# Supplier Development Engineer

Role Summary The Supplier Development Engineer is responsible for supporting the development, qualification, and improvement of supplier capability and capacity in line with strategic business initiatives. The role focuses on improving supplier performance, competitiveness, quality, delivery, cost, capacity, process capability, certifications, and compliance. Working closely with Procurement, Quality, Engineering, Category Management, and Divisional teams, this position drives proactive supplier-development activities, continuous improvement, supplier readiness, risk mitigation, and long-term supplier partnerships. The role may also provide technical subject-matter expertise and support for reactive supplier-performance issues, including critical root-cause corrective-action activities. The Supplier Development Engineer, Specialist supports supplier onboarding, qualification, capability evaluations, supplier audits, and improvement programs to help meet operational, quality, cost, sustainability, and supply-continuity objectives. Key Responsibilities Supplier Development and Performance Improvement Lead supplier-development initiatives to improve supplier quality, delivery, cost, c

- **Id**: 1398983
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/flowserve-supplier-development-engineer>
- **Role**: Industrial Engineering
- **Role family**: Industrial Engineering
- **Seniority**: senior
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Suzhou, China
- **Countries**: CN
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 8
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-09-23T00:00:00Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-09-23
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-14T16:49:36Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 52
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 4900
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Manufacturing, Energy Efficiency, Industrial Machinery

## Company

- **Id**: 1808291
- **Name**: Flowserve
- **Domain**: flowserve.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/flowserve>
- **Size band**: 5000+
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Workday

### Truth index

- **Grade**: B
- **Score**: 81
- **Open postings**: 71
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 0.761
- **Repost share**: 0.028
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 30
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-14T05:58:10Z

## Salary estimate

- **Min usd**: 26000
- **Max usd**: 58000
- **Period**: year
- **Method**: global_role_cell_scaled_by_country
- **Sample n**: 8444

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 52

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 8
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Education

- **Level**: bachelor
- **Optional**: no

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-09-28T14:33:24Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 21
- **Band**: cold
- **Label**: Long shot
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.572
- **P room**: 0.36
- **Age days**: 52
- **Expected fill days**: 30
- **Reasons**: conf:1, stale_co, velocity, win:tail, crowd:brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-14T05:58:10Z

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