Regional Supplier Quality Specialist

About the role

The Americas Region Supplier Quality Specialist supports the Advanced Materials Division located in The Woodlands, Texas. This position reports to the Regional Quality Manager.

Responsibilities

• Maintain and continuously improve the Regional Quality Management System (QMS) to meet supplier certification requirements, evolving business needs, and divisional alignment.
• Build effective partnerships with cross-functional stakeholders to enable consistent supplier quality and audit governance.
• Manage supplier audit activities, including risk-based audit planning, annual supplier evaluations, and audit schedule maintenance.
• Monitor and report regional supplier quality performance, including Key Performance Indicators (KPIs), improvement actions, and supplier-initiated changes.
• Identify and implement continuous improvement opportunities within supplier quality processes and systems based on performance data, audits, visits, and feedback.
• Cover all aspects of the Americas internal audit program, including audit planning, alignment with applicable standards, and tracking of findings and corrective actions.
• Support and facilitate investigations related to supplier and subcontractor quality issues.
• Qualify and approve new suppliers in accordance with defined requirements.
• Administer the QT9 Supplier Module.
• Act as the regional point of coordination for supplier quality and audit governance across Americas manufacturing sites.
• Develop and deploy standardized, risk-based frameworks and tools to strengthen supplier quality management and audit effectiveness.

Qualifications

• Education: Graduate in a technical, engineering, chemistry, or business discipline.
• Experience: 5+ years of working experience in a supplier quality role and/or quality assurance.
• Skills: Leads and drives continuous improvement initiatives, demonstrates strong leadership and influence, exhibits excellent planning, organization, and prioritization skills, applies strong analytical, synthesis, and communication skills, shows flexibility and adaptability, balances planned audit activities with emerging supplier, quality, or operational issues; able to travel 10–30% as required.
• Preferred Qualifications: Six Sigma / LEAN training, experience in leading transformational change within a multidisciplinary environment, understanding of ISO 9001 (AS 9100 and IATF 16949 preferred), experience conducting or supporting quality audits, at minimum ISO 9001, with preference for AS and/or IATF standards.