Supplier Quality Engineer (1-year Contract role)

*This is a 1 year contract role. It requires you to work on-site at our Tonawanda, NY location. You will be payrolled through a staffing agency and will not be a direct employee of Linde, Inc.

Responsibilities:

• Assist with functions and activities of Supplier Quality Management Steering Team (SQM-ST).
• Assist with managing the work process for the SQM Steering Team and assist plants/regions in execution of their SQM work processes.
• Help improve SQM Tool based on feedback from RBUs and SQM-ST
• Assist with content development and training of RBU personnel on SQM Tool and process as needed.
• Help establish contact and working relationship with key stakeholders within supplier organizations.
• Help setup and facilitate reviews with key supplier leadership teams as needed.
• Develop and implement supplier scorecard evaluation process with SQM-ST.
• Participate in NCR reviews for all segments.
• Assist in providing feedback on key suppliers to LE Procurement and GFA owners.
• Assist in resolving significant failures of assets/equipment from key suppliers in a diligent and methodical manner and contribute to incident Root Cause Analysis (RCA) process.
• Assist in LG Critical Vendor List update process.

Requirements:

• Degree in Engineering or Business Administration or comparable
• 3+ years of business experience in a supplier facing Engineering or Procurement role
• Proficiency in using IT applications (e.g. SAP, MS Excel, MS PowerPoint, Tableau, MS SharePoint, MS Flow, MS Power Query/PowerPivot)
• Experience in supply chain risk analysis or due diligence is a benefit
• Strong communication skills, team player spirit, self-driven and highly motivated; have a sense of cultural differences
• Fluent in English, foreign languages are a benefit