Sr Supplier Manufacturing Engineer, Plastics

Company: Intuitive
Location: Sunnyvale
Posted on: April 6, 2025

Job Description:

Job DescriptionPrimary 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. Evaluate and select suppliers. Guide Engineering in choosing suppliers for new products and provide DFM input to new designs. Supports both NPI and ongoing 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.The ideal Candidate possesses broad and deep direct plastic injection molding, extrusion and silicone molding experience along with skills to select and develop suppliers.Essential Job Duties:

• Complete project/part qualification deliverables including Supplier pFMEA, Process Validations (IQ/OQ/PQ), Inspection Reports, Gage R&R, and Process Capability Investigation.
• 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 partners.
• Build, own, and relentlessly pursue a vision for developing suppliers.
• Comprehend proper level of documentation detail for tracking of actions and justification of actions.
• 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. Drive 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 recommendations 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 autonomously working with suppliers on scorecard creation.
• Work with suppliers and ISI engineering for the new product introduction to:
• Create product supplier landscapes to establish 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 the development cycle to feedback manufacturability improvements in the designs prior to production.
• Influence and guide Engineering in choosing suppliers by formulating selection criteria for preferred suppliers and leading the team effort to evaluate preferred suppliers.
• Review, examine, and close customer complaints, manufacturing variance requests, and first article inspections by judging risk analyses and justifications.
• Evaluate corrective and preventive actions at suppliers, looking for opportunities with suppliers to eliminate recurrence.
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