Senior Engineer – Supplier Quality

Bloom Energy, a solid oxide fuel cell company, is looking for a Senior Quality Engineer to join its world class team in Bangalore. This individual should be a dynamic professional who is looking for a rewarding future in one of today’s most exciting technologies.

Role and Responsibilities:

• Part of supplier identification, assessment and development for customized products
• Evaluate the initial samples and/or engineering change requests looking for product specification compliance, assuring the planning timelines correspond to the start of production
• Includes supplier qualifications, action plans, audits, performance monitoring, and assisting key suppliers towards industrial standards of excellence
• Influence the development of new projects and technical concepts to achieve the continuous improvement of our product
• Recommend technical product improvements evaluating risks and potential chances to avoid quality manufacturing issues, by comparing similar parts assembly line and field development
• Apply methods like DOE (Design of Experiment), 6 Sigma, other quality tools for to analyze the root causes and derive corrective actions of complaints or issues.

• Solve manufacturing and customer complaints via monitoring and analysis of the quality problems, ensuring that the contingency and definitive measures are implemented assuring process stability and preventing these issues in the future
• Conducting process audits periodically at supplier location and work on addressing the open issues and strive for improvement
• Provide monthly Supplier Performance Reviews on Suppliers with monitoring of corrective action plans

• Building up effective and solid communication channels with suppliers as well as BE cross-functional team to ensure quality, on-time execution and delivery of projects
• Responsible for developing comprehensive quality assurance plan and quality control for the commodities procured for various projects. Commodities include Sheet Metal fabrication, cable assemblies, magnetics & machined parts.

Skills and Experience:

• Knowledge on fabrication of sheet metal parts, cable assemblies & magnetics.
• Proficient in quality analysis tools such as 8D, SPC, PFMEA, Control Plan, DFM, 7QC Tools, PPAP etc.
• Shall have knowledge on standards like UL, IEC, ASTM, IPC, ISO9001, etc.
• Demonstrated ability to investigate quality problems and to apply sound technical judgment to develop possible solutions
• Strong Technical Writing skills and proficiency in Technical Review of documents
• Knowledge of basic concepts of design, metrology, instrumentation and quality tools.
• Ability to measure and report suppliers’ capability and quality performance
• Ability to define problems, collect data, establish facts and draw valid conclusions
• Self-Motivated, ability to initiate and follow tasks through to completion
• Exposure to handling International suppliers or customers
• Willing to travel for Supplier visits on need basis
• Strong data analysis and reporting skills
• Candidates shall have strong interpersonal skills to effectively communicate and interact with customers, contract manufacturers and suppliers on a technical level and with corporate office counterparts.

Desired Certification/Qualifications:

• BE/BTech with 5+years of experience in the field of supplier quality
• Lead auditor certified

Location:

• Bangalore