Component Engineer 4

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Pay Range: $70.00hr - $93.50hr

• 5+ years of experience.
• Understanding of manufacturing processes for mechanical, electrical, or electromechanical components.
• Ability to identify process risks, failure modes, and opportunities for improvement.
• Knowledge of material traceability requirements, including tracing supplier lots through inspection and production.
• Expertise in mechanical, electrical, or electromechanical components, assemblies, and manufacturing processes.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills.

• Support new product introduction (NPI) programs by working with suppliers and cross-functional teams to ensure material readiness, quality, and manufacturability.
• Support early-stage material procurement activities, including supplier engagement, technical readiness assessments, and execution of prototype and development builds.
• Communicate technical requirements, specifications, drawings, quality expectations, and inspection requirements to suppliers.
• Review and disposition non-conforming materials through variance requests (VRs), utilizing technical judgment and risk-based decision making.
• Review first article inspection reports (FAIRs), inspection methods, measurement systems, fixtures, and tooling to ensure compliance with requirements.
• Investigate supplier quality and manufacturing issues, perform root cause analysis, and drive supplier corrective action requests (SCARs) to effective closure.
• Support supplier qualification, process validation, and production readiness activities.
• Partner with suppliers to improve process capability, quality, manufacturability, and inspection effectiveness.
• Collaborate with design engineering, manufacturing engineering, quality engineering, operations, and supply chain to resolve technical issues and support product launches.
• Communicate technical issues, risks, and recommendations effectively to suppliers and internal stakeholders.

• New product introduction (NPI).
• Supplier engagement.
• Technical readiness assessment.
• Variance requests (VRs).
• First article inspection reports (FAIRs).
• Root cause analysis.
• Supplier corrective action requests (SCARs).
• Material traceability.
• Process validation.
• Mechanical engineering.
• Electrical engineering.
• Electromechanical components.