Suppliers Inspection Control Manager

**Suppliers Inspection Control Manager**:
Wärtsilä Energy leads the transition towards a 100% renewable energy future. We help our partners to accelerate their decarbonisation journeys through our market-leading technologies and power system modelling expertise. These cover decarbonisation services, future-fuel enabled balancing power plants, hybrid solutions, energy storage and optimisation technology, including the GEMS Digital Energy Platform.

Did you know Wärtsilä has delivered 76 GW of power plant capacity and more 110 energy storage systems in 180 countries around the world?

In this fast changing world of energy, we are constantly on the lookout for future-oriented talent to join our team and to work towards enabling sustainable societies through innovation in technology and services - together. Want to join the ride?

We are now looking for a

**Suppliers Inspection Control Manager**

having senior experience to lead our team of 6 Suppliers Inspectors & Quality Experts in charge of respectively executing quality plan inspections & developing quality deliveries of our nuclear & military suppliers base historically used for SPecial Applications (SPA) engines spare parts & services business.

In line with the SPA strategy, and within a collaborative spirit as part of the SPA Purchasing department, ensure the achievement and monitoring of the quality requirements of supplies & services enabling customers to operate their Diesel 4-Stroke engines installed base in the nuclear and military fields.

The preferred location for the position is in Surgères (France), or alternatively Mulhouse (France), and eventually Paris (France), considering team members split between Surgères & Mulhouse.

**What you will be doing**
- Be responsible for the management and development of the team of inspectors and quality experts ensuring inspections and quality assessments on components & services for SPA activities [60~80 Meuros yearly GTV].
- Define and develop the distribution of inspections & jobs between team members.
- Monitor the performance of inspections & controls, and ensure regular reporting.
- Lead and challenge team's continuous improvement actions, managing changes implementation and improvements.
- Training: define the trainings & required valid certifications for concerned team activities.
- Put in place the appropriate organization, material, human resources, incl. external service inspections provider to secure continuous service whatever peak jobs demand & contributing to reactive & decarbonized local mobilization as appropriate.
- Ensure that our suppliers take into account the overall technical, quality and heavy specific requirements of our nuclear & military business.

For us to be the best match, we expect you to have understanding in the criticality of coordinating the required actions mobilization as appropriate with technical and quality departments and having experience of purchasing/manufacturing critical components in similar areas.
- Internally

Operational purchasing team, logistic team, workshop, internal customers & other planning related parties. Sales teams, technical service teams, suppliers validation team, documentary quality & operational control quality teams.
- Externally

External customers and representatives: carrying out joint inspections at suppliers premises.
Subcontractor: piloting / management / commercial negotiation of external service inspections provider.
Suppliers and customers quality representatives: notify non-conformities and monitor their resolution.

**As Suppliers Inspection Control Manager your work will focus on these responsibilities**:

- Plan, coordinate, supervise and validate inspection jobs in full independent authority from quality 1st perspective.
- Define, deploy, communicate and monitor the forecast schedule for supplier inspections in connection with the purchasing delivery schedule.
- Supervise the sending of inspection notices.
- Communicate the progress & outcome of inspections to operational purchasing.
- Identify critical component quality issues and verify their effective treatment.
- Verify and validate purchase orders according to applicable requirements including the quality documentation required when placing orders with suppliers, according to customer requirements.
- Determine and monitor team performance & suppliers quality indicators.
- Propose improvements to systems, practices and procedures for continuous improvement within the framework of the “Nuclear Quality and Culture” strategy and objectives.
- Participate in maintaining all required certifications via internal or customer audits.
- May be required to carry out inspections at suppliers (one-off trips).

**To be successful in this role, we expect you to have**:

- Comply with applicable rules regarding Quality, Safety and Environment, in accordance with Wärtsilä’s commitment.
- Monitor and comply with nuclear safety rules.
- Respect and improve inspections process