Manager Supplier Engineering

Job Description

Primary Function of the Position

Manage a team of Supplier Engineers with a focus on introducing new products into production and sustaining products already in production for the Multiport business unit. The successful candidate will have the ability to manage a team, and interpret and solve complex issues associated with the supplier manufacturing process, quality, and business inter-relationships. This person will develop supplier quality systems and manufacturing processes to sustain suppliers and parts effectively.

Essential Job Duties

Manage a team of supplier engineers in strategic supplier selection, evaluation, development, and improvement with the goal of establishing and maintaining a high-performing, long-term, sustainable production supply chain.

• Develop and implement a robust long-term supplier strategy for the product family.
• Select and evaluate suppliers that fit the supplier strategy and influence critical partners to utilize and maximize the use of the Production supply base.
• Ensure suppliers are compliant with the Intuitive quality management system.
• Manage quality and drive the team in mitigating business risks and overcoming related challenges.
• Manage supplier relationships to partner with Intuitive and the supplier effectively.
• Help the team in completing the Production Part Qualification deliverables: pFMEA, Special Process Validations, FAI, and Process Capability Investigation
• Help transfer of parts and suppliers throughout the product development life cycle
• Manage the planning and implementation of supplier change management projects using the Supplier Change Request process (SCR).
• Develop and use measurement techniques for supplier part quality, capability, cost, capacity, and delivery by creating metrics to establish if an action is required.
• Identify and investigate opportunities for cost reduction and/or quality improvement by collecting opportunities and creating tactics to present opportunities, perform research, and provide data-driven plans to management.
• Drive the supply base to continually improve their business and manufacturing process performance to meet Intuitive's requirements for supplier excellence using a collection of best practices in project management, Six Sigma, Lean, SPC, and negotiation.
• Review, examine, and close non-conformances, and first article inspections by judging risk analyses and justifications, establishing corrective and preventive actions at suppliers (SCAR), and looking for opportunities with suppliers to eliminate recurrence.
• Led the team in solving complex process issues in the manufacture of components and assemblies.
• Facilitate, influence, and work cross-functionally to improve supplier engineering processes.