Director Supplier Engineering
Director Supplier Engineering
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Job Description
Primary Function of the Position:
- Build trust with production teams and operations leadership at the sustaining plant level act as their voice with GSC & SE
- Drive component quality capacity root cause and corrective action for sustaining parts
- Interface daily with Operations for escalations to the other SE functions and Manufacturing.
- Receive new product transfers from NPI
The value to the business is smooth scale-up yield improvement and lower cost of quality minimizing plant interruption and ensuring product availability at all times.
Essential Job Duties:
Lead a team of supplier engineers who deliver value to the business through the following activities.
- Supply-chain Strategy: Collaborate with Global Supply Chain team to develop and execute category strategies and supplier roadmaps to enable scalable sustainable and resilient supply-chain to support Intuitives Product strategy and roadmap.
- Supplier Selection: Conduct market research to identify trends in the field of plastics manufacturing and determine where new supplier additions are required. Evaluate and select suppliers that enable agility and innovation during new product introduction as well as commercial scalability. Establish a strong partnership with the Strategic Sourcing team to incorporate commercial viability in supplier selection process.
- Supplier Development and Collaboration: Drive adoption of new technologies and automation in the supply-base to achieve high efficiency and production scale. Champion best practices such as DFx Lean SPC six-sigma project management with Intuitives suppliers. Establish clear communication channels with suppliers and lead both technical and business relationships
- Supplier Performance and Monitoring: Work closely with suppliers to select optimal manufacturing process and process controls to achieve high quality and cost performance. Develop effective KPIs to monitor supplier performance (delivery capacity cost quality). Execute projects towards continuous improvements of KPIs.
- Supplier Compliance: Partner with the Supplier Quality organization to drive audit finding resolution with suppliers through processes like CAPA and SCARs to maintain compliance with QMS requirements
- Supplier Risk Management: Partner with Global supply-chain organization to identify various risks within the supply-chain and implement mitigation measures.
- Supplier Change Management: For commercially launched products execute Intuitives change management processes like major/moderate change (MCF) Supplier Change Request (SCR) and Change Order (CO) to support projects enabling capacity scaling cost reduction product quality improvement and supply-chain risk mitigation.
- Stakeholder Influence: Align/Negotiate project ownership and hand-off points with various peer Supplier Engineering groups (New Product Introduction Mfg Plant support Tooling development). Influencing decisions with key partners in Global Operations (Planning Sourcing Procurement) Engineering (Design Process Quality) and Project Management organizations.
Partner with the tactical purchasing group within GSC Supply Chain Engineering & NPI
Qualifications :
Required Skills and Experience:
- Proven ability to lead teams to solve complex technical and process problems.
- Proven ability to hire highly capable staff and grow and mentor staff.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills including presentations to executives.
- Demonstrated project management skills and ability to influence and negotiate with stakeholders.
- Domain knowledge expertise in the plastic category. Demonstrable knowledge of a wide range of manufacturing processes and measurement techniques. Deep understanding of key input variables for quality cost schedule and capacity.
- Outstanding analytical skills along with good judgment.
- Proficiency in Six Sigma and Lean Manufacturing techniques; certification preferred.
- Knowledge of document management systems and ERP Systems preferably Agile and SAP.
- Knowledge of 21 CFR part 820 and ISO 13485 preferred.
- Experience in a high-volume medical device company is a plus.
- Ability to travel to suppliers on an as-needed basis domestic and international (25%).
Required Education and Training:
- BS degree in engineering advanced degree preferred
- 15 years related experience in Manufacturing Operations Supplier Quality Supplier Development or related field with significant medical or medical device experience preferred
- 8 years of experience leading supplier engineering supplier quality or supplier development teams or leadership of equivalent areas.
Additional Information :
Due to the nature of our business and the role please note that Intuitive and/or your customer(s) may require that you show current proof of vaccination against certain diseases including COVID-19. Details can vary by role.
Intuitive is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We provide equal employment opportunities to all qualified applicants and employees and prohibit discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race sex pregnancy sexual orientation gender identity national origin color age religion protected veteran or disability status genetic information or any other status protected under federal state or local applicable laws.
Mandatory Notices
We will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records in accordance with fair chance laws.
Preference will be given to qualified candidates who do not reside or plan to reside in Alabama Arkansas Delaware Florida Indiana Iowa Louisiana Maryland Mississippi Missouri Oklahoma Pennsylvania South Carolina or Tennessee.
We provide market-competitive compensation packages inclusive of base pay incentives benefits and equity. It would not be typical for someone to be hired at the top end of range for the role as actual pay will be determined based on several factors including experience skills and qualifications. The target compensation ranges are listed.
Remote Work :
No
Employment Type :
Full-time
Employment Type
Full-time
