Senior Component Engineer

Pay Range: $81.00hr - $86.00hr

Job Overview:

The candidate will collaborate with New Product Development (NPD) and Strategic Sourcing to manage custom cable assembly qualifications, supplier performance, and risk mitigation. Responsibilities include executing part qualification deliverables, managing engineering change orders, driving root cause analysis, and optimizing supplier manufacturing processes to ensure high quality and supply continuity.

Responsibilities:

• Work with New Product Development (NPD) to procure custom cables ensuring Design for Manufacturability (DFM) to achieve quality and cost targets.
• Support NPD with prototype builds and track material readiness at suppliers.
• Drive supplier root cause analysis for cable harness failures.
• Mitigate risks and ensure supply continuity by evaluating capacity, lead times, and quality issues.
• Develop and maintain harness standards, specifications, and design guidelines.
• Work with Strategic Sourcing to evaluate new suppliers and new supplier manufacturing sites.
• Complete project and part qualification deliverables including Supplier Process Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (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 components, 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 organizational 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 symptom identification through root cause analysis to corrective action, including thorough Corrective and Preventive Action (CAPA) documentation.
• Effectively prioritize and advance multiple concurrent projects and tasks.
• Clearly communicate project status to key stakeholders.
• Build, own, and pursue a vision for developing supplier capabilities.
• Maintain proper documentation detail for tracking actions and justifying decisions.
• Generate key metrics for the team and suppliers, and continually drive for timely achievement of those metrics.
• Drive suppliers to continually improve their business and manufacturing process performance to meet quality requirements using best practices in project management, Six Sigma, Lean, Statistical Process Control (SPC), and negotiation.
• Implement corrective and preventive actions for supplier processes by driving investigations and root cause analysis.
• Provide effective and timely supply base health information and recommendations to management using data-driven metrics.
• Prepare and deliver supplier communications as required by independently working with suppliers on scorecard creation.
• Create product supplier landscapes to determine launch readiness for new product introductions.
• Develop supplier ramp readiness plans by evaluating business risk based on forecast, supplier capacity, quality performance, and process capability.
• Engage suppliers early in the development cycle to provide manufacturability feedback on designs prior to production.
• Influence and guide Engineering in choosing suppliers by determining selection criteria for preferred suppliers and leading evaluation efforts.
• Review, analyze, and close customer complaints, manufacturing variance requests, and first article inspections using risk analyses and justifications.