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Panelmatic

Designs and builds electrical control panels

Director of Supplier Quality

Quality EngineeringConfirmed live in the last 24 hours
Full-timeHouston, TX, USANo salary listedIn-person

About the Job

Requirements

  • A bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Industrial Engineering, Quality, Manufacturing Engineering, or a related technical field is required.
  • At least 10 years of progressive quality experience in manufacturing, including significant supplier quality leadership responsibility, is required.
  • Demonstrated experience building or leading supplier qualification, auditing, corrective action, performance management, and supplier development programs is required.
  • Strong working knowledge of ISO 9001 and supplier-quality tools such as PPAP, FAI, APQP/quality planning, FMEA, control plans, MSA, process capability, and 8D/SCAR is required.
  • Experience auditing suppliers and evaluating manufacturing capability, process controls, special processes, inspection/test systems, and corrective-action effectiveness is required.
  • Proficiency interpreting engineering drawings, customer specifications, technical requirements, and quality documentation and translating them into clear supplier quality requirements is required.
  • Experience using ERP, eQMS, supplier scorecards, quality data systems, and analytical tools to manage supplier performance is required.
  • Strong communication, leadership, change-management, technical influencing, and cross-functional collaboration skills, including the ability to challenge suppliers and internal stakeholders constructively, are required.
  • Ability to make risk-based decisions, lead through influence, and manage high-severity supplier issues in a fast-paced engineered-to-order manufacturing environment is required.

Responsibilities

  • Define and maintain supplier quality standards, quality clauses, specifications, acceptance criteria, and critical-to-quality requirements.
  • Standardize supplier quality agreements and documentation expectations across sites and product families.
  • Lead risk-based supplier quality qualification using capability assessments, quality-system reviews, process audits, and approved supplier list quality approval criteria.
  • Define PPAP, FAI, process validation, special-process qualification, and other quality evidence required based on supplier and product risk.
  • Influence supplier selection based on objective evidence of performance.
  • Represent Supplier Quality in NPDI and phase/gate reviews, and lead supplier feasibility, FMEA, control-plan, capability, and readiness activities.
  • Establish component- and system-level reliability requirements.
  • Establish supplier change-notification and requalification requirements for changes that may affect product quality, reliability, or compliance.
  • Define supplier quality requirements flowing from customer, engineering, regulatory, inspection, testing, documentation, and traceability needs, and partner with Procurement/Supply Chain on supplier-facing requirements.
  • Set risk-based receiving-inspection strategy and escalation requirements; Site QC executes receiving inspection unless otherwise assigned.
  • Ensure required material identification, traceability, certificates, and special-process records are maintained.
  • Build and execute a risk-based supplier audit and surveillance program covering quality systems, process controls, special processes, capability, traceability, and compliance.
  • Use audit and performance results to drive supplier improvement, containment, controlled shipping, source inspection, enhanced inspection, or requalification as needed, and establish and maintain receiving inspection capability.
  • Manage supplier scorecards using PPM/defect rate, receiving results, escapes/DOA, warranty impact, production disruption, critical events, responsiveness, and corrective-action performance.
  • Own the SCAR/8D process from containment through root cause, permanent corrective action, effectiveness verification, and recurrence prevention.
  • Lead escalation of chronic supplier issues and use Pareto/trend data to prioritize actions and reduce defects, escapes, disruption, and quality cost.
  • Lead supplier development plans for new, high-risk, or underperforming suppliers using audits, capability improvement, control plans, MSA, mistake-proofing, Lean/Six Sigma, and structured problem solving.
  • Quantify supplier-attributable Cost of Poor Quality and provide validated data to Procurement/Supply Chain and Finance for recovery or supplier business decisions; Supplier Quality does not own commercial negotiations.
  • Lead, coach, and develop the Supplier Quality organization, including SQEs and assigned supplier-quality resources.
  • Establish common SQE competencies, training, performance standards, and risk-based staffing; use approximately one SQE per $50M of direct-material spend as an initial planning guideline, adjusted for complexity and workload.
  • Partner with Manufacturing Quality, Engineering, Customer Care, Operations, and QMS/Compliance on supplier-related quality risks, defects, field issues, audits, and corrective actions.
  • Represent Supplier Quality in leadership reviews, major supplier escalations, customer/certification audits, and critical issue reviews.
  • Manage supplier quality standards, supplier quality risk classification, qualification audits, capability assessment, PPAP/FAI, special-process validation, and quality approval status within ASL governance.
  • Oversee supplier feasibility, phase/gate quality deliverables, FMEA participation, critical characteristic flow-down, supplier change notification, requalification, and incoming validation strategy.
  • Manage supplier PPM/defects, escapes/DOA, warranty or field impact, SCAR/8D, containment, quality escalation, controlled shipping, and effectiveness verification.
  • Direct supplier development plans, process capability improvement, audits/surveillance, documented supplier CoPQ, and quality-based recommendations for requalification or disqualification.

Desired Qualifications

  • A master's degree in Engineering, Engineering Management, Quality, Operations, or a related technical field is preferred.
  • Lean Six Sigma Black Belt or Master Black Belt; ASQ CQE, CQA, CQM/OE, CSQP, or similar quality/supplier-quality certification is preferred.
  • Experience with engineered electrical/electromechanical products such as industrial control panels, switchgear, power distribution equipment, relay/control panels, engineered enclosures, fabricated metals, electrical components, or related supply chains is preferred.
  • Experience leading supplier quality across multiple manufacturing sites and a geographically diverse supplier base, including supplier integration after acquisition or rapid growth, is preferred.
  • Experience with UL/NEMA/NEC, customer-specific, regulatory, or other applicable electrical/manufacturing compliance requirements is preferred.

About the Company

Panelmatic

Designs and builds electrical control panels

Panelmatic designs and builds custom electrical control panels, power distribution systems, and integrated control houses for heavy industrial and high-reliability applications. It offers turnkey solutions from design and engineering through manufacturing and field support, with engineering, fabrication, and testing done in-house to control timelines and quality. The company differentiates itself through its vertically integrated process, bespoke systems, NEC/UL compliance, and the ability to serve harsh environments, plus its expansion into modular data center solutions under private equity ownership by Neos Partners. Its goal is to reliably power critical industrial processes across utilities, renewables, oil and gas, data centers, and metals/mining, while expanding product lines and markets.

Company size
201-500
Company stage
Not listed
Total funding
Not listed
Headquarters
North Houston District, Texas
Founded
1957

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