Supplier Quality Manager - WSP, Cambridge

Position summary

Build the future with WSP by bringing your supplier quality leadership to complex, highly regulated projects where manufacturing excellence, nuclear safety, and dependable delivery matter. You will provide independent oversight across the supplier lifecycle, helping ensure engineered components meet rigorous client, regulatory, code, and quality program requirements.

Responsibilities

You will strengthen supplier performance and protect project outcomes through hands-on supplier quality leadership across the following activities:

• Provide independent oversight of supplier and contractor manufacturing, welding, inspection, testing, and quality assurance activities.
• Ensure compliance with client requirements, applicable codes and standards, regulatory obligations, and approved quality programs.
• Review and monitor quality assurance programs, Inspection and Test Plans (ITPs), procedures, manufacturing controls, hold points, and witness points.
• Oversee incoming material inspections, in-process verification, final acceptance inspections, manufacturing records, inspection reports, and turnover packages.
• Drive timely disposition and effective closure of nonconformances, deviations, and quality issues, including corrective and preventive actions.
• Lead structured root cause investigations and continuous improvement initiatives that reduce defects, rework, schedule impacts, and recurring issues.
• Benchmark industry best practices and lessons learned to strengthen supplier quality performance across projects.
• Mentor inspectors and project teams while promoting a strong culture of quality, technical rigour, and nuclear safety.

Skills and experience

Candidates must meet the following education, technical knowledge, and professional background requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in Mechanical, Materials, Manufacturing, Welding, Quality, or a related engineering discipline; a Professional Engineering licence is an asset.
• 12 to 20 years of progressive, hands-on experience in quality assurance, quality control, inspection, or manufacturing oversight within nuclear, power generation, pressure vessel, heavy industrial manufacturing, aerospace, or oil and gas environments.
• Demonstrated oversight of welding, fabrication, inspection, and testing for complex engineered components, including WPS, PQR/WPQR, welder performance qualifications, and welding inspection requirements.
• Working knowledge of applicable codes and standards such as ASME Section III, ASME Section IX, CSA N285, CSA N299, CSA W47.1, CSA W59, or equivalent nuclear and pressure-boundary fabrication standards.
• Practical familiarity with VT, PT, MT, UT, and RT nondestructive examination methods, together with ITPs, hold points, witness points, quality documentation packages, and manufacturing records.
• Proven experience leading supplier audits, surveillance programs, quality assessments, root cause analysis, CAPA management, and corrective action initiatives.
• Experience leading and developing technical teams, quality inspectors, or welding inspection personnel; CWB Level 2 or 3, AWS CWI, CGSB NDE, CQE, or equivalent certifications are strong assets.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to represent client interests in manufacturing environments; experience supporting nuclear utilities, suppliers, reactor projects, pressure-retaining components, or nuclear quality programs is highly desirable.

The team

We exist to shape communities to advance humanity. The brightest engineers, advisors and scientists from across the globe call WSP home. As a proudly Canadian Top 100 Employer for 2026, we offer a global community of brilliant minds where your next idea, mentor, or opportunity is always within reach.

• Limitless opportunities to tailor your role to match your ambition across the country or around the globe.
• Flexible work and real balance that encourage you to prioritize personal well-being.
• A supportive environment that empowers people to collaborate across disciplines, challenge the status quo, and shape a career with purpose.