Responsibilities: - Improve quality, cost, delivery, and capacity metrics across the supply chain
- Create, improve, and implement supplier quality and manufacturing processes
- Review and understand supplier issues, and recommend the appropriate actions
- Work closely with receiving, receiving inspection, supplier quality engineer, and assurance in purging suspect/non-conforming material from inventory and throughout the organization
- Oversee and be accountable for supplier audits to ensure their ability to meet part performance, delivery, and reliability expectations.
- Develop, analyze, and present process metrics to encourage design for manufacturability, quality, and supply chain improvements
- Analyze and improve supplier processes for bottlenecks, yield, and rate limiters to meet throughput targets
- Manage supplier workflow and projects to ensure priorities are aligned with business needs
- Develop schedules and plans to bring up new parts and processes in the supply chain, and support supplier execution against timeline
- Lead, track, and improve supplier manufacturing process development and launch readiness for new products and design changes
- Develop, implement, and continuously improve business processes needed for receiving inspection operations, nonconforming hardware management, manufacturing and assembly, product traceability, and other critical business/production systems
- Work with leadership to develop future business models, establish road map and measures, and execute long-term strategic plan
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| Skills: | Minimum Qualifications: - B.S. Degree or higher in an engineering degree required
- Has worked with product development teams to define, scope, and prioritize design requirements to ensure operational and manufacturing success.
- Experience in hardware development and manufacturing of complex electronic assemblies
- Experience in technical management of suppliers
- Experience in implementation of DFx principles in an outsourced manufacturing environment
- Excellent Communication Skills – Ability to articulate technical problems to non-subject matter experts
- Experience with fault tree analysis and value stream or process flow mapping
- Ability to learn, grow and tackle new challenges in a fast-paced environment.
- Excellent attention to detail and task ownership, someone who demonstrates pride in all work and willingness to perform low-level tasks when needed.
- Ability to earn trust, maintain positive and professional relationships, and contribute to a culture of inclusion
- Must be a U.S. citizen or national, U.S. permanent resident (current Green Card holder), or lawfully admitted into the U.S. as a refugee or granted asylum.
Preferred Qualifications: - Master’s degree in engineering or business
- Lean Manufacturing, Six Sigma, or similar training/experience
- Experience with capacity modeling, process mapping, and fault analysis
- Experience with packaging design, manufacturing, and qualification
- Experience in tooling bring-up, machining processes, secondary finish processes, and qualification
- Experience with Pareto analysis, root cause, and corrective actions
- Hands-on experience with metallic, plastic, composite, or electromechanical manufacturing techniques, processes, and equipment
- Has managed planning and technical aspects of product builds through the full product life cycle
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