Lead Supplier Quality Engineer
GE Vernova
full-time
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Location Type: Remote
Location: Turkey
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About the role
- The Lead Supplier Quality Engineer is responsible for driving supplier quality performance for assigned suppliers.
- Ensures compliance with technical, quality, and delivery requirements through supplier qualification, audits, corrective actions, and continuous improvement.
- Acts as a key quality interface between suppliers and internal stakeholders.
- Ensures quality compliance and performance of suppliers involved in transformer tank metal fabrication, with strong emphasis on welding and painting (coating) processes.
- Accountable for transformer tank metal fabrication activities at suppliers across Turkey and Europe, with direct coordination and reporting to the UK Stafford Transformer Factory.
- Leading supplier quality activities across the end-to-end transformer tank fabrication process, including raw material control, cutting, forming, fit-up, welding, NDT, dimensional inspection, surface preparation, painting, testing, and final release.
- Ensuring effective control of welding processes, including review and application of approved WPS/WPQR, welder qualifications, heat input control, and distortion management.
- Coordinating and verifying NDT activities (VT, MT/PT, UT, RT as applicable) and ensuring timely closure of weld-related non-conformities.
- Leading supplier painting and coating quality activities, including blasting cleanliness, surface profile, environmental controls, paint application, stripe coating, curing, and DFT verification.
- Monitoring and resolving paint-related non-conformities, such as pores, holidays, blistering, corrosion, edge damage, and transportation-related coating damage.
- Reviewing and approving supplier quality documentation, including inspection and test plans, coating procedures, and manufacturing quality plans.
- Conducting supplier audits and driving corrective and preventive actions based on NCRs, root cause analysis, and performance trends.
- Monitoring supplier performance using quality KPIs and scorecards and leading continuous improvement initiatives.
- Acting as the primary quality interface between suppliers, engineering, sourcing, manufacturing, and project teams.
- Utilizes technical expertise and judgement to solve problems.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering, Materials Engineering, Metallurgical Engineering, Manufacturing Engineering, or a related technical engineering field
- Minimum of 5 years of relevant professional experience in Supplier Quality Engineering, Manufacturing Quality, or transformer fabrication, with demonstrated expertise in welding, coating, and heavy steel fabrication processes
- Willingness and ability to travel extensively approximately 50% of the time
- Strong verbal and written English language skills
- Comfortable in remote working conditions
- Having IWE certification is required
- Ability to live in Istanbul & Kocaeli
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Hard Skills & Tools
supplier quality engineeringweldingcoatingNDTdimensional inspectionpaint applicationroot cause analysisquality KPIscontinuous improvementtransformer fabrication
Soft Skills
communicationproblem-solvingleadershipinterpersonal skillsorganizational skills
Certifications
IWE certification