Principal Reliability Supplier Industrialization Engineer, Precision Machining & Turbomachinery

Job description

Job responsibilities

• Lead supplier industrialization for precision-machined components and turbomachinery parts from design release through production readiness.
• Support commodity design reviews by identifying machining risks, tolerance risks, inspection requirements, and process-control needs.
• Develop commodity FMEAs, supplier qualification requirements, control plans, and acceptance methods for critical hardware.
• Assess supplier capability across machining, heat treatment, surface finishing, balancing, inspection, and special processes.
• Establish process capability targets, first article requirements, inspection plans, and objective evidence for supplier production readiness.
• Monitor supplier performance using quality, delivery, yield, nonconformance, and process-capability data.
• Lead root-cause and corrective-action investigations for recurring supplier nonconformances, dimensional variation, process escapes, and hardware failures.
• Support obsolescence, redesign, and supplier-transition activities while preserving configuration integrity and production continuity.

Job requirements

• Bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering, manufacturing engineering, industrial engineering, or equivalent professional experience.
• Ten or more years of experience in mechanical design, supplier industrialization, manufacturing engineering, supplier quality, and/or precision machining.
• Experience with precision machining processes, engineering drawings, GD&T, inspection methods, and process-capability analysis.
• Ability to evaluate supplier processes, identify technical risks, and define practical controls for complex hardware.
• Ability to communicate clearly with suppliers and cross-functional teams while managing multiple industrialization activities.
• Experience with FMEA, control plans, first article inspection, process validation, and structured root-cause and corrective-action methods.
• Experience with turbomachinery, rotating hardware, high-speed assemblies, bladed components, or tight-tolerance fluid systems.
• Experience with five-axis machining, CNC process development, mill-turn operations, balancing, or complex inspection systems.