Supplier Quality Engineer

Do you enjoy driving supplier quality excellence and influencing manufacturing performance across a global supply base? Are you passionate about ensuring product quality, compliance, and continuous improvement from supplier qualification through production? Partnering with the best Baker Hughes is a global energy technology company operating in over 120 countries. Our Supply Chain and Quality teams play a critical role in delivering high-quality products that exceed customer expectations while ensuring regulatory compliance and operational excellence. Through strong supplier partnerships, robust quality management systems, and continuous improvement initiatives, we drive superior quality performance across our global operations. Fueling your passion As a Supplier Quality Engineer, you are leading supplier quality initiatives to ensure exceptional product quality, supplier compliance, and manufacturing excellence. You are partnering with sourcing, engineering, manufacturing, and supplier teams to drive supplier qualification, quality improvements, and new product introductions. You are utilizing advanced quality methodologies to enhance supplier performance, minimize defects, and optimize cost of quality. You are serving as a technical leader in supplier quality, helping ensure products are delivered on time, every time, and in full compliance with customer, industry, and regulatory requirements As a Supplier Quality Engineer, you are responsible for: Acting as the focal point for supplier quality execution supporting critical and highly engineered products in the United States.  Driving quality performance for assigned suppliers through continuous improvement initiatives.  Leading supplier approval and qualification processes through robust onboarding programs.  Developing and promoting a strong Quality Management System (QMS) culture across supplier facilities.  Partnering with Sourcing Leaders to manage supplier changes, engineering changes, product transfers, and New Product Introductions (NPI).  Collaborating with suppliers and supply chain teams to drive quality improvements and operational excellence.  Delivering results through key supplier quality metrics including yield, defect rates, corrective actions, and supplier performance.  Utilizing supplier scorecards, audits, and improvement plans to drive supplier compliance and performance.  Driving Lean and Six Sigma principles across supplier operations and quality processes.  Providing advanced quality engineering expertise for new products, manufacturing technologies, and automated processes.  Specifying, developing, and validating advanced quality systems, testing methods, and inspection equipment.  Supporting investigations of major quality issues, root cause analysis, and corrective actions.  Acting as a quality consultant to Manufacturing, Engineering, and Quality teams for product and process improvements.  Developing product acceptance criteria, testing procedures, and quality standards for complex products and manufacturing processes.  Providing leadership on special quality projects and supplier development initiatives.  To be successful in this role you will:   Have a bachelor’s degree in mechanical, Manufacturing, Production, Industrial, Automotive Engineering, or a related technical discipline.  Have 10+ years of experience in Quality, Manufacturing, Supplier Development, Supplier Quality, or Vendor Quality functions.  Have hands-on experience with one or more manufacturing processes such as investment casting, sand casting, forging, machining, fabrication, welding, heat treatment, dimensional inspection, coating, or NDT inspection methods.  Have experience managing supplier qualifications and working with cross-functional and/or global teams to drive supplier improvement initiatives.  Have the ability to review technical documents and components against standards such as ASTM, ASME, PED, IEC, ANSI, CE, CSA, UL, or