Description
Supplier Engineer - Industrial Engineering
A challenging opportunity for Physicists, Development Engineers or Production Engineers to work closely with suppliers in the co-design high-end parts assembled modules and entire sub-systems.
Sector:
The goal of Industrial Engineering is to industrialize products while development is ongoing, embedding industrial performance aspects (Cycle time, Manufacturability, Reliability, Cost) early in the design phase.
This means thinking about the manufacturing environment (Factory and Suppliers), to the use and maintenance at the customer site, taken into account lessons learned from the past.
If we focus on product industrialization early, we can proactively prevent most of the manufacturing and quality problems in our factory and at the suppliers and even improve time to market.
Job Description
As a Supplier Engineer in this sector you are the vital link for optimum engineering collaboration between development teams and its supplier base. Using your in-depth technical knowledge, analytic thinking and excellent people skills, you'll work closely with suppliers to build up an intimate knowledge of their IP and technological capabilities. By feeding that knowledge back into our development programs, you'll enable our customer to make the right sourcing decisions.
In brief:
* Early collaboration with suppliers in Development & Engineering projects to secure technology expertise of our customer and supplier are merged in the best way.
* New product introduction (NPI) and supplier selection.
* Execution of NPI deliverables like: manufacturing flows, failure mode effect analysis, test tools and product qualification, first article inspection & evaluation reports, supplier output control.
* Implementing supplier improvement actions in response to quality complaints and nonconforming products/processes
As a Supplier Engineer you report to the Technical Supplier Manager and interface with suppliers, development project leaders and customer support/manufacturing engineers and procurement account managers.
Education
Bachelor or Masters Degree in a technical field (for example: Mechanics/Electronics/Physics)
Experience
A minimum of 5 years experience in a high-tech environment in the field of electromechanical/physics development & engineering or production engineering.
Personal Skills
- Good interpersonal skills - social interaction, listening, discussion and communication
- The drive, energy and initiative to achieve continuous improvement
- Excellent negotiating and teambuilding skills
- Ability to influence without power Fluency in English (spoken and written)
- Strong negotiation skills for interacting with other sectors and suppliers
- Team player, still able to act independent
- Result driven, planning and prioritizing