Senior Supplier Performance Engineer
Orsay, FR Marseille, FR Orsay, FR
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Senior Supplier Performance Engineer, APX WBS11 Turbine Island
As a Senior Supplier Performance Engineer for APX WBS11 Turbine Island, you will support the successful procurement, manufacture, delivery, and turnover of Turbine Island major equipment across APX projects. You will lead supplier manufacturing-readiness and capability assessments, provide technical and quality oversight, and drive sustained supplier performance for complex power-generation equipment.
You will manage assigned supplier activities from pre-purchase-order planning through final delivery, applying project-management practices to meet safety, quality, schedule, technical, and financial objectives. You will work across Supply Chain, Design Engineering, Supplier Quality, project teams, suppliers, and other stakeholders to identify risks, resolve issues, and maintain delivery certainty.
You will report to the APX Turbine Island Supplier Performance Manager and be based from the Villejust / Marseille, France office under a mobile/hybrid work arrangement. The role requires regular domestic and international travel to supplier facilities, approximately 30–50%, with typical trips lasting two to five days.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead supplier manufacturing-readiness, capability, capacity, process-control, and risk assessments for Turbine Island major equipment; identify gaps against technical and quality requirements and implement closure plans.
- Develop and execute Supplier Oversight Plans covering critical document submittals, manufacturing activities, surveillance points, inspections, tests, and documented results.
- Provide on-site and remote supplier oversight to verify compliance with applicable specifications, codes, standards, approved processes, manufacturing plans, and quality requirements.
- Monitor supplier performance through scorecards, dashboards, on-time delivery, quality issues, deviation notices, and other leading indicators; identify adverse trends and implement mitigation, recovery, or Supplier Improvement Plans.
- Manage supplier issues and corrective actions, including nonconformances, dispositions, root-cause analysis, SCARs, preventive and corrective actions, and escalation of significant technical, quality, schedule, or security-of-supply risks.
- Review complex engineering drawings, manufacturing and quality plans, supplier process documents, and technical submittals.
- Apply manufacturing expertise through oversight of supplier processes of machining, welding, forming, heat treatment, mechanical and electro-mechanical assembly, nondestructive examination, instrumentation integration, inspection, and testing, as applicable to assigned equipment.
- Coordinate cross-functional and international activities among Supply Chain, Design Engineering, Supplier Quality, project leadership, customers, and suppliers to enable timely decisions, effective communication, and prompt issue resolution.
- Demonstrate leadership through technical direction, sound judgment, stakeholder alignment, mentoring, and a strong commitment to personal, industrial, and nuclear safety.
Qualifications
- Bachelors degree in Mechanical, Materials, Manufacturing, or related Engineering discipline.
- Minimum of 5 years of relevant engineering, manufacturing, fabrication, supplier performance, and/or supplier quality experience.
- Experience in heavy fabrication and the manufacture of large, complex mechanical or electro-mechanical components, preferably in nuclear, power generation, aerospace, or another highly regulated industry.
- Project management
- Leading complex supplier engagements
- Working knowledge with manufacturing and quality plans as well as complex engineering drawings and specifications
- Nondestructive testing/examination awareness (PT/UT/MT/RT), direct experience preferred
- Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to influence suppliers, coordinate diverse stakeholders, escalate issues appropriately, and communicate concise status and risk information
- Willingness to travel (domestically and internationally) to support oversight of manufacturing processes at supplier shops
Why Westinghouse?
We know that to put forth your best effort, you need to be challenged and enjoy what you do in a supportive and respectful environment. We aim to maintain this balance by offering our employees the amenities, benefits and training they need to reach personal and professional goals.
Below is an example of what employees in France can expect:
- Attractive remuneration
- Peer-to-peer recognition program.
- Lunch vouchers
- Transportation allowance
- Work-from-home allowance
- Employee Assistance Program: confidential counseling and resources for employees, eligible dependents, and household members
- Learning and development opportunities.
- We encourage our employees to participate in community service events and other team-building activities to strengthen their bonds and inspire each other.
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