Supplier Engineer

Supplier Engineer

Our client, an American Biotechnology company, is looking for a Supplier Engineer for their Sunnyvale, CA location.

• Support Value Engineering and Quality Improvement Part Qualification efforts
• Lead Core Product Teams in defining appropriate Part Qualification requirements
• This includes defining testing and inspection requirements prior to system integration to maximize ISI factory efficiency
• Support transfer of parts between suppliers
• Complete Production Part Qualification Process deliverables:
  Supplier pFMEA, Special Process Validations, FAI, and Process Capability Analysis
• Perform product/process risk analysis and ensure mitigations are implemented and effective prior to product introduction
• Establish sustainable process capability at supplier and critical sub-tier suppliers
• Support Manufacturing Line Escalations from manufacturing teams
• 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
• Manufacturing Process Selection and Development:
• 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
• Manage change
• Drive improvements to ISI requirements as necessary by proposing and managing changes to specifications and drawings through the ECO process
• Manage the planning and implementation of supplier change management projects using the Supplier Change Request process (SCR) post Design V&V
• Provide status of the readiness (quality, capacity, delivery) of the supply chain for major production process changes
• Work cross-functionally to improve supplier engineering processes
• Supplier Selection and Evaluation:
• Support Supplier Selection
• Work with Product Design, Commodity Managers and other stakeholders to identify high capability suppliers necessary for New Products based on assessment of business need and supplier capability.
• Evaluate new supplies through informal assessments and formal assessment by supporting lead auditors in QMS evaluations
• Foster Supplier Relationships
• Support audit team in addressing findings to develop suppliers' quality and business systems in order to meet ISI's requirements
• Manage supplier relationships to effectively partner with ISI suppliers
• Component Engineer:
• Sources, selects, and qualifies components used in the company's technology.
• Investigates alternate component technologies or supplies, reducing cost and improving quality and reliability.
• Acts as technical interface between component/production suppliers and development engineers, determining new and alternate sources.
• Investigates alternate component technologies or supplies for reduced cost or improved quality and reliability, and implements changes.
• Develops guidelines/procedures on vendor selection.
• Evaluates supplier change notification and qualifies changes, as needed.
• May maintain component data management system including qualification records/results/documentation.

• Health Benefits
• Referral Program
• Excellent growth and advancement opportunities