Function: Supply Chain Quality and Assurance
Reports to: Quality Manager / Procurement Manager
Supervises: Audit team members or inspection coordinators, as assigned
Role Purpose
Provide independent, risk-based quality audits and proactive vendor expediting to ensure suppliers comply with contractual quality requirements and deliver materials, equipment, and documentation in line with the project schedule.
Key Responsibilities
- Develop audit and expediting plans based on supplier criticality, manufacturing complexity, quality risk, and required-on-site dates.
- Review purchase orders, vendor quality plans, manufacturing schedules, ITPs, suborders, document registers, and inspection assignments.
- Conduct supplier QMS, process, product, and project-specific audits; record objective evidence and classify findings consistently.
- Monitor engineering submissions, material procurement, subvendor progress, fabrication, testing, preservation, packing, and shipping readiness.
- Verify that quality hold points, source inspections, FATs, NDT, certifications, and inspection releases are completed before dispatch.
- Identify schedule and quality risks early, validate recovery plans, and escalate slippage, capacity constraints, unresolved NCRs, or document gaps.
- Facilitate root-cause analysis and track supplier corrective actions to effective closure.
- Issue concise visit reports, audit reports, milestone forecasts, exception lists, and expediting dashboards with evidence-based status.
- Coordinate procurement, engineering, logistics, inspection, and vendor teams so materials and final documentation arrive together and are acceptance-ready.
Qualifications and Experience
Minimum Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree or HND in Engineering, Quality, Supply Chain, Manufacturing, or a related discipline.
- Typically 7 or more years of quality auditing, supplier quality, vendor inspection, procurement quality, or expediting experience.
- Demonstrated ability to audit QMS/processes and to evaluate realistic manufacturing progress beyond reported percentages.
- Strong knowledge of vendor documentation, inspection release, FAT, preservation, packing, logistics, and final data-book requirements.
- Excellent interviewing, negotiation, analytical reporting, and stakeholder-escalation skills.
Preferred Certifications and Standards Knowledge
- ISO 9001 Lead Auditor certification is strongly preferred.
- Relevant technical inspection certification (CSWIP, API, ASNT/ISO 9712, AMPP/NACE) is advantageous for assigned commodities.
- Professional procurement, quality, or engineering membership is desirable.
Core Competencies
- Risk-based auditing
- Manufacturing-schedule verification
- Supplier corrective-action management
- Quality-gate and inspection-release control
- Clear forecasting and executive escalation
Key Performance Measures
- Critical supplier audits/visits completed to plan
- Vendor milestones achieved against required dates
- Quality and schedule risks escalated with sufficient lead time
- Supplier findings closed effectively and without recurrence
- Materials and final documentation accepted at delivery
Reporting and Interfaces
Internal interfaces: Quality, procurement, engineering, inspection, planning, logistics, construction, and document control teams.
External interfaces: Suppliers, subvendors, third-party inspectors, freight providers, clients, certification bodies, and testing laboratories.
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