SUPPLIER QUALITY/FAILURE ANALYSIS ENGINEER-Magnolia, TX (Architecture)

This is a dual role as a Supplier Quality Engineer and Failure Analysis Engineer.

As the Supplier Quality Engineer, you will drive Supplier Quality improvements for the Canrig Manufacturing Global Supply Chain.  This all-encompassing role includes owning and driving accountability for supplier qualification programs, supplier performance reporting and corresponding improvement actions and plans where needed, developing and monitoring supplier scorecards and taking action towards improving supplier performance, ensuring supplier conformance to manufacturing and quality specifications, and building relationships with suppliers in order to enable robust Master Pricing Agreements to be crafted.  In this role you will be accountable for annual supplier requalification and auditing and will be a partner to our global suppliers.  Help our suppliers in developing Lean process approaches and supporting supplier failure investigation and root cause analysis determination with respective corrective action.

As the Failure Analysis Engineer, you will be responsible for coordinating failure analysis on various Canrig equipment and product components, including product failure in the field and product and/or component failure associated with supplier quality.  In this role you are accountable for taking the lead on investigations using sound testing and analysis methodologies to determine the source of failure, including lab testing, physical testing, material testing, and process testing as examples.  It is incumbent in this role to have a strong knowledge of both technical and scientific based root cause analysis methods in order to drive to failure determinations tied to and supported by data.  In this role you will be responsible for taking decision on product recalls, and both long- and short-term risk mitigation when a systemic failure may be discovered.