About this role
Job title: Supplier Development Engineer
About the Role Reporting to the Supplier Development Manager you as a Supplier Development Engineer will be responsible to ensure robust material quality through solid material qualification process, Drive and improve supplier performance Quality Incident, Supplier DPPM.
What You'll Do
- Work with and support Procurement’s strategy in establishing supply base that is capable to meet the requirement from various BU across entire company.
- Early involvement to support the activities that are related to supplier and material.
- Support supplier and material related changes from category management perspective.
- Identify worst performed supplier, work with the affected supplier to develop and implement “get-well” plan, until supplier improve the performance.
- Develop and build good relationship with supplier.
- Support customer PPAP
- establish robust material qualification process.
- SDE metrics (NPD Incident Rate, Critical Risk Supplier List, Supplier on-site audits, Category DPPM)
- Track metric performance.
- Work with supplier & internal cross-functional teams to drive and implement improvement actions.
- Support and work with plant SQE in ensuring consistent material quality supply to operations.
What We're Looking For
- Bachelor or university degree in Engineering.
- Minimum 5+ years experience in Supplier Quality / Supplier Development.
- Experience with ISO - IATF and familiar with 5 core tools --FMEA, APQP, PPAP, SPC, MSA.
- Knowledge on VDA 6.3 auditing.
- Ability to analyze.
- Advanced knowledge of MS Office and basic knowledge of SAP.
- Good follow up skills.
- Good communication skills both written and oral.
- Result oriented.
- Problem solving skills.
- Attention to details.
- Green belt training.
- Black belt (desired).
- Proficient English - 85% minimum (reading, writing, speaking, listening).
Nice to Have
- Black belt (desired) and Green belt training (optional).
Compensation & Benefits
- We offer a competitive salary package and a variety of benefits, including Medical Insurance, Grocery Bonus, Life Insurance, Dental Care plan as well as development opportunities like internal Lean Six Sigma Certification.