Senior Sourcing Engineer

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You own engineering-led supplier strategy for our most complex, highest-impact programs—architecting supply chain excellence, mentoring sourcing talent, and resolving critical manufacturing challenges that directly drive competitive advantage. As the Senior Sourcing Engineer, you bridge Engineering and Procurement at a strategic level, leveraging deep technical expertise to unlock supplier innovation, accelerate program execution, and align capabilities with our most ambitious quality, cost, delivery, and design objectives.

The goal at Meissner is to be more than simply good; it is to be extraordinary. Extraordinary performance comes from extraordinary people.

Meissner as a group is passionate about helping our clients manufacture lifesaving and life enhancing drugs, therapies, and vaccines. We develop, manufacture, supply and service advanced microfiltration products and single-use systems worldwide.

We know that when you are passionate about what you do, it’s more than just a job.

Meissner is focused on the development of the whole individual, and we have programs and tools in place to help us stay at our best mentally and physically. In alignment with our commitment to support the growth and development of the whole individual, Meissner has inaugurated a Learning and Development department to solely focus on cultivating our team. When you grow, we grow.

The Senior Sourcing Engineer drives engineering-led sourcing strategy, supplier development, and outsourced manufacturing execution. This role supports complex, high-value engineering programs by providing strategic technical leadership across supplier qualification, vendor management, manufacturability analysis, and supply chain risk mitigation. The Senior Sourcing Engineer applies deep engineering judgment to resolve critical sourcing challenges, mentor junior sourcing personnel, lead cross‑functional initiatives, and align supplier capabilities with organizational quality, cost, delivery, and innovation objectives.

This position bridges Engineering and Procurement at a strategic level, leveraging extensive technical expertise and supplier relationship management to ensure competitive advantage and program success.

• Lead sourcing strategy and supplier development initiatives across engineering‑driven products, prototypes, capex systems, fixtures, tools, and complex externally manufactured assemblies, coordinating across Engineering, Procurement, Quality, Production, and Support Products.
• Drive identification, evaluation, vetting, and qualification of new suppliers across diverse manufacturing capabilities including machining, fabrication, welding, finishing, plastics processing, and raw material supply; establish supplier capability profiles and performance benchmarks.
• Conduct comprehensive reviews of engineering drawings, CAD models, specifications, bills of material, tolerances, materials, and finishes to identify sourcing risks, manufacturability constraints, and opportunities for cost and lead‑time optimization before RFQ or manufacturing activity.
• Collaborate directly with suppliers to clarify engineering intent, evaluate manufacturability, identify capability gaps, and resolve complex manufacturing questions; apply engineering judgment to triage issues and escalate design‑critical or quality‑critical decisions appropriately.
• Prepare clear technical assessments, trade‑off analyses, and recommended solutions when supplier feedback, manufacturing constraints, material availability, or tolerance questions require engineering review; drive decisions forward in partnership with design engineers.

This is an on‑site role based out of our headquarters in Camarillo, CA.

• Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering, Manufacturing Engineering, Industrial Engineering, or a related engineering discipline.
• 7+ years of progressive experience in mechanical design, product development, manufacturing engineering, or related engineering/manufacturing environments.
• 5+ years of hands‑on technical sourcing, supplier coordination, or…