Staff Supplier Manufacturing Engineer, Machining

Intuitive; Sunnyvale (CA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Intuitive is seeking a supplier quality professional to ensure ISI-qualified suppliers meet quality, service, delivery, and cost targets. You will guide engineering in supplier selection for new products and provide DFM input to new designs while supporting both NPI and production.

You will lead improvements with suppliers, manage changes through ECOs, and drive timely CAPA closure, using tools like Six Sigma, Lean, and SPC to optimize quality, cost and capacity across multiple projects.

Qualifications

• Experience coordinating with suppliers to ensure quality, delivery and cost targets.
• Ability to drive process improvements using Six Sigma, Lean or related methods.

Responsibilities

• Work with suppliers to develop best manufacturing practices for NPI components.
• Execute cost reductions, capacity improvements, and risk mitigation with suppliers.
• Select processes and suppliers considering long-term fit and total cost of ownership.
• Manage supplier changes including process changes, production optimization, and new line validations.
• Drive changes to specifications and drawings through engineering change orders.
• Own and close supplier variances from symptom to root cause analysis and CAPA.

Skills

Supplier management

Quality improvement

Project management

Cross-functional collaboration

Job description

Job Description

Primary Function of Position:

Responsible for ensuring suppliers meet ISI requirements for quality, service, delivery, and cost. Drive suppliers to continuously improve business and manufacturing processes. Evaluate and select suppliers. Guide Engineering in choosing suppliers for new products and providing DFM input to new designs. Supports both NPI and ongoing production, monitors and works with suppliers to improve supplier performance. Executes detailed projects with suppliers to implement changes and improvements affecting quality, cost, capacity, risk, and sub-supplier management.

Roles & Responsibilities:

• Work with suppliers to develop best manufacturing practices and processes for NPI components.
• 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 ISI 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 Intuitive’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 ISI with little or no guidance.
• Prepare and deliver supplier communications as required by independently working with suppliers on scorecard creation.
• Work with suppliers and ISI 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.
• Develop and maintain harness standards, specifications, and design guidelines.