Component Engineer

Component Engineer 3

Protingent Staffing has an exciting contract Component Engineer 3 opportunity with our client located in Sunnyvale, CA.

• Responsible for ensuring suppliers meet ISI requirements for quality, service, delivery, and cost.
• Drive suppliers to continuously improve business and manufacturing processes. Evaluate and select suppliers.
• Guide Engineering in choosing suppliers for new products and providing DFM input to new designs.
• Supports both NPI and ongoing production, monitors, and works with suppliers to improve supplier performance.
• Executes detailed projects with suppliers to implement changes and improvements affecting quality, cost, capacity, risk, and sub-supplier management.
• This role will focus on manufacturing electronics, including printed circuit boards (PCBs), printed circuit board assemblies (PCBAs), electronic components, sub-assemblies, and fully finished electronic systems for some of the newest products.
• The ideal candidate has experience bringing electronic devices to market, preferably medical devices; has worked directly with electronics manufacturing service (EMS) suppliers and component suppliers; and has demonstrated knowledge in a variety of electronics manufacturing technologies such as surface mount technology (SMT), automatic optical inspection (AOI), in-circuit test (ICT), functional testing (FUT), cable assemblies, etc.; as well as electronic system and PCBA design experience.

• Complete project/ part qualification deliverables, including Supplier pFMEA, Process Validations (IQ/OQ/PQ), Inspection Reports, Gage R&R, and Process Capability Analysis.
• Work with suppliers to execute cost reductions, capacity improvements, and risk mitigation.
• Select the right process and supplier for the part, considering long-term fit and total cost of ownership.
• Manage supplier changes, including manufacturing process changes, production optimization, facility changes, new equipment qualification, and new line validations.
• Drive changes to ISI requirements as necessary by initiating and managing changes to specifications and drawings through the engineering change order process.
• Own and drive to closure supplier variances from symptom through root cause analysis to corrective action, including careful CAPA documentation.
• Effectively prioritize and advance multiple concurrent projects and tasks.
• Clearly communicate project status to key stakeholders.
• Build, own, and relentlessly pursue a vision for developing suppliers.
• Understand the proper level of documentation detail for tracking of actions and justification of decisions.
• Generate key metrics for the team and suppliers, and continually drive for the timely achievement of those metrics.
• Drive suppliers to continually improve their business and manufacturing process performance to meet the requirements for supplier excellence using a collection of best practices in project management, Six Sigma, Lean, SPC and negotiation.
• Implement corrective and preventive actions for the supplier process by driving the supplier’s investigations and root cause analysis.
• Provide effective and timely supply base health information and recommendations to management by creating and delivering data-driven supply base information to any level of management at ISI with little or no guidance.
• Prepare and deliver supplier communications as required by independently working with suppliers on scorecard creation.
• Work with suppliers and ISI engineering for the new product introduction to create product supplier landscapes to determine launch readiness and report to management.
• Develop supplier ramp readiness plans by judging business risk based on forecast, supplier capacity, quality performance, and process capability.
• DFM by engaging suppliers early in the development cycle to provide feedback on manufacturability improvements in the designs prior to production.
• Influence and guide Engineering in choosing suppliers by determining selection criteria for preferred suppliers and leading the team effort to evaluate preferred suppliers.
• Review, analyze, and close customer complaints, manufacturing variance requests, and first article…