Supplier Quality Representative

Overview

Tek Wissen is a global workforce management provider headquartered in Ann Arbor, Michigan that offers strategic talent solutions to our clients world-wide. Our client is a trusted engineering, construction and project management partner to industry and government. Differentiated by the quality of their people and their relentless drive to deliver the most successful outcomes, they align their capabilities to their customers' objectives to create a lasting positive impact.

Since 1898, they helped customers complete more than 25,000 projects in 160 countries on all seven continents that have created jobs, grown economies, improved the resiliency of the world's infrastructure, increased access to energy, resources, and vital services, and made the world a safer, cleaner place.

Supplier Quality Representative

New Iberia, LA

12 Months

Temporary Assignment

Onsite

This position entails visits to supplier and vendor shops to perform the activities defined by the quality surveillance assignment. The Supplier Quality Representative verifies, through monitoring, observation, document review, witnessing of examinations and tests, and selective hands‑on inspection, that supplier‑furnished material and equipment includes the defined attributes of recognized codes and standards and Client procurement document requirements. Rejects material found nonconforming to procurement document requirements.

Collaborates with the supplier and project supplier quality personnel to identify a course of action to achieve satisfactory disposition of disclosed nonconformances, releases conforming material for shipment, and reports surveillance results to Client project personnel and the customer.

The Supplier Quality Representative represents Client as the supplier's primary contact and performs quality surveillance activities defined by the assignment scope to verify that supplier-furnished material and equipment conforms to the technical and quality requirements of the procurement documents. Acting in this capacity, the Supplier Quality Representative performs the following:

• Reviews the procurement document requirements with supplier representatives to ensure they are understood and implemented, including client‑specific and code‑driven requirements.
• Participates in kickoff and pre‑fabrication meetings; confirms witness and hold points, inspection and test planning, documentation deliverables, and traceability expectations before production begins.
• Verifies that qualified procedures, qualified personnel, calibrated equipment, current approved drawings and revisions, and released material are in place prior to the start of work.

• Performs the surveillance activities defined by the assignment and Client's quality surveillance plan, which establishes what Client verifies and at what level; the supplier's inspection and test plan governs the supplier's own regime, and the two meet at witness and hold points.
• Monitors supplier personnel activities, including the witnessing of operations, inspections, examinations, or tests, to verify purchase order document requirements have been met - first operation and nondestructive examination, welding, fit‑up and dimensional verification, blasting and coating, pressure and functional testing, final inspection, factory acceptance testing, and pre‑shipment verification.
• Reviews supplier‑generated quality verification documentation to verify conformance to procurement document requirements, including material test reports, traceability and heat records, nondestructive examination reports, personnel and procedure…