Supplier Quality Engineer, Mechanical

The role

The Supplier Quality Engineer, Mechanical owns supplier quality for mechanical equipment including CDUs, chillers, pumps, and piping packages. This role involves running supplier audits, setting inspection and test plans, and driving root cause and corrective action.

What you will do

• Own supplier quality for mechanical equipment: CDUs, chillers, pumps, and piping packages from qualification through delivery.
• Run supplier audits and production readiness reviews before award.
• Source inspections before anything ships.
• Set the inspection and test plans suppliers build to, including factory acceptance test witness points.
• Drive root cause and corrective action on quality escapes.
• Verify the fix at the supplier floor.

Required qualifications

• Done supplier quality for mechanical or HVAC equipment manufacturers, on their floors.
• Witnessed factory acceptance tests and failed one when it deserved to fail.
• Write inspection plans from drawings and specs, not from templates.
• Corrective actions close with evidence, and repeat escapes from suppliers are rare.
• Work in non-climate-controlled environments, including active construction areas, data halls, electrical and mechanical rooms, and outdoor spaces.
• Lift, carry, push and pull up to 40 pounds on your own.
• Sit, stand, walk, kneel, bend and crouch for long periods, including full shifts on your feet.
• Wear the required personal protective equipment (PPE), such as hard hats, safety glasses, steel-toed boots, gloves and hearing protection.
• Follow site safety rules.
• Climb stairs and ladders, and move around equipment, cable trays and uneven surfaces.

Nice to have

• Liquid cooling equipment
• ASME and ISO quality systems
• Welding and brazing inspection
• PPAP or APQP experience

About the company

Fluidstack aims to deliver 10 to 100s of GWs of compute faster than anyone else by designing, building, and operating data centers. They focus on building civilization-scale infrastructure for AI.