Supply Chain Engineer (SCE)

Intel Corporation; Ireland; Hybrid; EUR 71,000 - 134,000; Full time

Job summary

Intel Corporation in Leixlip, Ireland seeks a Supply Chain Engineer to improve factory manufacturing availability and coordinate with suppliers on labor and performance issues. The role requires steering 8D investigations, driving continuous improvement, and mentoring junior SCEs.

Responsibilities include improving cost structures, ensuring KPI achievement, and aligning with long-term supply chain roadmaps. The role operates within a hybrid model and offers a broad compensation package.

Qualifications

• Degree in Engineering, Business, or Supply Chain per NFQ Level 8/Honors.
• +2 years in Supplier management/contract management or Supply Chain Management.
• +2 years engineering and team management experience.

Responsibilities

• Drive supplier quality, safety, and MQI closure performance.
• Chair and lead 8D investigations with suppliers.
• Improve manufacturing availability in collaboration with factory modules.
• Lead/coach junior SCEs and drive VF-wide improvements.
• Define KPIs, monitor performance, and root-cause supply chain issues.
• Lead supplier selections and risk mitigation for new business.

Skills

Stakeholder mgmt

People skills

Data analysis

Forecasting

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Eng/Bus/SC

Tools

MS Office

Job description

Job Details: Job Description

Supply Chain Engineer is responsible for driving improvement to factory manufacturing availability and to liaise with the factory on supplier labour issues (e.g. local FSE labour, supplier performance, long tool down recovery) for F25.

Key Responsibilities

• Manage and drive quality issues related to supplier safety, quality, and site MQI closure performance.
• Scope may include chairing and leading 8D work with suppliers and modules to close prevention plans.
• Drive continuous improvement and quality improvement with supplier in partnership with partner FCS teams.
• Responsible for driving manufacturing availability (MA) performance across limiting toolsets within factory in partnership with modules.
• Includes problem definitions, roadmap building, and engagement/escalation with suppliers to resolve limiting module issues.
• Responsible to work with factory modules and factory leadership to improve cost structures, drive performance to outcome based contracts, and identify cost savings contracting opportunities across the functional areas within the local factory.
• As a senior SCE, the candidate is expected to lead/coach and mentor less experienced SCEs.
• They will be expected to drive VF wide improvements and standardization.

Additional Responsibilities

• Supports management/senior leadership to incorporate process and quality improvements in Intel's supply chain and logistics strategy.
• Defines material inspection methodology, conducts studies related to cost control, process control, and production yield, and implements plans and programs to optimize supply chain.
• Supports product long range plan development by defining next generation methodology capabilities to support Intel's supply chain roadmap.
• Explores and benchmarks emerging technology in the industry.
• Contributes to Intel's future technology definition and requirements.
• Highlights gaps between roadmap strategy, manufacturing capability, and market demands and recommends solutions to addresses those gaps.
• Tracks supply demand trends, conducts root cause analysis to find opportunities for process and quality improvements, and collaborates with supply chain leads to implement solutions.
• Leads supplier selections for new business in partnership with commodity managers and technical/quality partners and drives product and purchase specification content to ensure commodity performance compliance.
• Performs alternate sourcing risk mitigation for single sourced commodities.
• Establishes control standards, determines KPIs, monitors performance against targets, and drives root cause analysis for supply chain issues to arrive at solutions.
• Drives supplier process window validation activities on critical process modules through all stages of development.
• Drives supplier improvements on quality, reliability, yield, and cost.
• Maintains quality standards and systems, creating relevant specifications to minimize variability and subjectivity to align with operational capability requirements.
• Leads quality excursion management and drives failure mode analysis with suppliers.

Qualifications

• Level 8 / Honors Bachelors degree as per the NFQ in an approved Engineering, Business, or Supply Chain discipline.
• Minimum +2 years' experience in Supplier management\contract management or Supply Chain Management.
• Minimum +2 years Engineering and team management experience required.

Preferred Qualifications

• Strong stakeholder management and people skills - internal and external -at all levels .
• Level 9 / MBA qualification, and semiconductor fab experience is preferred.
• Strong data analysis skills and, including forecasting, budget management.
• Strong demonstrated needed on planning and organization skills.
• Proven scientific problem solving and project management experience.
• High systems proficiency including all MS applications.

Job Information

Job Type: Experienced Hire

Shift: Shift 1 (Ireland)

Primary Location: Ireland, Leixlip

Additional Locations:

Posting Statement: All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, religious creed, sex, national origin, ancestry, age, physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, military and veteran status, marital status, pregnancy, gender, gender expression, gender identity, sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by local law, regulation, or ordinance.

Position of Trust N/A

EU Salary We offer a total compensation package that ranks among the best in the industry.

Annual Salary Range for this job which could be performed in Ireland is: €71,300.00 - €133,900.00

Work Model for this Role This role will be eligible for our hybrid work model which allows employees to split their time between working on-site at their assigned Intel site and off-site.

Job posting details (such as work model, location or time type) are subject to change.

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