Senior Supplier Engineer

Senior Supplier Engineer

The mission of Supplier Engineering is to ensure high quality and stable delivery of purchased production components from suppliers operating under robust quality systems. Each supplier engineer is responsible for ensuring suppliers meet ISI requirements for product quality, cost, and service.

Essential job duties include:

• Lead Part Qualification activities in support of NPI programs
  • Lead Core Product Teams in defining efficient manufacturing methods for metals commodity at suppliers.
  • Develop suppliers manufacturing methods, testing and inspection prior to part qualification
• Line Support for manufacturing
  • Quickly address potential line down incidents
  • Take ownership of dispositioning non-conforming material and address systemic or significant non-conformances with formal corrective actions.
  • Drive corrective actions through use of various Root Cause tools (8D, 5 Why, etc), determining true root cause, implementing effective and lasting corrective and preventive actions.
• Lead manufacturing process selection
  • Identify the correct process for manufacturing the part, considering process quality, long term capacity and total lifecycle cost.
  • Identify where DFM is appropriate to achieve higher quality, lower costs or better supply chain capacity.
  • Educate internal customers and suppliers regarding supplier quality, process and operational capabilities, best value manufacturing methods and tooling for key supplier processes.

Required skills and experience include:

• 8+ years related experience in Manufacturing, Supplier Process Engineering, Design, or related field
• Ability to motivate suppliers and lead teams to solve difficult technical and process problems
• Knowledge of pFMEA, process validation, inspection and test techniques
• Experience using Word, Excel, as well as PLM (preferably Agile) and ERP Information Systems (preferably SAP)

Required education and training includes:

• BS degree in Engineering field or equivalent experience
• Ability to read and modify engineering drawings
• Solid understanding of ASME Y14.5 GD&T.
• Ability to follow GMP

Working conditions include:

• Ability to travel to suppliers on an as needed basis – both domestic and international between 10 and 25%.

Preferred skills and experience include:

• Experience in a medical device company
• Experience with low-volume high-mix production environments
• Familiarity with 21 CFR part 820 and ISO 13485
• Experience in auditing suppliers to these standards is preferred.
• At a minimum, candidate should understand GDP and QMS methods.
• Experience with a wide range of manufacturing processes including understanding of key input variables for quality, cost and capacity
• Desired product experience in at least two of the following categories:
• Tungsten micro cable manufacturing and crimping.
• Development of custom automation for manufacturing processes.
• Statistical process control.
• Mechanical Motion Products:
  Bearings, Gears and Screws, Motors, Breaks, Encoders and Inertial Sensors.