Senior Manager, Supply Chain Engineering

Key Responsibilities
Select and Qualify Components:
-Manages a team of engineers responsible for evaluating and qualifying supplier components at varying degrees of complexity and integration level, ensuring alignment with technical specifications, reliability standards, and lifecycle requirements.
-Provides technical and strategic direction on complex component reliability assessments, leveraging supplier data, industry standards, and accelerated life testing methodologies to drive informed decision-making.
-Partners with Supplier Quality, Supply Chain Security, and Test Engineering teams to establish robust qualification criteria, ensuring components meet product performance, safety, and manufacturability standards.
-Drives supplier-driven quality and process improvement initiatives, reviewing manufacturing processes, material traceability, and process controls to enhance overall component consistency and reliability.
Supplier Engagement:
-Manages supplier relationships, ensuring alignment on technical specifications, quality expectations, and production commitments to support business objectives.
-Manages supplier audit processes, assessing production capabilities, process controls, and adherence to quality and security management systems, driving improvements where needed.
-Leads supplier development initiatives, collaborating with design and procurement teams to enhance supplier capabilities and ensure seamless integration of components into product development.
-Executes strategies to improve supplier efficiency, yield, and overall product quality through continuous collaboration and performance monitoring.
New Product Introduction:
-Ensures supplier readiness for New Product Introduction (NPI), monitoring team activities that support components and supplier processes are validated and production-ready before full-scale launch.
-Leads supplier coordination efforts, aligning production plans with project timelines, demand forecasts, and manufacturability requirements.
-Monitors pilot production validation efforts, ensuring that supplier manufacturing processes meet established quality, cost, and performance expectations.
Failure Analysis:
-Oversees the resolution of supplier-related quality excursions and failures, ensuring timely and effective corrective/preventive actions (RCA, CAPA).
-Leads failure analysis investigations on supplier components, utilizing advanced analytical techniques (e.g., X-ray, scanning electron microscopy [SEM], electrical testing) to determine failure modes and prevent recurrence.
-Defines and monitors key supplier quality metrics, including yield, defect rates, and overall performance, implementing data-driven continuous improvement initiatives.
-Develops and enforces robust processes for managing non-conforming components, including quarantine, rework, and disposition strategies.
Cross-Functional Collaboration:
-Serves as the primary interface between internal stakeholders, facilitating alignment with Design, Operations, Quality, and Procurement teams.
-Drives cross-functional initiatives to enhance product quality, reduce costs, and improve supply chain performance, ensuring business objectives are met.
-Provides technical leadership on design changes, process optimizations, and supplier transitions, mitigating risk and ensuring minimal impact on production and quality.
-Develops and mentors a high-performing engineering team, fostering technical expertise, strategic thinking, and leadership capabilities to support long-term business success.

Core Responsibilities
Planning & Execution:
-Manages multiple medium- to large-scale proj