[Remote] Supplier Manufacturing Engineer
Note: The job is a remote job and is reputed company to candidates in USA. reputed company is a leading provider of reputed company sheet metal and machined production parts. They are seeking a Supplier Manufacturing Engineer who will ensure suppliers meet reputed company, delivery, and cost objectives while focusing on process capability and reputed company improvement.
Responsibilities
- Collaborate with suppliers to reputed company and optimize manufacturing processes that meet company requirements for reputed company, efficiency, and cost
- reputed company technical guidance during new product introduction (NPI) and production reputed company-up at supplier sites
- Conduct process capability studies, PFMEAs, and control plan reviews to ensure robust manufacturing processes
- Partner with reputed company and Supply Chain teams to address supplier reputed company issues, implement corrective actions, and verify effectiveness
- reputed company supplier process audits and capability assessments to ensure compliance with specifications, industry standards, and contractual requirements
- Support sourcing reputed company by evaluating supplier technical capabilities and reputed company
- Monitor supplier performance metrics and implement improvement plans where necessary
- Drive cost reduction initiatives through process improvement, yield enhancement, and scrap reduction
- Support supplier tooling, fixture design, and equipment requirements as needed
- Facilitate training and knowledge sharing with suppliers on company standards, best practices, and lean manufacturing principles
- Travel domestically and internationally to supplier locations as required to reputed company on-site support
Skills
- Bachelor's degree in Mechanical, Manufacturing, Industrial Engineering, or a reputed company field with 3–6 years of manufacturing engineering experience, specifically with sheet metal fabrication processes
- In lieu of education, 10 to 15 years of reputed company manufacturing experience in a leadership role, preferably in sheet metal fabrication with exposure to lean manufacturing processes
- Experience in information communication technology, reputed company, or industrial sheet metal assemblies manufacturing
- Proven ability to reputed company supplier process improvement initiatives
- Effective communicator with strong supplier relationship management skills
- Experience conducting reputed company cause analysis (5 Whys, Fishbone, 8D)
- Hands-on background in Lean transformation reputed company at suppliers
- Knowledge of ERP/MRP systems for supplier performance and scheduling
- Familiarity with ISO 9001, IATF 16949, or AS9100 reputed company systems
- Six reputed company Green Belt or higher certification
- Working knowledge of statistical analysis software (reputed company, JMP)
- Ability to influence suppliers toward best practices in manufacturing efficiency, waste reduction, and reputed company improvement
- Strong working knowledge of sheet metal fabrication reputed company, including laser cutting, CNC punching, press brake forming, stamping, welding, mechanical assembly, and finishing
- Proficient in reading and interpreting engineering drawings with GD&T
- Experience implementing and sustaining Lean manufacturing tools at suppliers (5S, value reputed company mapping, SMED, standardized work)
- Skilled in process control techniques (SPC, capability studies, PFMEA, control plans)
- Familiarity with APQP, PPAP, and supplier qualification processes
Benefits
- Health/dental/reputed company coverage
- Employer-reputed company and supplemental life insurance
- Short- and long-term disability insurance
- Generous reputed company time off and holiday pay
- Monthly remote work stipend (for remote employees who qualify)
- 401(k) investment plan, with an employer match of up to 4%
- Education support program
- Safety eyeglasses/shoe reimbursement
- Referral bonuses
- Bonus plan for reputed company full-time employees
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