Supplier Engineer

Introduction

Our client supports the semiconductor industry's ongoing quest for producing faster, smarter and more energy efficient chips. We are a dynamic, international and highly skilled workforce.

We are looking for a Supplier Engineer that takes a pivotal role as a linking pin between the client's development team and the related development team of the supplier, with a primary focus on parts quality.

Job Mission

As a Supplier Engineer in the business line you will be operating in a fast paced and multidisciplinary development environment.

The SCE maintains and develops at an operational level the relation to the supplier with the purpose to create an optimal engineering collaboration between supplier and our client. Using your personal skills, you will work closely together with the supplier & the development teams to optimize the effectiveness and efficiency of the product generation process, in alignment with the project plan. The main goal of this cross-sector activity is to secure an excellent quality of parts delivered by our suppliers.

Job Description

Within the D&E project the SCE is the primary responsible to ensure parts quality from our suppliers. Using your in-depth technical knowledge, analytic thinking, political antenna and excellent people skills, you work closely with suppliers to build up an intimate knowledge of their IP and technological capabilities.

The main responsibilities are:

- Early supplier involvement in the D&E project to secure that technology expertise of the client and supplier are merged in the best way.
- Ensure that not only parts quality, however, also manufacturability and serviceability aspects are covered in the design phase.
- New product introduction (NPI) and supplier selection.
- Deliverables that secure parts quality from suppliers in the product generation process, such as:

o Acceptance of the design and/or specification

o Complete & detailed parts qualification process

o Acceptance of qualified parts

o Process flow and Process failure mode effect analysis

o First article inspection

- Define and maintain supplier interface processes, such as:

o Issue resolution

o Qualification deviation

o Configuration management

o Factory disturbances

- Contribute to supplier development to improve operational excellence by driving execution of existing agreements, improvement actions, and participation in supplier audits.

Education

Bachelor or Masters degree in physics/optics, mechatronics, mechanical engineering or related.

Experience

Broad (preferably >5 years) experience in high-tech industry with a focus on supplier management.

Personal skills

The following personal skills are crucial to a successful execution:

- Ability to initiate, influence and steer without formal authority.
- Strong networker with good negotiating and team building skills
- Strong communicator.
- Ability to switch between complex matters and high-level conclusions.
- Self-propelling, showing initiative and drive.
- Flexible, result driven and committed.
- Team player
- Process oriented
- Fluent in English

Michael Bailey International is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.