Lead Supplier Quality Engineer

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Job Summary
Quality Engineer plays a critical role in ensuring product and process quality across the organization. This position acts as a key liaison between customers, suppliers and internal teams, supporting the resolution of quality concerns, facilitating new product introduction (NPI) and managing product changes. The role requires close collaboration with the Bearward Engineering team in India and regular communication with the UK-based Quality Manager.

Key Responsibilities:

• Serves as the primary point of contact for customer and supplier quality issues.
• Manage customer concerns, product changes, and new product introductions.
• Develop and implement quality standards and ensure compliance across operations.
• Conduct internal process audits and collaborate with teams to resolve issues.
• Drive initiatives to reduce internal costs related to poor quality.
• Monitor and reduce customer complaints through long-term corrective actions.
• Ensure compliance with regulatory and ISO 9001 requirements.
• Report key quality metrics to internal stakeholders.
• Build and maintain strong customer relationships.
• Oversee supplier quality management and inspection operations.
• Coordinate site visits with internal and subcontract service engineers.

Qualifications and Skills:

• Bachelor's degree in engineering or a relevant field.
• 8–10 years of experience in a quality engineering role, preferably in a manufacturing or engineering environment.
• Experience in supplier qualification audits, especially in high horsepower diesel engine markets.
• Familiarity with cooling systems and heat exchangers for the power generation sector.
• Strong understanding of ISO 9001 Quality Management Systems.
• Proficiency in quality tools and software (e.g., MRP systems, CAPA, FMEA, 8D, RCA).
• Experience with Lean or Six Sigma methodologies (certification desirable).
• Capable of managing supplier and customer quality, including Level 3 PPAP and warranty coordination.
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills.
• Ability to work independently and collaboratively across global teams.
• Willingness to travel within India as required.

Who are we?
Wabtec Corporation is a leading global provider of equipment, systems, digital solutions, and value-added services for freight and transit rail as well as the mining, marine, and industrial markets. Drawing on nearly four centuries of collective experience across Wabtec, GE Transportation, and Faiveley Transport, the company has grown to become One Wabtec, with unmatched digital expertise, technological innovation, and world-class manufacturing and services, enabling the digital-rail-and-transit ecosystems.

Wabtec is focused on performance that drives progress and unlocks our customers' potential by delivering innovative and lasting transportation solutions that move and improve the world. We are lifelong learners obsessed with making things better to drive exceptional results. Wabtec has approximately 27K employees in facilities throughout the world. Visit our website to learn more

Our Commitment to Embrace Diversity:
Wabtec is a global company that invests not just in our products, but also our people by embracing diversity and inclusion. We care about our relationships with our employees and take pride in celebrating the variety of experiences, expertise, and backgrounds that bring us together. At Wabtec, we aspire to create a place where we all belong and where diversity is welcomed and appreciated.

To fulfill that commitment, we rely on a culture of leadership, diversity, and inclusion. We aim to employ the world's brightest minds to help us create a limitless source of ideas and opportunities. We have created a space where everyone is given the opportunity to contribute based on their individual experiences and perspectives and recognize that these differences and diverse perspectives make us better.

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