Supplier Quality Engineer

Xylem is a Fortune 500 global water solutions company dedicated to advancing sustainable impact and empowering the people who make water work every day. As a leading water technology company with 23,000 employees operating in over 150 countries, Xylem is at the forefront of addressing the world's most critical water challenges. We invite passionate individuals to join our team, dedicated to exceeding customer expectations through innovative and sustainable solutions.

Sensus, a Xylem brand, is hiring a Supplier Quality Engineer (Industrial Engineer) ready to make a real impact. This is your opportunity to be on the front lines of technological excellence—driving supplier performance, reducing risk, and ensuring our customers receive world-class products every time.

You’ll take a proactive approach to quality, identifying potential failure points before they happen and leading root-cause investigations alongside cross-functional teams (CFTs). Partnering closely with Sourcing and Engineering, you’ll challenge suppliers, implement robust corrective actions, and push continuous improvement across the supply base. Your work will directly strengthen product reliability, accelerate innovation, and help us consistently exceed customer expectations.

Uniontown, PA Position is hybrid

The Role:  Supplier Quality Engineer will execute their strategy of technological excellence and to increase focus on delighting customers. This role will support operational supplier quality success in relation to specific product quality concerns and new product development by categorizing suppliers and supplier quality auditing resources in the region by product types, performance, and expertise.  This role will support Site Quality Managers, XGP Supplier Quality, Engineering, and Customer Service to share auditing resources, establish supplier improvement programs, advise product development CTQs, establish gaging plans, and assure the voice of our customers translates to our supply base.

Essential Duties/Principal Responsibilities:

• Lead rapid response meetings with key participants to outline details, strategy, impact, and corrective and preventative actions while also providing daily and/or weekly status updates for key stakeholders. 

• Assist with conducting quality audits, identifying, documenting, and providing solutions for Non-Conformances (NCR's) Corrective Actions (CAR's) & Preventive Actions (PAR's)

• Knowledge of manufacturing process associated with plastic molding, metal stamping, machining, castings, painting, electro-plating, cables and printed circuit board assembly

• Improve supplier quality performance by developing a Supplier Report Card with Sourcing and communicating with suppliers on a regular basis

• Collaborate with Engineering and Product Management to identify and define CTQs, establish gaging plans for CTQs, and provide recommendations for suppliers on new products launches and sustaining engineering changes. 

• Partner with XGP to develop a Xylem and Supplier joint verification process on critical supplier receipts based on supplier performance. 

• Partner with Sourcing to implement supplier quality requirements during the Request for Quote process

• Support new product launches to ensure suppliers can deliver to the required quality standards.

• Support on-site or remote external audits for the MCS Operations Quality Team and monitor timely responses to audit findings, auditor requests, and escalates audit related risks.

• Assure the Production Part Approval Process is in place and effective for supplier supplied parts.

• Conduct and support rapid response problem solving initiatives for NA supplier risks with a strong sense of urgency.

• Issue supplier score cards and create a development plan for problem suppliers to support performance targets and monitor performance in meeting Sensus goals 

• Track operational supplier quality audits and supplier product quality spills.  Work with business unit leaders to resource and support supplier activities to resolve product quality defects and process non-conformances. 

• Support supplier assessment activities and assignments in collaboration with Xylem XGP and engage XGP in operational supplier quality activities when appropriate.

• Recover costs from supplier-caused nonconformances.

• Support company goals and objectives as required

Requirements:   

• 7+ years’ experi