Supplier Development Engineer III

Daikin Applied Americas is the world's largest HVAC company, recognized by Forbes as one of America's Best-In-State Employers 2025. They are hiring a Supplier Development Engineer to enhance supplier capabilities, improve cost, quality, and timeliness of delivered products, and collaborate closely with various internal teams to support ongoing improvements.

Responsibilities:

• Complete technical supplier assessments relating to manufacturing capability (machinery, tooling, processes), quality, workforce, capacity, continuous improvement, and sub-tier management
• Review and develop supplier capacity analysis and tools
• Develop, initiate and maintain supplier specific development plans
• Develop, initiate and maintain supplier specific KPI performance management
• Deploys risk mitigation plans
• Monitor, support and facilitate continuous improvement events and initiatives
• Review engineering designs as related to a specific supplier’s capabilities and facilitate producibility and design to cost changes
• Review new product introduction designs for producibility and design to cost
• Investigate problem jobs and participate in solutions to improve product quality and recover expenses incurred by Daikin that are the responsibility of the supplier
• Conduct presentations to internal customers and business unit management

Requirements:

• Bachelor's Degree or equivalent experience in management or STEM
• 8+ Year of experience with Supply Chain, Manufacturing, or similar
• Ability to travel up to 40% if necessary
• 4+ years of related field operations/Supply Chain experience on manufacturing products, controls, and systems
• Lean Six Sigma Green Belt or Black Belt certification
• Experience coordinating teams of internal and external clients