Equinix

Senior Manager, Major Capital Equipment Procurement

Equinix

full-time

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Location Type: Hybrid

Location: Dallas • Texas • United States

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Salary

💰 $136,000 - $204,000 per year

Job Level

Senior

About the role

  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including design, construction, and commissioning to communicate quality risks, resolve stakeholder issues, and ensure on-time delivery of high-quality MCE products.
  • Provide updates on supplier performance, manage team growth, set goals, and resolve resource/budget issues.
  • Align and drive quality improvement activities to improve predictability, responsiveness, and delivered quality.
  • Perform 8D failure analysis to execute corrective actions with demonstrated preventative solutions.
  • Enable execution of capital purchases to achieve cost savings, improve vendor performance, and ensure supply agreements compliance.
  • Collaborate with internal stakeholders including Commissioning team and Suppliers to drive Root Cause Analysis and implement lessons learnt.
  • Conduct frequent inspections of supplier production facilities and align production line metrics and audits to field performance.
  • Drive cost reduction initiatives, maintain forecasts, and track and improve cost of poor quality.
  • Work directly with suppliers managing Delivered quality of complex Power and Mechanical infrastructure systems to solve product quality and process issues.
  • Build supplier relationships, mitigate risks, resolve issues, and support new supplier selection.
  • Ensure KPIs, manage people and financial resources, and apply project management methodologies.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s in technical/engineering or equivalent experience
  • 10+ years Experience in one or more of the following: quality engineering, manufacturing quality engineering, supplier quality engineering, supplier management or Category Management
  • Strong negotiation and influencing skills
  • Flexibility and adaptability
  • Ability to travel up to 50% if necessary.
  • Preferred: Master’s or MBA
  • Experience with large-scale industrial engineering/construction programs (e.g., data centers)
Benefits
  • Employee Assistance Program
  • Insurance: You may enroll in health, life, disability and voluntary plans that are designed for you and your eligible family members.
  • Retirement: You and Equinix may contribute to a retirement plan to help you plan for your financial future.
  • Paid Time Off (PTO) and Paid Holidays: You will receive an accrued amount of PTO each pay period along with various paid holidays for you to rest and recharge.
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Hard Skills & Tools
8D failure analysisquality engineeringmanufacturing quality engineeringsupplier quality engineeringsupplier managementCategory Managementproject management methodologiescost reduction initiativescapital purchases executionRoot Cause Analysis
Soft Skills
negotiation skillsinfluencing skillsflexibilityadaptabilityteam managementstakeholder communicationproblem-solvingrelationship buildinggoal settingresource management
Certifications
Bachelor’s in technical/engineeringMaster’sMBA