Senior Manager, Major Capital Equipment Supplier Quality

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A career at Equinix means being at the center of shaping what comes next and amplifying customer value through innovation and impact. You’ll work across teams, influence key decisions, and help shape the path forward. You’ll find belonging, purpose, and a team that welcomes you—because when you feel valued, you’re empowered to do your best work.

We are seeking a highly skilled Senior Manager, Major Capital Equipment/Supplier Quality to support the performance, reliability, and manufacturability of mission‑critical mechanical and electrical equipment used across our data center operations. In this role, you will partner closely with engineering, operations, and sourcing teams to assess supplier capability, evaluate technical processes, and drive continuous improvements that strengthen product quality and production stability.

The ideal candidate brings strong supplier quality background, hands‑on experience with capital equipment, and a proven ability to apply structured problem‑solving methodologies to enhance supplier performance and ensure high‑quality, scalable manufacturing.

• Business Partnering:
  Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including design, construction, and commissioning to communicate quality risks, resolve stakeholder issues, and ensure on‑time delivery of high‑quality MCE products.
• Resource Management:
  Provide updates on supplier performance, manage team growth, set goals, and resolve resource/budget issues.
• Quality Improvement:
  Align and drive quality improvement activities to improve predictability, responsiveness, and delivered quality. Perform 8D failure analysis to execute corrective actions with demonstrated preventative solutions. Enable execution of capital purchases to achieve cost savings, improve vendor performance, and ensure supply agreements compliance.
• Root Cause Analysis:
  Collaborate with internal stakeholders including Commissioning team and Suppliers to drive Root Cause Analysis and implement lessons learned. Conduct frequent inspections of supplier production facilities and align production line metrics and audits to field performance.
• Cost Savings:
  Drive cost reduction initiatives, maintain forecasts, and track and improve cost of poor quality.
• Supplier Management:
  Work directly with suppliers managing Delivered quality of complex Power and Mechanical infrastructure systems to solve product quality and process issues. Build supplier relationships, mitigate risks, resolve issues, and support new supplier selection.
• Resource Planning:
  Ensure KPIs, manage people and financial resources, and apply project management methodologies.

• Bachelors in technical/engineering or equivalent experience
• 10+ years’ experience in one or more of the following: quality engineering, manufacturing quality engineering, supplier quality engineering, supplier management or Category Management
• Experience with data center/mission critical capital equipment, such as power distribution units (PDUs), UPS systems, chillers, CRAC/CRAH units, switch gear, generators, or other large‑scale mechanical/electrical infrastructure
• Experience evaluating mechanical/electrical assemblies for design robustness, manufacturability, and quality, Interpret and review engineering drawings, specifications, schematics, and test documentation. Observe or validate manufacturing, assembly, or testing processes ntify process or design issues that impact equipment performance, quality, or reliability. Support troubleshooting of component failures, test issues, or process deviations
• Experience driving supplier quality improvements, including supplier audits, process capability assessments, root‑cause analysis, and corrective action implementation (8D, DMAIC, PFMEA, etc.)
• Experience conducting supplier process audits, readiness assessments, and capability reviews. Lead root‑cause analysis. Drive…