Supplier Quality Engineer

Veolia Group is a global leader in environmental services, operating across all five continents with nearly 218,000 employees. Specializing in water, energy, and waste management, Veolia Group designs and implements innovative solutions for decarbonization, depollution, and resource regeneration, supporting communities and industries in their ecological transformation. Within this framework, Veolia's Water Technology Business brings together a dedicated team of experienced professionals committed to tackling the world’s most complex challenges related to water scarcity, quality, productivity, and energy. Together, we pursue a shared mission to create a more sustainable future.

Job Summary about the area and the role:
Veolia Water Technologies & Solutions (WTS) is a worldwide leader in water recovery, treatment and reuse. We design and supply a range of water systems, from food and beverage applications, to municipal water, to microelectronics ultrapure water and heavy industrial wastewater treatment.

At WTS, we realize diverse teams make smarter decisions, deliver better results, and build stronger communities. We’re an organization that champions diversity and inclusion at every rung of the ladder
and are proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. We offer challenging and meaningful careers, with competitive benefits and flexible work arrangements.
Please, specify more of an overview of the role. North America

Key Characteristics
● Ability to be self-directed and motivated is critical to success in this role
● Experience with delivering and managing technical projects in the Oil and Gas or other similar high specification industries
● Ability to manage multiple stakeholders, issues/projects, and priorities at once while driving swift resolution of issues

Duties & Responsibilities
● Manage the quality of externally supplied materials in support of customer projects and products. This includes the disposition of supplier non-conformances and issuance/management of Supplier Corrective Action Reports (SCAR)
● Collaborate with internal engineering and external suppliers to determine feasibility of designs for manufacturability at external vendors

● Perform root cause analysis, involving engineering and other key departments, for supplier non-conformance issues
● Audit current suppliers to evaluate risk by monitoring changes in management, key personnel, and process changes
● Support the development of new and existing suppliers by improving their quality ● management systems to improve overall part and documentation quality

Hard Skills
● Proven experience in reading and deciphering engineering drawings and other related industrial specifications
● Practical experience with special processes (welding, casting, molding, etc.) ● Ability to work with suppliers to manage relationships, supplier performance, and product conformance
● Ability to drive technical discussions with internal and external teams and suppliers in each of the manufacturing/installation sites as defined per project

Soft Skills
● Expert: Demonstrate subject matter expertise in the field.
● Strategic: Gets the big game. Understands long term. Respects short term but doesn’t get hung up in the noise.
● Inspirational: Ability to inspire/ motivate others.
● Curious: Ability to pose high impact questions, seeing opportunities in areas where others see problems.
● Courageous: Champions ideas and helps transform them into actions.
● Humble: Respectful towards peers, team members, leadership, and stakeholders.
● Holistic: Think customer and Company first.
● Accountable: Demonstrates responsibility ownership and commitment. Taking responsibility for making tough calls when necessary.
● Ambitious: Identifies underlying truths and comes up with ideas that change the way we conceptualize issues, depicts vision of future that rallies teams to compete in new ways.

Education & Experience
Required:
● Bachelor’s degree in mechanical or chemical engineering or other technical engineering degree and 10 years of supplier quality or inspection related work experience ● Work experience with steel fabrication, pressure vessels, plastic injection molding, oil and gas or
water treatment systems, and/or electromechanical assembly processes ∙ Work experience with
QRQC, Lean Six Sigma, DOE, Deming Cycle, FMEA, 8D, APQP, Control Plan, PPAP, MSA, etc. Remittance)
∙ Technical inspection experience or certification in welding, NDT, and other disciplines ∙
Working knowledge of NSF, AWS B31.1 and B31.3 welding codes and equivalents ∙
Business and Technical English Language Knowledge
∙ Professional Engineering license in Ontario or other Canadian Province
∙ Qualified ISO9001 auditor or equivalent

● Up to 20% domestic and international travel as required
● Visits to supplier and customer sites that may be located outdoors or in other exposed environments
● Office/Remote opportunities available

As an inclusive company, Veolia is committed to diversity and gives equal consideration to all applications, without discrimination.