Principal Supply Chain Product Engineer

Job Description

The Principal Supply Chain Product Engineer is a recognized technical leader responsible for ensuring that products are designed, validated, and manufactured with robust, scalable, and cost-effective test solutions. This role serves as a key advisor across Product Engineering, Test Engineering and New Product Introduction (NPI) through mass production activities within Manufacturing, ensuring seamless transition from design to high-volume production. The role partners closely with design, quality, and external partners to deliver high-quality, reliable products while optimizing test coverage, yield, and cost.

The Principal Supply Chain Product Engineer is a recognized technical leader responsible for ensuring that products are designed, validated, and manufactured with robust, scalable, and cost-effective test solutions. This role serves as a key advisor across Product Engineering, Test Engineering and New Product Introduction (NPI) through mass production activities within Manufacturing, ensuring seamless transition from design to high-volume production. The role partners closely with design, quality, and external partners to deliver high-quality, reliable products while optimizing test coverage, yield, and cost.

• Define and drive enterprise-level product and test strategies aligned with business objectives, customer requirements, and operational goals.
• Lead NPI readiness and manufacturing ramp strategies to ensure successful product launches.
• Partner with executive leadership to identify test risks and opportunities that impact business performance.

• Lead the development and deployment of manufacturing test strategies, including functional, parametric, environmental, and reliability testing.
• Lead product engineering activities supporting manufacturing, including generating test requirement documents, engineering change implementation, driving root cause analysis and resolution of product related issues in production and field.
• Optimize test coverage, cycle time, and cost while maintaining product quality and compliance.
• Oversee test equipment design, validation, calibration, and lifecycle management.
• Implement advanced test technologies, automation, and data analytics to improve efficiency and insight.
• Establish KPIs to test performance monitoring, efficiency and manufacturing readiness.

• Partner with design to ensure smooth product transfers from development to manufacturing.
• Establish robust validation processes and pilot builds.
• Drive readiness reviews, risk assessments, and launch performance tracking.

• Lead test initiatives across manufacturing operations to improve process capability, yield, reliability, and operational efficiency.
• Identify and eliminate production inefficiencies and test bottlenecks
• Establish test requirements and validation strategies for new manufacturing processes and technologies.
• Provide technical leadership during critical manufacturing escalations and quality containment events.

• Collaborate with Quality, Supply Chain, Procurement, and Operations to ensure alignment on product requirements and execution.
• Support supplier selection and qualification for test equipment and capabilities.
• Act as a key liaison between engineering and manufacturing teams globally.

• Lead investigation and resolution of high-impact quality issues affecting manufacturing, suppliers, customers, or field performance.
• Utilize advanced statistical analysis, structured problem-solving methodologies, and risk assessment techniques to identify root causes and drive sustainable corrective actions.
• Establish escalation frameworks and risk mitigation strategies for critical quality events.

• Serve as a mentor and coach for Product Engineers and cross-functional technical teams.
• Lead development of test engineering standards, methodologies, and training programs.
• Influence organizational culture through technical leadership and knowledge sharing.

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