Commodity Supplier Assurance Engineer

Role Overview

• Drive Process Improvements: Implement strategies to enhance manufacturing processes at supplier facilities.
• Foster Strong Relationships: Build and maintain effective partnerships with internal and external customers, key collaborators, and stakeholders.
• Guide Decision-Making: Provide quality assurance expertise to influence decisions, ensuring alignment with customer priorities and mission success.
• Communicate Technical Requirements: Interpret and convey purchase order technical and quality requirements to ensure compliance by suppliers.
• Ensure Compliance with Product Requirements: Verify that product specifications are properly communicated and adhered to by suppliers and sub-tier suppliers.
• Evaluate Supplier Performance: Conduct supplier assessments focused on quality, engineering, manufacturing capabilities, capacity, risk and opportunities.
• Perform Technical Evaluations: Conduct in-depth technical evaluations to support cost and price analysis.
• Manage Supplier Change Requests: Oversee supplier requests for product and process changes to ensure alignment with requirements.
• Report Supplier Health: Communicate the technical health and performance of suppliers to stakeholders, providing clear updates and insights.
• Resolve Supplier Risks: Identify and address supplier risks and systemic issues through detailed root-cause analysis and corrective actions.
• Drive Continuous Improvement: Apply Six Sigma, lean methodologies, and other analytical tools to advance continuous improvement initiatives.
• Oversee Quality Activities: Manage First Article Verification, Source Inspection, supplier assessments, audits, and reviews to ensure compliance.
• Mitigate Risks and Support Program Objectives: Proactively resolve supplier risks and ensure alignment with broader program goals and objectives. Up to 50% domestic travel.

Requirements

• Typically requires a degree in Science, Technology, Engineering, or Mathematics (STEM) and a minimum of 5 years of relevant experience in engineering, quality assurance, supplier management, or supplier auditing.
• Relevant experience is working in engineering in any of the following disciplines: mechanical, electrical, manufacturing, and/or quality disciplines that include technical supplier management.
• Experience assessing / auditing the technical capabilities / performance of suppliers to ensure compliance with requirements and standards.
• Experience leading corrective action initiatives using Root Cause Corrective Action (RCCA) methodologies (e.g. 5 Whys, Fishbone Diagram, Fault Tree Analysis, 8D Problem Solving, or similar tools).
• Experience executing process improvements discovered during RCCA and presenting data to support decision-making activities (e.g. utilizing Six Sigma, Lean, Kaizen, Value Stream Management, or other analytical tools).
• The ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. government-issued security clearance is a mandatory requirement.
• U.S. citizenship is required, as it is a prerequisite for obtaining a security clearance.

Benefits

• medical
• dental
• vision
• life insurance
• short-term disability
• long-term disability
• 401(k) match
• flexible spending accounts
• flexible work schedules
• employee assistance program
• Employee Scholar Program
• parental leave
• paid time off
• holidays