Senior Supplier Engineer

Primary Function of the Position

The mission of Supplier Engineering is to ensure high quality and stable delivery of purchased production components from suppliers operating under robust quality systems. Each supplier engineer is responsible for ensuring suppliers meet ISI requirements for product quality, cost, and service.

Essential Job Duties

• Lead Part Qualification activities in support of Supply Chain Engineering programs
  • Lead Core Product Teams in defining efficient manufacturing methods for metals commodity at suppliers.
  • Develop suppliers manufacturing methods, testing and inspection prior to part qualification
• Line Support for manufacturing
  • Asses and prioritize component issues.
  • Take ownership of dispositioning non-conforming material and address systemic or significant non-conformances with formal corrective actions.
  • Drive corrective actions through use of various Root Cause tools (8D, 5 Why, etc), determining true root cause, implementing effective and lasting corrective and preventive actions.
• Lead manufacturing process selection
  • Identify the correct process for manufacturing the part, considering process quality, long term capacity and total lifecycle cost.
  • Identify where DFM is appropriate to achieve higher quality, lower costs or better supply chain capacity.
  • Educate internal customers and suppliers regarding supplier quality, process and operational capabilities, best value manufacturing methods and tooling for key supplier processes.