PG&E's Supplier Quality Assurance (SQA) department needs to ensure that purchased material and substation equipment meet all engineering requirements and that suppliers' manufacturing processes are capable of producing safe, reliable, and affordable products. This involves addressing manufacturing quality issues, driving continuous improvement, qualifying suppliers to ISO9001 standards, and conducting detailed technical reviews of their processes.
Requirements
- Knowledge to use various gages to verify conformity
- Ability to make reasoned decisions regarding part and system compliance when drawings are not clear
- Knowledge of variety of non-destructive testing and basic electrical and mechanical inspection techniques.
- Knowledge of a mature Supplier Quality and Procurement systems and processes and the ability to work closely with Engineering and Procurement personnel to achieve supplier qualification and improvements
- Knowledge of a variety of manufacturing processes and good internal business controls and procedures
- Ability to demonstrate application of "root cause analysis" in working with supplier problems.
- Ability to work with software and databases to pull reports including SAP, Access and Excel
Responsibilities
- Using established specifications and inspection processes, perform factory inspections for all types of substation class equipment being procured for installation in PG&E substations.
- Identify deficiencies and verify the correction of deficiencies prior to releasing equipment for shipping.
- Document and report on all activities.
- Participate in the performance of periodic or targeted surveillance inspections at key supplier factories to identify problems or mitigate risk associated with recent quality problems, changes at the factory since the last surveillance inspection, and the verification of critical processes for the covered products.
- Analyzes quality performance data, such as test failure rates, defect trends, and specification deviation trends.
- Provides technical recommendations to Supplier Quality Engineer’s to aid in development of source inspection checklist.
- Provides technical recommendations to Standards engineers to improve PG&E specification and reviews new/revised specification prior to release.
Other
- This position requires up to 75% travel time (domestic and international).
- Ability to work both independently and on teams.
- Must possess skills that enable real time manufacturing problems to be identified, documented, solutions negotiated with suppliers along with overseeing implementation of solutions.
- Follow safety practices of PG&E and supplier plant locations
- Communicate readily with others both verbal and written toward issue resolution with a sense of urgency.
