Supplier Quality Representative

Position Overview

Our team is currently looking for a Supplier Quality Representative for one of our clients in the New Energies Industry.

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

• 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 company’s quality surveillance plan, which establishes what 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, 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 qualifications, calibration records, coating records, and data books.
• Verifies that sub-suppliers and subcontracted operations are disclosed, qualified, and controlled, and that sub-tier findings and records are included in supplier reporting.
• Reviews supplier documents submitted to company with or without comments; does not sign, initial, stamp, or otherwise endorse supplier inspection and test plans or other supplier documents.

• Rejects material found nonconforming and documents the condition objectively with reference to the governing requirement and supporting photographic evidence.
• Collaborates with the supplier and project supplier quality personnel to identify a course of action to achieve satisfactory disposition of disclosed nonconformances; refers design-driven items to the Responsible Engineer for technical disposition.
• Verifies corrective action in the shop using supplier evidence together with the representative’s own observation; ensures open actions carry an owner, due date, closure evidence, and follow-up verification, and reports repeat findings and adverse trends.

• Releases conforming material for shipment and notifies other company functional organizations to assist in coordination of their activities.
• Reports the results of quality surveillance activities to provide project personnel and the customer with the status of surveillance activities, using timely and accurate surveillance reports as the auditable record of attendance, observations, and actions.
• Provides early notification of quality or fabrication progress risk to the Area Supervisor and project supplier quality personnel, and coordinates with area expediting…