Sr Supplier Engineer, NPI

Sr Supplier Engineer, NPI

Responsible for ensuring suppliers meet ISI requirements for quality, service, delivery, and cost while driving continuous improvement in manufacturing and business processes. Evaluate and select suppliers, guide Engineering in sourcing decisions, and provide DFM input to support NPI. Lead supplier engagements across quality, cost, capacity, and risk, including hands-on debugging of complex assemblies to true root cause within supplier processes. Ensure alignment with applicable regulatory and electronic compliance requirements throughout design and manufacturing.

Essential job duties include debugging complex supplier-related issues, applying regulatory and electronic compliance requirements, completing part and process qualification deliverables, driving cost reduction, capacity improvement, and risk mitigation initiatives with suppliers, selecting appropriate manufacturing processes and suppliers based on long-term fit and total cost of ownership, managing supplier changes, initiating and managing engineering changes, owning and driving supplier variances, effectively prioritizing and managing multiple concurrent projects, communicating project status clearly to cross-functional stakeholders, building and driving supplier development strategies, ensuring appropriate documentation to support decisions, actions, and traceability, developing and tracking key supplier and team metrics, leading supplier performance improvement using Lean, Six Sigma, SPC, and structured problem-solving methods, driving supplier investigations and implementing corrective and preventive actions, providing data-driven insights on supply base health and risks to management, developing and delivering supplier communications, including performance scorecards, partnering with Design Engineering and suppliers to support NPI, reviewing and dispositioning customer complaints, manufacturing variances, and first article inspections using risk-based judgment, evaluating effectiveness of supplier corrective actions and identifying opportunities for systemic improvement, and performing other duties as required.

Required skills and experience include minimum 5+ years of experience in engineering and manufacturing of electro-mechanical assemblies, PCBAs, cable harnesses, or metal components, excellent written and verbal communication skills, strong interpersonal and team collaboration skills, proven track record of implementing Lean, Six Sigma, and SPC initiatives at suppliers, strong project management skills, excellent analytical problem-solving skills, demonstrated ability to evaluate and challenge supplier technical, quality, and business capabilities, broad knowledge of manufacturing processes, working knowledge of applicable regulations and standards, proficiency with standard business and engineering tools, proven ability to influence and drive supplier performance, and ability to read and interpret detailed mechanical drawings.

Required education and training include BS in Engineering or equivalent experience; advanced degree preferred, previous experience in engineering within consumer electronics, medical devices, or other electro-mechanical commercial products, and strong understanding of manufacturing processes and engineering fundamentals.