Senior Supply Line Engineer — Precision Machining & Molding

LitePoint; North Reading (MA); On-site; USD 121,000 - 193,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Discretionary bonus

Health and wellbeing benefits

Retirement savings plans

Tuition assistance

Job summary

Teradyne is seeking a Supply Line Engineer to manage supplier engineering for precision mechanical parts across the product lifecycle. You will partner with design to influence architecture, material selection, and supplier choices, and develop robust technical requirements and qualification criteria.

You will assess suppliers, perform capability studies, and drive process controls, PFMEA, and quality improvements while collaborating with design, operations, and supplier teams globally.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical, Manufacturing, Industrial, Materials, or a related engineering discipline.
• 10 to 15 years of experience in supplier engineering, product engineering, process development, quality engineering, or mechanical component manufacturing.
• Strong understanding of mechanical design intent, geometric tolerancing, material selection, manufacturing variation, measurement methods, and process controls.
• Experience with precision machining, plastics machining, injection molding, casting, tooling, fixtures, secondary operations, and component finishing processes.
• Experience with supplier qualification, design for manufacturability, PFMEA, control plans, process capability, statistical process control, Gage R&R, and root cause and corrective action.
• Ability to translate design intent into supplier requirements, measurable controls, and qualification plans while managing multiple new product introduction and lifecycle priorities.
• Strong communication and influencing skills across engineering, operations, commodity management, supplier quality, and external suppliers.
• Ability to travel up to 20% domestically and internationally.

Responsibilities

• Partner early with design engineering to influence architecture, material selection, manufacturing methods, critical specifications, and supplier selection.
• Develop clear, manufacturable technical requirements, including key characteristics, drawings, inspection methods, test expectations, and qualification criteria.
• Assess and qualify suppliers through design-for-manufacturability reviews, supplier assessments, process capability studies, measurement system analysis, pilot builds, audits, and production-readiness reviews.
• Develop suppliers for precision machining, plastics machining, injection molding, casting, finishing, and complex mechanical assemblies, with effective controls for tooling, inspection, measurement, PFMEA, control plans, and statistical process control.
• Collaborate across design, operations, supplier quality, commodity management, and supplier teams to identify risk, resolve quality issues, implement corrective actions, and improve yield, reliability, and process maturity.
• Support lifecycle readiness through approved vendor alignment, supplier change control, product change and end-of-life reviews, alternate sourcing, and continuity-of-supply planning.

Skills

Supplier engineering

Process development

Quality engineering

Communication

Influencing skills

Travel readiness

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical, Manufacturing, Industrial, Materials, or related engineering

Tools

GD&T

CMM

Six Sigma tools

Job description

Teradyne is seeking a Supply Line Engineer to manage supplier engineering for precision mechanical parts across the product lifecycle. You will partner with design to influence architecture, material selection, and supplier choices, and develop robust technical requirements and qualification criteria.

You will assess suppliers, perform capability studies, and drive process controls, PFMEA, and quality improvements while collaborating with design, operations, and supplier teams globally.