Component Engineer

Job Description

Job Title:

Component Engineer 3

Position

Description:

Protingent Staffing has an exciting contract Component Engineer 3 opportunity 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 provide DFM input to new designs.
• Supports both NPI and on‑going 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 possesses broad and deep hands‑on metal injection molding, metal machining manufacturing and/or plastic injection molding experience along with skills to select and develop suppliers.

• 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 the 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 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 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 supplier process by driving supplier’s investigations and root cause analysis.
• Provide effective and timely supply base health information and recommendation to management by creating and delivering data‑driven supply base information to any level of management with little or no guidance.
• Prepare and deliver supplier communications as required by independently working with suppliers on scorecard creation.
• Work with suppliers and the 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 development cycle to feedback 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, looks for opportunities with suppliers to eliminate recurrence.

• Minimum 3 years related experience in engineering and manufacturing of metal injection molding (MIM), machined metal or plastic injection molding parts. Metal injection molding experience is highly desirable.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills including…