Component Engineer

Job Title

Component Engineer 3

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

• Responsible for ensuring suppliers meet our client’s 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.
• The ideal candidate has a track record of supporting new product launch, demonstrated collaboration with Contract Manufacturers, and preferred experience with multiple manufacturing methods, including various metal/plastic machining processes, treatments, and finishing processes.
• Plastic Injection Molding and Metal Injection Molding are preferred as well. The candidate also has skills in selecting and developing suppliers.

• Complete Part Qualification (PPQP) 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 our client’s 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 symptoms 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. Lead these efforts without managerial guidance at several suppliers simultaneously.
• Implement corrective and preventive actions for the supplier process by driving the supplier’s investigations and root cause analysis.
• Work with suppliers and our client’s 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 inspections by judging risk analyses and justifications.
• Evaluate corrective and preventive actions at suppliers and look for opportunities with suppliers to eliminate recurrence.

• Minimum 6 years related experience with a BS Engineering degree or 4 years’ experience with an MS in Engineering.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including presentations to executive‑level management.
• Excellent interpersonal skills and team‑building skills.
• Excellent project management skills.
• Excellent…