific behaviors and expectations. NDA and additional supplier paperwork may be required and maintained for the duration of coverage

The Supplier Quality Representative (SQR) supports Supply Chain – Supplier Quality and Expediting (SQE) by performing quality surveillance activities at supplier and vendor facilities. The SQR verifies that supplier-furnished materials and equipment conform to applicable codes, standards, procurement requirements, and project-specific quality requirements.

Through monitoring, observation, document review, witnessing inspections and examinations, and selective hands‑on inspection, the SQR evaluates supplier performance and product quality throughout the manufacturing process.

The SQR serves as the Company's primary quality representative at assigned supplier facilities. Responsibilities include identifying and documenting nonconformances, working with suppliers and project quality personnel to achieve appropriate disposition, verifying corrective actions, releasing conforming materials for shipment, and providing timely surveillance and quality status reports to Company project personnel and customers.

• Review procurement and purchase order requirements with supplier representatives to ensure requirements are understood, communicated, and properly implemented, including client-specific and code-driven requirements.
• Participate in supplier kickoff, pre-fabrication, and pre-inspection meetings.
• Confirm applicable witness and hold points, inspection and test plans, documentation requirements, material traceability, and quality expectations before fabrication begins.
• Verify that approved procedures, qualified personnel, calibrated inspection and test equipment, current drawings and revisions, and released materials are available before work begins.

• Perform surveillance activities in accordance with the assigned scope and Company quality surveillance plan.
• Monitor supplier activities and witness applicable operations, inspections, examinations, and testing to verify compliance with procurement requirements.
• First-operation inspections
• Welding and weld examinations
• Fit-up and dimensional inspection
• Blasting and surface preparation
• Coating application and inspection
• Pressure and functional testing
• Final inspection
• Factory acceptance testing
• Pre-shipment inspection and verification
• Review supplier-generated quality records and objective evidence, including material test reports, heat and material traceability records, NDE reports, personnel and procedure qualifications, calibration records, coating documentation, inspection records, and final data books.
• Verify that sub-suppliers and subcontracted processes are properly identified, qualified, and controlled, and that applicable sub-tier findings and records are incorporated into supplier documentation.
• Review supplier documents submitted to the Company, with or without comments, while maintaining the Company's independent quality oversight. The SQR does not sign, initial, stamp, or otherwise endorse supplier inspection and test plans or other supplier-controlled documents.

• Identify and reject material or work that does not conform to applicable procurement or quality requirements.
• Document nonconformances objectively, citing the governing requirement and providing supporting photographic evidence when appropriate.
• Work collaboratively with supplier and project supplier quality personnel to establish an appropriate path toward satisfactory disposition of identified nonconformances.
• Refer design-related or engineering-driven issues to the Responsible Engineer for…