Senior Component Engineer - Cable & Supplier Excellence

eTeam; Sunnyvale (CA); On-site; USD 110,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

eTeam in Sunnyvale, CA is seeking a Component Engineer 3 to join our hardware team. You will collaborate with NPD to procure custom cables, ensure manufacturability, and drive supplier performance across multiple projects.

You will lead supplier qualifications, process validations, and cost-reduction initiatives while coordinating with sourcing and engineering to minimize risk and ensure on-time delivery. This contract role spans 12 months with close collaboration across disciplines.

Responsibilities

• Work with NPD to procure custom cables ensuring DFM to achieve quality and cost targets
• Support NPD with proto builds and track material readiness at Supplier
• Drive supplier rootcause 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/ part qualification 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 client 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 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 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 timely achievement of those metrics.
• Drive suppliers to continually improve their business and manufacturing process performance to meet Client's 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 supplier process by driving supplier's investigations and root cause analysis.
• Provide effective and timely supply base health information and recommendation to management by creating and delivering data-driven supply base information to any level of management at client with little or no guidance.
• Prepare and deliver supplier communications as required by independently working with suppliers on scorecard creation.
• Work with suppliers and client 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 development cycle to feedback 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.

Job description

eTeam in Sunnyvale, CA is seeking a Component Engineer 3 to join our hardware team. You will collaborate with NPD to procure custom cables, ensure manufacturability, and drive supplier performance across multiple projects.

You will lead supplier qualifications, process validations, and cost-reduction initiatives while coordinating with sourcing and engineering to minimize risk and ensure on-time delivery. This contract role spans 12 months with close collaboration across disciplines.