Senior Supplier Development Engineer Job in Sunnyvale 94089, California US
Bloom Energy, a fuel cell company and one of Silicon Valley's most promising startups, is looking for an experienced Senior Supplier Development Engineer to join its world class team. This individual should be a passionate, hands-on professional who is looking for a rewarding future in one of today's most exciting technologies.
- Work closely with vendor base to achieve process capability, capacity, and cost
- Serve as "Voice of the Supplier" in response to tolerances, engineering changes, specification capability, and process capability improvements
- Support vendor in communication and evaluation of ECN's, drawing changes for feasibility, and appropriate responses (investment, capacity, cost, timing)
- Support commodity managers with identifying and validating manufacturing cost data for cost models
- Work with Quality team to support vendor quality issue resolution
- Design, implement, and manage supplier Scorecard and performance. Champion scorecard performance improvement actions
- Conduct Value engineering workshops at vendor base
- Support vendor with DFM and vertical integration projects and lead change control to implement
- Support manufacturing projects at vendor related to capacity and capability
- Support vendor with FMEA, control plans for current products and changes imposed by BE or Vendor
- Support vendor in developing Production Systems and Quality systems
- Support vendor with tooling strategy
- Serve as Program Manager with Vendor for capacity increases
- Serve as early identification and pre-qualification of new suppliers
- Work with NPI and TVM's on process development for brand new technology
- BS or MS in Mechanical or Materials Engineering
- 5 to 8 years post-undergraduate experience in a mass production environment
- Ability to manage technical and production activities with the vendor base, with demonstrated experience working at all levels at the vendor
- Proven technical and project management skills; ability to manage multiple projects/vendors concurrently and lead continuous improvement teams
- Ability to interface across departments internally and at the vendor, including Purchasing, Quality, RD, Manufacturing, Marketing and Finance
- Hands-on experience working with mass production/lean six sigma manufacturing systems and suitability to fuel cell components and systems
- Solid understanding and experience with quality systems, capability analysis and cost drivers in manufacturing
- PPAP experience for high technology components highly desirable
- Demonstrated experience on achieving target costs in high tech industry
- Experience with supply chain business processes
- Good understanding of make/buy details
- Ability to persuade vendors to undertake key component projects using written and oral communications
- Ability to evaluate vendors on financial parameters, like capital structure, ROA, profitability etc (develop supplier scorecard) a plus
If interested, please apply online at http://track.tmpservice.com/ApplyClick.aspx?id=1419603-1789-4872
August 28, 2009
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