Supplier Engineer

Job Description

Job Description

Primary Function of Position:

Responsible for ensuring suppliers meet ISI requirements for cost, quality, delivery and service. Drive suppliers to continuously improve business and manufacturing processes. Evaluate and collaborate on supplier selection with cross functional partners. Supports sustaining production, monitors and engages with suppliers to improve supplier performance.

Roles & Responsibilities:

• Part qualification including pFMEAs, FAIRS, Cpk, Control Plans

• Key point of contact for Ion BU to communicate Regulated Material requirements to suppliers, track and receive regulated materials declarations from suppliers, and verify the compliance status has been approved prior to qualifying the part for production.

• Partner with Regulatory and Environmental Management teams to streamline processes with use of Lean, Six Sigma, and Process mapping and develop training for the supplier engineering team.

• Obtain and monitor supplier hardware certifications and renewal dates to ensure part compliance across regions worldwide.

• Support global expansion teams with managing and completing product labeling qualifications.

• Support Environmental Management initiatives by obtaining part material information from suppliers and executing projects when needed to modify or change part to meet the new environmental regulations.

• Supplier Corrective Action Request initiation, execution, and closure

• Partner with global supply chain to optimize the supply base

• Drive suppliers to continually improve their business and manufacturing process performance to meet Intuitive Surgical’s requirements for supplier excellence including ship to stock programs using a collection of best practices in project management, Six Sigma, Lean, SPC and negotiation

• Utilize data-driven decisions to evaluate supplier part cost, delivery, quality, capacity and capability. Apply metrics to measure real improvement and judge required intervention or change at the supplier or in a commodity.

• Drive corrective actions for supplier process by driving suppliers to true root cause analysis and corrective and Preventive actions.

• Provide effective and timely supply base health information to management

• Prepare and deliver supplier communications as required by working with suppliers on scorecard creation of QBRs, Supplier Summits, etc.

• Deliver the following Quality deliverables: pFMEA, Special Process Validations, FAI, and Cpk by leading suppliers through the pFMEA development, judging process validation requirements and signing-off on protocols as ISI rep, judging process capability with supplier as well as judging FAI suitability.

• Develop the supplier business continuity / disaster recovery plans by managing suppliers to create plans, judge plans for risks and negotiate with suppliers to reduce risks. Identify and investigate opportunities for cost reduction and/or quality improvement by judging opportunities and creating strategies to seize those opportunities, completes research and provides data-driven plans to management.

• 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.