Sr Supplier Engineer, Electronics

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Lead Supplier Engineer on a design project for a commodity. Responsible to influence the design architecture, component specifications, and component manufacturing process based on supplier capabilities. Responsible for DFM, cost modeling, commodity knowledge, support supplier selection and BOM cost targets. Responsible for component qualification and launch and ensure suppliers meet quality and cost standards. Post launch, responsible to drive suppliers to continuously improve business and manufacturing processes.

Ideal candidate will be experienced in new product launches and supplier collaboration. Strong skills in supplier selection and development.

• Partner with design engineering to understand the design intent and how it translates to component design. Ensure critical design outputs are clearly documented and measurable on the component specification.
• Provide technical expertise in electrical and electronic components to support supplier development and troubleshooting. Select the right process and supplier for the part, considering long-term fit and total cost of ownership.
• Collaborate with Quality Engineering and Design Engineering to support dFMEA reviews and confirm the feasibility of various design risk mitigations.
• Work with design engineering to develop test methods and acceptance criteria for the supplied part or sub-assembly. Document functional test methods used to verify the product and translate those tests to component level testing.
• Create strategies to effectively optimize the supply base to reduce the risk of complex sub-tiers suppliers and long lead times. Determine risk mitigations for high severity parts, sole suppliers or proprietary materials.
• Complete Design Transfer and component qualification:
  Supplier pFMEA, Special Process Validations, FAI, correlation and Cpk by leading, training and mentoring suppliers through the process.
• 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 Engineering team to select the component technology that will meet requirements for short- and long-term needs from prototype to production, but also meet business objectives for cost and utilizing preferred suppliers.
• Review, analyze and close customer complaints, manufacturing variance requests, and first article inspections by judging risk analyses and justifications, determining corrective and preventive actions at suppliers, looks for opportunities with suppliers to eliminate recurrence.
• Drive corrective actions for supplier process by driving suppliers to true root cause analysis and corrective and Preventive actions.
• Develop and influence using metrics for supplier part cost, delivery, quality, capacity and capability by creating metrics to measure real improvement and judge required intervention or change at the supplier or in a commodity.

• Proven ability to work alongside design engineer and assess supplier capability during the design iteration process
• Demonstrable knowledge in evaluating and challenging supplier technical, quality, and business capabilities
• Demonstrable knowledge of a wide range of manufacturing processes including understanding of key…