Description
The Supplier engineer maintains and develops at an operational level the relation to the supplier with the purpose to create an optimal engineering collaboration between supplier and our client. Using your personal skills, you will work closely together with the supplier & the development teams to optimize the effectiveness and efficiency of the product generation process, in alignment with the project plan. The main goal of this cross-sector activity is to secure an excellent quality of parts delivered by our suppliers.
Job Description
Within the D&E project the Supplier engineer is the primary responsible to ensure parts quality from our suppliers. Using your in-depth technical knowledge, analytic thinking, political antenna and excellent people skills, you work closely with suppliers to build up an intimate knowledge of their IP and technological capabilities.
The main responsibilities are:
- Early supplier involvement in the D&E project to secure that technology expertise of the client and supplier are merged in the best way.
- Ensure that not only parts quality, however, also manufacturability and serviceability aspects are covered in the design phase.
- New product introduction (NPI) and supplier selection.
- Deliverables that secure parts quality from suppliers in the product generation process, such as:
o Acceptance of the design and/or specification
o Complete & detailed parts qualification process
o Acceptance of qualified parts
o Process flow and Process failure mode effect analysis
o First article inspection
- Define and maintain supplier interface processes, such as:
o Issue resolution
o Qualification deviation
o Configuration management
o Factory disturbances
- Contribute to supplier development to improve operational excellence by driving execution of existing agreements, improvement actions, and participation in supplier audits.