What are the responsibilities and job description for the Supplier Quality Engineer position at Xylem?
Sensus, a Xylem brand, is hiring a Supplier Quality Engineer (Industrial Engineer) ready to make a real impact. This is your opportunity to be on the front lines of technological excellence—driving supplier performance, reducing risk, and ensuring our customers receive world-class products every time.
You’ll take a proactive approach to quality, identifying potential failure points before they happen and leading root-cause investigations alongside cross-functional teams (CFTs). Partnering closely with Sourcing and Engineering, you’ll challenge suppliers, implement robust corrective actions, and push continuous improvement across the supply base. Your work will directly strengthen product reliability, accelerate innovation, and help us consistently exceed customer expectations.
Essential Duties/Principal Responsibilities:
- Lead rapid response meetings with key participants to outline details, strategy, impact, and corrective and preventative actions while also providing daily and/or weekly status updates for key stakeholders.
- Assist with conducting quality audits, identifying, documenting, and providing solutions for Non-Conformances (NCR's) Corrective Actions (CAR's) & Preventive Actions (PAR's)
- Knowledge of manufacturing process associated with plastic molding, metal stamping, machining, castings, painting, electro-plating, cables and printed circuit board assembly
- Improve supplier quality performance by developing a Supplier Report Card with Sourcing and communicating with suppliers on a regular basis
The estimated salary range for this position is $90,000 to $105,000. Starting pay is dependent on multiple factors, such as skills, experience and work location, and is not typically at the top of the range. At Xylem we offer a competitive compensation package with a generous benefit package, including Medical, Dental, Vision plans, 401(k) with company contribution, paid time off, paid parental leave and tuition reimbursement
Salary : $90,000 - $105,000