Supplier Industrial Engineer

Job Title: Supplier Industrial Engineer

Location: Remote

Duration: 6+ Months (Long Term Project-Possible Extension)

Description

• Assess supplier production control and quality programs, identify shortfalls to expectation, and directly secure agreement to correct
• Evaluate and communicate the yield of new and existing processes
• Establish validation procedures to determine acceptance of tooling into development builds as well as mass production
• Develop and implement quality inspection tools including audit procedures
• Identify and direct studies to implement improvements in measuring methods where appropriate
• Plan, propose, and lead experiments to produce timely and accurate analyses used to drive design, development, and supply chain decisions
• Drive process development and capability assessment activities, reviewing part design documentation to ensure alignment with process capability
• Review supplier tool design, process flow, equipment selection, DFM, and DOE proposals
• Identify shortfalls and corrective actions to ensure design compliance
• Assess supplier readiness to support build events and production ramp. Identify potential execution issues and provide recommendations to mitigate risk

Requirements

• BS/BA degree, or 5+ years of industry experience
• Proficient in verbal & written English
• Prior experience with North America based customers and overseas vendors
• Able and willing to travel internationally
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills; able to work in a large cross-functional team environment
• Familiar with optical inspection/metrology, mechanical metrology system qualification process such as GRR, Correlation, Stability and Reliability
• Expert understanding of geometric dimensioning and tolerancing
• Strong understanding of statistical process control techniques; process capability assessment (Cpk, Ppk), MSA.
• Experience in PCBA manufacturing process background with practical experience (SMT and Thru Hole)
• Experience in PPAP/APQP Processes
• Excellent data analysis, statistics, documentation, communication, project management skills
• Ability to work on multiple projects at a time
• Self starter - able to define engineering tasks to meet project objectives and ability to quickly learn new processes with limited information provided Positive customer-first attitude