Supplier Quality Representative; SQR) WTP; Western Region); ESS

• Travel:
  Approximately 75-80%, primarily to supplier facilities. The candidate needs to be comfortable with frequent travel and changing assignment locations.
• Primary coverage:
  Western Region, with most assignments expected across the West Coast and Western states.
• East Coast support:
  Must also be willing and able to travel to East Coast supplier locations when coverage requires it.
• Experience:
  
  Prefer candidates with at least 4-5 years of Quality Assurance/Quality Control (QA/QC), supplier quality, or shop-surveillance experience. Nuclear or other highly regulated industry experience is strongly preferred.
• Technical capability:
  Candidate should be comfortable reviewing drawings, specifications, purchase order requirements, inspection and test requirements, supplier documentation, and identifying or documenting nonconformances.
• Field/shop environment:
  This is not an office-based position. The candidate should be comfortable working independently at supplier facilities, performing surveillance and inspection activities, and producing clear, timely reports.
• WTP readiness:
  Candidate must be willing and able to complete required Waste Treatment Plant (WTP) and company Supplier Quality & Expediting (BSQE) qualification, training, and On-the-Job Training (OJT) requirements.
• Flexibility:
  Availability for occasional schedule changes, extended supplier coverage, and approved overtime is important.

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 company 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 the company project personnel and the customer.

The Supplier Quality Representative represents the company 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 the company quality surveillance plan, which establishes what the company 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,…