About the role
Senior Supplier Quality Engineer responsible for ensuring high standards of quality for AWS data-center infrastructure equipment from supplier selection through field deployment. The role involves technical investigations, supplier assessments, failure analysis, KPI development, and continuous improvement initiatives across global regions with 30-50% travel.
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Key Responsibilities
- Develop, implement and maintain the supplier quality roadmap across engineering and procurement teams
- Conduct technical investigations of equipment failures to understand root causes and prevent recurrence
- Provide technical expertise on quality evaluation methods, testing approaches, and failure analysis techniques
- Drive supplier and product qualification and assessment processes in support of procurement teams. This includes developing technical approaches for evaluating new equipment and suppliers entering the AWS ecosystem
- Drive continuous improvement initiatives that address both immediate quality issues and long-term performance optimization
- Develop and implement Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) to monitor supplier quality performance and drive accountability
- Work on concurrent projects, sometimes in multiple geographical regions
Requirements
- Master's degree or above in Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or a related field
- Experience in data center engineering or operations
- Experience in manufacturing, process, or industrial engineering
- Experience with process improvement, Kaizan, and Six Sigma, or experience in creating process improvements with automation and analysis
- Experience with data analysis tools such as Excel, Pivot Tables, SQL, Tableau, etc.
- Experience in supply chain, commodity, and supplier management in a high volume, global sourcing and operations manufacturing environment with a global supply base of contract manufacturers