Senior Supplier Development Engineer
Devens, MA
Corporate Operations – Supply Chain /
Full-time /
Hybrid
The Senior Supplier Development Engineer role is to partner with different business units, such as design engineering, quality and procurement, to best understand which suppliers are struggling to achieve rate, hit certain quality requirements and provide consistent product.
This team member will:
- Physically be on-site at vendors for long periods of time
- Be a Change Agent - identifying gaps in processes, articulating what needs to be done to close those gaps and holding vendors accountable with concrete timelines
- Ability to inspect parts using different measurement tools and interpret inspection reports
- Design, develop required process controls and quality plans
- Facilitate the creation and execution of PFMEA processes and applicable elements of APQP
- Support ISO 9001:2015 implementation
- Support creation of manufacturing instructions to document quality critical characteristics
- Develop in-process inspection and test procedures
- Process capability studies and Measurement Systems Analysis
- Coach and collaborate with a cross-functional team of manufacturing, design, and operations engineers to establish a high-quality manufacturing line
- Drive cost reduction projects including planning, coordinating with stakeholders, estimating completion, and project updates
- Author contract documents with Legal. Manage contracts ensuring performance of the supplier to contract obligations. Understand interrelationships between contracts and terms while applying creativity and sound business reasoning to interpret application of contract to business needs
- Establish preferred suppliers by category. Create and implement related management programs to develop, continuously improve, manage the performance of, and monitor KPIs of the supply base
- Lead and mentor team members
- Skillfully balance the price, delivery, quality, service, and value tradeoffs and rationalize the supply base
- Adhere to all supply chain policies, procedures, guidelines and instructions including those regarding the procurement of materials, intellectual property, and export compliance
- Negotiate internally and externally at high levels or with persons of influence frequently
- Travel or work required nights/weekends/on-call minimum 25%
The ideal candidate will have most, if not all, of these requirements:
- Bachelor’s Degree
- 7+ of years experience in Supply Chain
- Perform advanced technical activities such as Supplier Assessments & Audits, including Quality Management System (e.g., ISO 9001, AS 9100, IATF 16949)
- Perform advanced technical activities such as Product (e.g., Machining) and Special Process (e.g., Plating, Heat treat, Welding)
- Utilize specialized quality tools such PPAP (PFMEA, Control Plan, MSA) capacity analysis and Lean Six Sigma initiatives
- Specific knowledge regarding small machine shop manufacturing
- Magnet manufacturing
- Ability to design, establish and implement supplier quality improvement processes and procedures.
- Implementation and management of ERP or other procurement tools
- Ability to teach and educate others with little background on the subject
- Creative negotiating skills
- Experience with MS Office
- Exceptional communications skills
- Strong collaboration and relationship building skills
- Ability to prioritize and execute tasks
- Works with Integrity
- Strong Customer Service skills
- Remarkable problem-solving skills
- Works well under pressure
- Possesses excellent judgment
Additional preferred experience and/or qualifications:
- Masters Degree is a plus
- Six Sigma Certification (Yellow, Green, or Black)
- Experience managing multiple levels of staff
- Experience in a start-up or high growth environment
- Experience in manufacturing environment
- Experience in Automotive or AerospacePerform activities such as typing, standing, or sitting for extended periods of time
