Advanced Supplier Quality Engineer

Job Description

Role: Advanced Supplier Quality Engineer
Location: Porto, Portugal

Type of contract: permanent, full-time

Carrier is the leading worldwide provider of heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC), refrigeration, fire, security, and cold chain solutions. We inventedthe modernair conditioning, and our team of pioneers and innovators have a long history of developingnew technologies.

Addvolt, now part of Carrier, global leader in intelligent climate and energy solutions, delivers advanced electrification technology, integrated power management and power electronics capabilitiesfor transport refrigeration and auxiliary systems.Driving innovation in the electrification and decarbonization of onboard systems for refrigerated trailers, trucks,vansand containers,Addvoltempowers fleets to avoid fuel usage, reduce major emissions andoperateefficiently at a remarkably low noise level. By combiningAddvolt’sinnovative power solutions with Carrier Transicold’sexpertisein transport refrigeration, we are enhancing the value we deliver to fleets, original equipmentmanufacturersandlogisticsoperators worldwide. Together with Carrier, we are accelerating the transition to a more sustainable,efficientand intelligent cold chain.

WHO WE ARE

Addvolt is a technology powerhouse with a mission to make goods transportation cleaner and quieter. We developed and offer the world’s first plug-in hybrid system for refrigerated transport, enabling refrigerated trucks to perform cold operations in electric mode with reduced noise and no local emissions.

Our customers are at the heart of every innovation. Working with our partners is a continuous learning opportunity, and joining Addvolt means helping deliver the future of transport today.

WE ARE LOOKING FOR

Addvolt is seeking an Advanced Supplier Quality Engineer with high energy, strong ownership, sound technical judgment, and a prevention-first mindset to join our Quality Team in Porto. This is a combined role covering both advanced supplier quality during project development and operational supplier quality throughout serial production.

Working as the supplier-quality interface between Engineering, Supply Chain, Program Management, Manufacturing, Operations, and suppliers, the Advanced Supplier Quality Engineer owns supplier quality across the complete product lifecycle. During the project phase, the role supports design and sourcing decisions, leads supplier APQP, validates manufacturing feasibility, controls supplier industrialization risk, and secures PPAP and launch readiness. During serial production, the role manages supplier performance, non-conformities, containment, corrective actions, changes, audits, escalation, and supplier development to protect production and customers.

The successful candidate will be equally effective upstream and downstream: challenging manufacturability and quality risks with Engineering before design release, driving suppliers to demonstrate robust and capable processes before SOP, and responding decisively to operational quality issues after launch. The role requires frequent presence at supplier sites and close support to Operations when supplier performance affects safety, quality, delivery, cost, or customer commitments.

As Advanced Supplier Quality Engineer you will:

Project quality, supplier selection and risk management

• Partner with Procurement, Engineering, Manufacturing, and Program Management to assess supplier technical capability, quality maturity, capacity, business continuity, and launch risk before nomination.
• Plan and lead supplier quality system, process, product, and special-process audits; define evidence-based findings, accountable owners, due dates, and verification of closure.
• Approve suppliers and manufacturing locations only when objective evidence demonstrates that requirements, controls, competence, capacity, and risk mitigation are adequate.
• Maintain risk-based supplier segmentation and surveillance plans, focusing resources on critical components, new technologies, weak-performing suppliers, and high-consequence failure modes.

Supplier APQP, industrialization, PPAP and launch readiness

• Lead supplier APQP from sourcing through Start of Production, including feasibility, quality planning, timing, critical-characteristic flow-down, design and process reviews, capacity planning, and safe-launch readiness.
• Define PPAP scope and submission level; review and approve the applicable evidence, including design records, change documents, process flow, PFMEA, Control Plan, MSA, dimensional results, material and performance testing, initial process studies, qualified laboratory evidence, samples, checking aids, and the Part Submission Warrant.
• Ensure alignment and traceability among drawings and specifications, critical characteristics,