Spirax Sarco
Supplier Development Engineer
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The role
We are looking for a Supplier Development Engineer to join our UK Supply Operations team in Cheltenham.
This is an exciting opportunity to play a key role in driving quality improvements across our supplier base, ensuring high standards of supplier performance and supporting continuous improvement initiatives throughout the business.
You will work closely with internal stakeholders and suppliers to enhance quality systems, reduce non-conformance, and support sourcing and supplier development activities.
Key Responsibilities
- Support supplier selection activities to ensure suppliers meet business and quality requirements.
- Conduct supplier quality audits in line with company and industry standards.
- Work with suppliers to implement robust quality planning and control processes.
- Lead cross-functional feasibility reviews and purchased part validation activities.
- Analyse supplier performance data and identify opportunities for quality improvement.
- Manage supplier corrective actions and drive effective resolution of non-conformances.
- Promote continuous improvement through structured problem-solving methodologies.
- Deliver supplier training and support the implementation of quality best practices.
- Provide technical quality support to purchasing teams and other stakeholders.
- Contribute to business process improvement initiatives and uphold company EHS standards and values.
Your Skills
- Experience in a Quality Engineering or Supplier Quality role within a manufacturing environment.
- Strong understanding of ISO 9001 and quality management systems.
- Experience in supplier quality management, quality planning, and corrective action processes.
- Skilled in quality auditing, root cause analysis, and continuous improvement techniques such as Six Sigma, Kaizen, 5 Whys, and FMEA.
- Ability to manage projects, facilitate meetings, and build strong relationships with suppliers and stakeholders.
- Confident interpreting engineering drawings and quality inspection requirements.
- Relevant engineering or quality qualification, or equivalent practical experience.
- A proactive, collaborative approach with excellent communication and problem-solving skills.
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Desirable Experience
- Supplier development experience.
- Lead Auditor qualification.
- Experience within valves, castings, forgings, or related engineering sectors.
- Knowledge of ISO 14001, ISO 45001, or Pressure Equipment Directive (PED) requirements.
- Chartered Quality Professional status (CQI) or similar qualification.
Join us and help drive supplier excellence, quality improvement, and operational performance across a global engineering business.
About Us
The Steam Thermal Solutions business is one of three businesses within Spirax Group. Spirax Sarco and Gestra, are our two brands that form Steam Thermal Solutions and are global leaders in the supply of engineered solutions for the design, provision and maintenance of efficient industrial and commercial steam systems. Steam Thermal Solutions has global coverage across 67 operating units (called OpCos), organised into four Divisions: EMEA, APAC, Americas, Gestra.
Spirax Group is a FTSE100 and FTSE4Good multi-national industrial engineering Group with expertise in the control and management of steam, electric thermal solutions, peristaltic pumping and associated fluid technologies.
Our Purpose is to create sustainable value for all our stakeholders as we engineer a more efficient, safer and sustainable world. Our technologies play an essential role in critical industrial processes and industrial equipment across industries as diverse as Food & Beverage, Pharmaceutical & Biotechnology, Power Generation, Semiconductors and Healthcare. With customers in 165 countries, we provide the solutions that sit behind the production of many items used in daily life, from baked beans to mobile phones!
Our Purpose, supported by our inclusive culture and Values, unites us, guides our decisions and inspires us everywhere that we operate. We support our colleagues to make their difference for each other as well as customers, communities, suppliers, our planet and shareholders by creating a truly equitable working environment where everyone feels included.
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Benefits
You will receive a competitive salary (and a discretionary bonus), flexible working and excellent benefits including 27 days holiday allowance (before bank holidays), 3 days’ paid volunteering leave, comprehensive private healthcare, enhanced pension plan, life assurance, optional participation in a Share Ownership Plan, free onsite parking, flexible benefits, and access to a personal discounts’ portal. We also offer a range of additional support and benefits through our Everyone is Included Group Inclusion Plan, detailed below.
Everyone is Included at Spirax Group
We are passionate about creating inclusive and equitable working cultures where everyone can be themselves and achieve their full potential. For us, that means supportive teams and strong relationships where everyone’s contribution is valued - across social and cultural backgrounds, ethnicities, ages, genders, gender identities, abilities, neurodiversity, sexual orientation, religious beliefs, and everything else that makes us human and unique.
We want everyone to be able to make their difference here, so we will always consider requests for flexible working.
We know that everyone needs some extra help from time to time too, so we have introduced a range of additional benefits through our Group Inclusion Commitments. These include gender-neutral parental leave, 15 days of extra paid caregiver leave, paid time off and support for anyone experiencing pregnancy loss or domestic abuse, menopause-friendly workplace principles and more. Learn more at https://www.spiraxgroup.com/en/life-at-spirax/our-inclusive-group/our-inclusion-commitments.
We are also a Disability Confident Committed Employer. If you would like to apply using this scheme, please select this option in our application form or notify our recruitment partners.
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