Supplier Quality Manager - Energy and Infrastructure

Location: Minneota

SUMMARY  Mortenson is currently seeking a  Supplier Quality Manager – Energy and Infrastructure  that will implement, execute, and continuously improve Mortenson's Supplier Quality Management System (SQMS). This role will partner with Supply Chain, Engineering, Operations, Estimating, Quality, Project Teams, and suppliers to apply consistent, risk-based quality controls from supplier selection through manufacturing, testing, shipment, and nonconformance resolution.
The ideal candidate has experience auditing manufacturing facilities and implementing quality systems. Deep expertise in every electrical equipment category is not required, but the ability and willingness to learn products, manufacturing processes, technical requirements, and quality risks is essential.
SQMS Implementation and Deployment
Implement and continuously improve the SQMS across assigned E&I Operating Groups, projects, suppliers, and equipment categories.
Drive adoption of standardized procedures, risk assessments, templates, work instructions, records, and supplier quality requirements.
Integrate supplier quality controls into supplier selection, procurement documents, project planning, manufacturing oversight, equipment release, and closeout.
Develop and deliver practical training;
Develop and execute risk-based audit plans and schedules for new, critical, and underperforming suppliers.
Conduct qualification, quality-system, manufacturing-process, surveillance, and corrective-action verification audits.
Evaluate supplier capability, capacity, QMS maturity, process controls, inspection/testing, traceability, calibration, nonconformance control, change management, and corrective action systems.
Document findings, communicate risk, assign actions, and verify timely and effective closure;
Quality Planning, ITPs, and Manufacturing Oversight
Develop Supplier Quality Plans and risk-based Inspection and Test Plans (ITPs).
Establish Review, Witness, Hold, and Surveillance points with clear notification requirements, acceptance criteria, responsibilities, required evidence, and release conditions.
Review supplier quality plans, procedures, test plans, inspection methods, critical characteristics, special processes, and sub-tier controls.
Plan and perform source inspections, first-article inspections, manufacturing surveillance, pre-shipment inspections, and documentation reviews.
Ensure supplier quality requirements are flowed down through purchase orders, specifications, quality agreements, and sub-tier suppliers.
Factory Acceptance Testing and Release
Develop and maintain FAT templates, checklists, readiness criteria, and equipment-specific test requirements.
Lead or support FAT readiness reviews, witness testing, review results, and track failed tests, deviations, and punch-list items through closure.
Supplier Performance and Cross-Functional Leadership
Lead or support supplier containment, SCARs, root cause analysis, corrective actions, effectiveness verification, and escalation.
Monitor audit results, nonconformances, corrective-action aging, recurring issues, and supplier performance trends.
Communicate quality risks, business impacts, ownership, release status, and mitigation actions clearly to internal and external stakeholders.
Facilitate supplier quality workshops, kickoff meetings, audit closeouts, FAT planning sessions, and corrective-action reviews.
Build constructive supplier relationships while maintaining clear accountability for contractual and quality requirements.
Bachelor’s degree in engineering, Construction Management, Operations Management, Manufacturing Technology, Quality, or a related field; 5 or more years of experience in supplier quality, manufacturing quality,…