Supplier Quality Manager

Do you want to work with high-caliber professionals in a dynamic and growing company? Are you entrepreneurial, hard-working, and collegial? Join us at SB Energy, a leading infrastructure company backed by SoftBank Group and Ares Infrastructure, pairing cutting-edge innovation with best-in-class execution. Our mission is to deliver reliable and secure data center and power infrastructure to strengthen America's future. Founded in 2019, SB Energy is a SoftBank Group company headquartered in Redwood City, California. In 2026, SoftBank Group and OpenAI announced a $1 billion investment to support SB Energy as their leading development and execution partner for data center campuses, while Ares Infrastructure continues its long-standing support of the company's growth. SB Energy develops, builds, owns, and operates some of the largest and most technically advanced energy and data center infrastructure projects in the United States. Since its founding, the company has rapidly grown into a top-tier integrated platform with more than 3 gigawatts (GW) in operation and a multi-GW pipeline of energy and data center infrastructure nationwide. SB Energy also leverages a strong culture of innovation to identify and integrate new technologies into its projects, including its AI-based digital platform, delivering energy infrastructure that is local, reliable, and matched to load. We are building the energy and infrastructure future—today. Come join us in accelerating the energy and infrastructure transition! Title- Supplier Quality Manager Basic Function: The Supplier Quality Manager will help develop, implement, and operate the supplier quality program supporting SB Energy's data center portfolio. Reporting to the Director of Quality, this role will establish and manage quality controls for owner-furnished/contractor-installed (OFCI) and other critical supplier-provided equipment from supplier qualification and design review through production, factory testing, shipment, site receipt, installation, startup, and final turnover. The Supplier Quality Manager will work closely with equipment suppliers, OEMs, engineering, procurement, project teams, third-party inspectors, general contractors, commissioning teams, site quality personnel, and operations to confirm that supplier-provided equipment meets SB Energy's technical requirements, approved specifications, quality standards, and project schedules. This role will support the broader SB Energy Quality Program by developing standardized supplier quality procedures, supplier requirements, inspection and test plans, factory audit processes, reporting tools, performance metrics, and corrective action workflows that can be consistently deployed across data center projects. Duties and Responsibilities: Supplier Quality Program Development and Governance Partner with the Director of Quality to develop, launch, operate, and continuously improve the supplier quality component of the SB Energy Quality Program. Establish program standards, specifications, procedures, workflows, templates, checklists, approval criteria, roles, and stage gates for critical supplier-provided equipment. Develop risk-based quality requirements and oversight plans based on equipment criticality, technical complexity, supplier capability, project schedule, and prior performance. Integrate supplier quality requirements with engineering, procurement, project quality plans, construction, commissioning, operations, and turnover processes. Support development of quality language for equipment specifications, contracts, purchase orders, scopes of work, supplier data requirements, and third-party inspection services. Maintain a centralized repository of approved supplier quality standards, forms, inspection records, and lessons learned in company-approved systems and tools. Drive standardization across projects while allowing documented, risk-based adjustments for project-specific requirements. Supplier Qualification and Quality Planning Lead or coordinate supplier due diligence, qualification audits, capability assessments, and periodic performance reviews. Assess supplier quality management systems, organization, technical capability, production capacity, process controls, sub-tier supplier management, material traceability, calibration, document control, nonconformance management, and corrective action processes. Support procurement and engineering teams during sourcing, prequalification, bid evaluation, supplier selection, and award recommendations. Develop supplier risk ratings and define the appropriate level of surveillance, audit, inspection, and testing for each equipment package. Review supplier quality plans, inspection and test plans (ITPs), production schedules, factory acceptance test (FAT) procedures, inspection checklists, and required quality submittals. Establish clear hold points, witness points, review points, release criteria, documentation requirements, and notification periods before production begins. Confirm that quality requirements are flowed down to critical sub-tier suppliers and incorporated into supplier production and testing plans. Supplier Oversight, Factory Inspection, and Testing Plan and manage supplier audits, in-process production surveillance, source inspections, factory acceptance testing, bench testing, controls testing, final inspections, and shipment release reviews. Perform inspections directly and coordinate qualified third-party inspectors, testing agencies, and subject matter experts when specialized coverage is required. Verify compliance with approved drawings, specifications, submittals, bills of material, production procedures, inspection criteria, test procedures, and applicable codes and standards. Evaluate materials, critical dimensions, workmanship, assembly, labeling, configuration, cleanliness, preservation, packaging, test results, and readiness for shipment. Confirm that ins