Senior Supplier Readiness & NPI Engineer

Moog; Torrance, Northern (CA, KY); Hybrid; USD 100,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Moog is seeking a Senior Supplier Development Engineer in Torrance, CA, to drive supplier maturity, readiness, and risk reduction. The role emphasizes ownership of supplier-development plans and cross-functional collaboration with stakeholders across sourcing, manufacturing, and quality.

Ideal candidates have a engineering degree with 7+ years in manufacturing engineering or supply chain, strong project management, and travel 20–35%.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in engineering (manufacturing, supply chain, or related technical discipline, or equivalent experience).
• 7+ years of manufacturing engineering or supply chain experience.
• Experience with supplier development, APQP, industrialization, manufacturing readiness, or operations improvement.
• Ability to assess process maturity, capability evidence, and supplier execution risk.
• Strong project-management discipline with clear action tracking and follow-up.
• Clear communication with suppliers and internal stakeholders on risk, expectations, and closure plans.
• 20% to 35% travel, depending on supplier-development and readiness-assessment demand.

Responsibilities

• Improve supplier capability, capacity, readiness, and execution before issues become chronic escapes by leading structured supplier-development plans and readiness assessments, including supply-chain implementation for new product introduction and work transfer.
• Lead supplier capability, capacity, readiness, and risk assessments for assigned suppliers or programs.
• Build and track supplier development plans with specific owners, milestones, and closure evidence.
• Support supplier onboarding, segmentation, capability assessment, and readiness review activities.
• Coordinate program, sourcing, manufacturing, and quality inputs when supplier maturity is below expectation.
• Drive clear issue definition and action ownership so development work does not fragment across teams.
• Focuses on the following commodities: Electro-Mechanical Assemblies, Electronics, Supplier Owned IPs, and Some machining knowledge required.
• NPI Implementation in Supply Chain Drive supplier-development plans for NPI, new supplier onboarding, and work transfers with clear readiness gates, owners, and recovery milestones.
• Coordinate capacity, capability, industrialization, and business-readiness actions needed to launch new parts into the supply base without fragmented ownership.
• Maintain visibility to open NPI supplier risks and ensure they are integrated into the dashboard and weekly operating cadence.
• Measurable KPIs Supplier development plan milestones closed by due date >= 90%. Capability / readiness assessments completed to plan >= 95%. Assigned high-risk supplier actions moved from open to verified closure within target >= 90%. APQP / launch-readiness deliverables completed on time for owned scope >= 95%. Unowned supplier-development actions on assigned portfolio maintained at zero.

Skills

Project management

Supplier communication

Risk assessment

Cross-functional collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree in engineering

Job description

Moog is seeking a Senior Supplier Development Engineer in Torrance, CA, to drive supplier maturity, readiness, and risk reduction. The role emphasizes ownership of supplier-development plans and cross-functional collaboration with stakeholders across sourcing, manufacturing, and quality.

Ideal candidates have a engineering degree with 7+ years in manufacturing engineering or supply chain, strong project management, and travel 20–35%.