Component Engineer
Job Title: Component Engineer 4
Duration: 12 months
Location: Sunnyvale, CA
Description:
Primary Function of the Position:
Essential Job Duties:
Required Skills and Experience
Working Conditions
Preferred Skills and Experience
Duration: 12 months
Location: Sunnyvale, CA
Description:
Primary Function of the Position:
- Responsible for ensuring suppliers meet ISI requirements for quality, service, delivery, and cost. Drive suppliers to continuously improve business and manufacturing processes specifically related to wire harness and cable assembly
- Evaluate and select suppliers within copper cables/harness industry. Guide Engineering in choosing suppliers for new products and provide DFM input to new designs. Supports both NPI and on-going 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.
Essential Job Duties:
- Work with NPD to procure custom cables ensuring DFM to achieve quality and cost targets
- Support NPD with proto builds and track material readiness at Supplier
- Drive supplier rootcause analysis for cable harness failures
- Mitigate risks and ensure supply continuity by evaluating capacity, lead times and quality issues
- Develop and maintain harness standards, specifications, and design guidelines.
- Work with Strategic sourcing to evaluate new suppliers and new supplier manufacturing sites
- Complete project/ part qualification deliverables including Supplier pFMEA, Process Validations (IQ/OQ/PQ), Inspection Reports, Gage R&R, and Process Capability Analysis
- 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.
Required Skills and Experience
- Minimum 7 years related experience with an BS Engineering degree or 5 years experience with MS in Engineering.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills including presentations to executive level management.
- Excellent Interpersonal skills and team building skills.
- A proven history of implementing Lean/6 Sigma/SPC Programs at suppliers.
- Excellent Project Management skills.
- Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills along with good judgment.
- Demonstrable knowledge in evaluating and challenging supplier technical, quality, and business capabilities.
- Demonstrable knowledge of a wide range of manufacturing processes including understanding of key input variables for quality, cost, and capacity (specialization can be in cable assembly, wire cutting , termination, crimping, Soldering, overmold )
Working Conditions
- Ability to travel to suppliers on an as-needed basis domestic and international.
Preferred Skills and Experience
- 4-7 years of engineering experience in cable assembly, wire harness production, or electromechanical manufacturing.
- The ideal Candidate possesses broad and deep hands-on cable assembly experience along with wire cutting, stripping, crimping , soldering.
