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As a leading clean energy technology company, we're helping businesses, communities, utilities, and data centers meet growing energy demands with reliable, always-on power solutions.\nWith nearly a gigawatt of fuel cell platforms deployed worldwide, we're accelerating the transition to a more resilient energy future. Join a team of innovators, problem-solvers, and industry pioneers who are tackling some of the world's most complex energy challenges while shaping the next generation of sustainable power.\nYour work here won't just power facilities. It will help power the future.\nThe pay for this position ranges from $130000 - $155000.\nPosition Summary\nThe Supplier Quality Manager owns the quality performance of FCE's external supply base. The role sets the standards suppliers must meet before their parts enter production, verifies that they continue to meet those standards once they do, and drives corrective action when they do not. Working across purchasing, engineering, manufacturing, and the suppliers themselves, the manager is accountable for reducing supplier-caused defects, shortening the time it takes to close quality escapes, and qualifying new sources without introducing risk into the production schedule.\nReporting to the Director of Quality and Reliability, this position leads supplier quality engineers and technicians, represents FCE in supplier quality reviews, and serves as the escalation point for supply-base issues that threaten delivery, cost, or customer commitments.\nKey Responsibilities\nSupplier Qualification and Onboarding\nLead the technical assessment and approval of new suppliers, including capability reviews, on-site audits, and risk scoring, and issue the approval decision that allows a source to be added to the approved supplier list.\nDefine quality requirements in supplier agreements and quality manuals, covering inspection expectations, documentation, change notification, and record retention.\nGovern the part approval process, reviewing submissions for dimensional results, material certifications, process capability studies, and control plans before granting production approval.\nAssess and approve supplier requests for process, tooling, material, or location changes before implementation.\nSupplier Performance Management\nOwn the supplier quality scorecard, tracking defect rates, on-time corrective action closure, first-pass yield, and audit findings, and publish results to purchasing and operations leadership on a defined cadence.\nConduct business and quality reviews with strategic suppliers, setting improvement targets and holding suppliers accountable to committed timelines.\nIdentify chronically underperforming suppliers, build the case for development or resourcing, and support purchasing through the transition.\nNonconformance and Corrective Action\nDirect the containment, disposition, and root cause investigation of supplier nonconformances, including incoming inspection rejections, line stoppages, and field escapes.\nReview supplier corrective action responses for genuine root cause analysis and verifiable, permanent countermeasures, rejecting responses that stop at symptom-level fixes.\nVerify the effectiveness of implemented corrective actions and close issues only after evidence confirms the defect mode has been eliminated.\nManage supplier chargebacks and cost recovery for quality-related sorting, rework, scrap, and premium freight.\nAdvanced Quality Planning and Launch\nRepresent supplier quality on new product development teams, ensuring purchased components are designed, sourced, and validated to meet requirements before launch.\nReview supplier process flow diagrams, failure mode analyses, and control plans, and confirm that critical characteristics are properly identified and controlled.\nLead run-at-rate and capacity verification activities to confirm suppliers can sustain quality at required production volumes.\nAudits, Compliance, and Systems\nPlan and execute the annual supplier audit schedule, using risk to prioritize which suppliers are audited and how deeply.\nEnsure supplier quality processes satisfy applicable quality management system and customer-specific requirements, and support internal, customer, and registrar audits.\nMaintain accurate supplier quality records and drive the use of quality data systems so that performance reporting is timely and defensible.\nLeadership and Collaboration\nLead, coach, and develop a team of supplier quality engineers and technicians, setting priorities and building technical depth across the group.\nPartner with purchasing on sourcing decisions, with engineering on specification and print clarity, and with operations on the incoming quality issues that affect the production floor.\nManage the supplier quality budget, including travel, third-party inspection, and sorting expenses.\nOther duties as assigned.\nQualifications\nRequired\nBachelor's degree in engineering, manufacturing, materials science, or a closely related technical field.\nSeven or more years of quality engineering or supplier quality experience in a manufacturing environment, including at least two years leading people or projects.\nDemonstrated command of core quality methods: root cause analysis, statistical process control, measurement systems analysis, process capability, and failure mode and effects analysis.\nWorking knowledge of a recognized quality management system standard and of the part approval and control plan disciplines used in regulated or customer-audited industries.\nAbility to read engineering drawings and apply geometric dimensioning and tolerancing to inspection and acceptance decisions.\nWillingness to travel to domestic and international supplier sites, and to lead difficult conversations with suppliers and internal stakeholders.\nPreferred\nCertification as a quality engineer, quality manager, or lead auditor.\nSix Sigma Black Belt or equivalent formal problem-solving credential.\nExperience developing suppliers in machining, castings, forgings, electronics, or coatings.\nExperience managing a global supply base, including low-cost-country sourcing.\nFamiliarity with enterprise quality management software and supplier portals.\nWorking Conditions and Travel\nThis position is based at the Torrington facility and combines office work with time on the manufacturing floor and in supplier plants, where personal protective equipment is required. Travel to supplier sites is expected on a regular basis and varies with launch activity and open quality issues.\nEqual Opportunity Employer\nFuelCell Energy is an equal-opportunity employer committed to an inclusive and safe work environment for people of all backgrounds.\nWe offer a competitive compensation package as well as comprehensive benefits including medical, dental, vision, company-paid life/disability insurance, 401(k) plan, employee stock purchase plan, and generous paid leave.\nThe successful candidate is required to complete a drug screen, criminal background check, and employment and education verification.\nFuelCell Energy, Inc. is committed to ensuring that its application process provides an equal employment opportunity to all U.S. job seekers, including individuals with disabilities. If you believe you need a reasonable accommodation in order to search for a job opening or to submit an application, please send an email with your resume to  or contact us by calling 860-496-2222. Please indicate the specifics of the assistance needed.\nNOTE: This dedicated phone line and email address are designed exclusively to assist disabled job seekers whose disability prevents them from being able to apply online. Only messages left for this purpose will be acknowledged. A response to your request may take up to two business days.\nNo agency submissions please. Resumes submitted to any FuelCell Energy employee without a current, signed and valid contract in place with the FuelCell Energy Recruiting team for this position will become the property of FuelCell Energy and no agency fees will be paid.\nFor more information about FuelCell Energy and our available openings, please visit our website: https://www.fuelcellenergy.com/careers\nWe thank all candidates for their interest in a career with FuelCell Energy. 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