Job Title: Component Engineer 4
Position Description: Protingent Staffing has an exciting contract Component Engineer 4 with our client located in Sunnyvale, CA.
Job Description:
- Responsible for ensuring suppliers meet our client's requirements for quality, service, delivery, and cost. Drive suppliers to continuously improve business and manufacturing processes.
- Evaluate and select suppliers.
- Guide Engineering in choosing suppliers for new products and providing DFM input to new designs.
- Supports both NPI and ongoing production, monitors and works with suppliers to improve supplier performance.
- Executes detailed projects with suppliers to implement changes and improvements affecting quality, cost, capacity, risk, and sub-supplier management.
- The ideal Candidate has a track record of supporting new products launch, demonstrated collaboration with Contract Manufacturers, and preferred experience with multiple manufacturing methods, including various metal/plastics machining processes, treatments, and finishing processes. Plastic Injection Molding and Metal Injection Molding are preferred as well.
- The candidate also has skills in selecting and developing suppliers.
Job Responsibilities:- Complete Part Qualification (PPQP) deliverables, including Supplier pFMEA, Process Validations (IQ/OQ/PQ), Inspection Reports, Gage R&R, and Process Capability Analysis
- Work with suppliers to execute cost reductions, capacity improvements, and risk mitigation.
- Select the right process and supplier for the part, considering long-term fit and total cost of ownership.
- Manage supplier changes, including manufacturing process changes, production optimization, facility changes, new equipment qualification, and new line validations.
- Drive changes to our client's requirements as necessary by initiating and managing changes to specifications and drawings through the engineering change order process.
- Own and drive to closure supplier variances from symptoms through root cause analysis to corrective action, including careful CAPA documentation.
- Effectively prioritize and advance multiple concurrent projects and tasks
- Clearly communicate project status to key stakeholders
- Build, own, and relentlessly pursue a vision for developing suppliers.
- Understand the proper level of documentation detail for tracking of actions and justification of decisions.
- Generate key metrics for the team and suppliers and continually drive for the timely achievement of those metrics.
- Drive suppliers to continually improve their business and manufacturing process performance to meet the requirements for supplier excellence using a collection of best practices in project management, Six Sigma, Lean, SPC, and negotiation. Lead these efforts without managerial guidance at several suppliers simultaneously.
- Implement corrective and preventive actions for the supplier process by driving the supplier’s investigations and root cause analysis.
- Work with suppliers and our client's engineering for the new product introduction to:
- Create product supplier landscapes to determine launch readiness and report to management.
- Develop supplier ramp readiness plans by judging business risk based on forecast, supplier capacity, quality performance, and process capability.
- DFM by engaging suppliers early in the development cycle to provide feedback on manufacturability improvements in the designs prior to production.
- Influence and guide Engineering in choosing suppliers by determining selection criteria for preferred suppliers and leading the team effort to evaluate preferred suppliers.
- Review, analyze, and close customer complaints, manufacturing variance requests, and first-article inspections by judging risk analyses and justifications.
- Evaluate corrective and preventive actions at suppliers and look for opportunities with suppliers to eliminate recurrence.
Job Qualifications:- Minimum 8 years related experience with a BS Engineering degree or 6 years’ experience with an MS in Engineering
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including presentations to executive-level management.
- Excellent Interpersonal skills and team-building skills.
- Excellent Project Management skills.
- Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills along with good judgment.
- Demonstrable knowledge in evaluating and challenging supplier technical, quality, and business capabilities.
- Demonstrable knowledge of a wide range of manufacturing processes, including understanding of key input variables for quality, cost, and capacity (Machining, Plastic Injection Molding, Metal Injection Molding, and/or knowledge in Contract Manufacturing)
- Proven ability to lead teams to solve difficult technical and process problems
- Proven ability in New Product Introduction and rapid scaling in production
- Proficient in pFMEA, process validation, root cause investigation, inspection, and test techniques
- Knowledge of document management systems and ERP Systems, preferably Agile and SAP
- Knowledge of 21 CFR part 820 and ISO 13485 preferred
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including presentations to executives
- Experience in a high-volume medical device company is a plus
- Ability to travel to suppliers on an as-needed basis – domestic and international (approx. 25%)
Job Details:- Job Type: Contract
- Pay Range: $80 - $88 an hour.
- Location: Sunnyvale, CA (Onsite).
Benefits Package: Protingent offers competitive salaries, insurance plan options (HDHP plan or POS plan), education/certification reimbursement, pre-tax commuter benefits, Paid Time Off (PTO), and an administered 401k plan.
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