Senior Metals Engineer, Strategic Sourcing

The Senior Metals Engineer, Strategic Sourcing serves as a global technical resource on the Strategic Sourcing team, supporting engineering activities related to CooperSurgical’s supply chain. This position interacts with all CooperSurgical locations and departments as well as external suppliers worldwide.

Job Summary:

The Senior Metals Engineer, Strategic Sourcing is a technical resource for strategic or sustaining engineering projects. The position is responsible for providing technical leadership for supplied product changes, improvements, transfers, and other strategic sourcing initiatives.  This role is focused primarily on metal materials, components, assemblies, and related tooling, but will also work with other commodity types. The Senior Metals Engineer, Strategic Sourcing will partner with Global Category Managers to find innovative collaborative ways to reduce risk, achieve cost savings, and improve the supply chain. The Senior Metals Engineer, Strategic Sourcing creates a vital link between suppliers and internal teams to deliver a superior product to customers.

• Transform the supply base through rationalization, re-sourcing, and risk mitigation activities by supporting supplier assessment and supplier development actions to drive compliance, risk management, cost, quality, delivery, and services targets. 
• Partner with Category Managers to assess current supply base core competencies in the development of a long-term sourcing strategy of assigned categories. 
• Develop and maintain thorough knowledge of technological developments and trends for guidance of commodity teams in advancements of design, quality, and manufacturing.
• Proactively review supplier capabilities, assess operational gaps to identify risks and takes a systematic action to develop a world class supply base. 
• Actively develops and coaches suppliers on how to meet CooperSurgical’s quality system requirements and Production Part Approval Process (PPAP) requirements to successfully complete validations.   
• Act as a liaison between Supplier and Product Engineering on Strategic Sourcing projects designed to reduce supply risk and build a high-quality supply base to support future growth. 
• Manages projects of moderate complexity
• Partner with supplier and Product Engineering to assure part to engineering specifications match, redline specifications and initiates engineering change orders as needed. 
• Identify cost reduction opportunities in partnership with Category Managers, internal stakeholders and suppliers to meet year over year cost targets. 
• Perform additional responsibilities or assignments as directed by management.
• Take a supporting technical role in negotiating supply agreements, statements of work, and pricing for goods and/or services. 
• Develop a “should cost” model process for assessment of purchased components. 
• Engage with supplier on design of new tooling to assure CooperSurgical’s expectations for tooling are met on NPD and legacy products as needed.     
• Identify insourcing and outsourcing opportunities in partnership with Category Managers and Operations manufacturing strategy; supports technical component in the make/buy analysis. 
• Take an active supporting role in Supplier Business Reviews 
• Perform additional responsibilities or assignments as directed by management.

Travel: Up to 30% domestically and internationally

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• Proficiency with metal part manufacturing (stamping, machining, casting, forming) methods, tooling, and assembly processes.
• Working knowledge of medical device NPI or lifecycle management processes 
• Demonstrated working knowledge of supplier controls, PPAP, process validation, failure investigation techniques, root cause analysis, corrective/preventive action procedures, and protocol/report generation. 
• Ability to manage projects of moderate to high complexity
• Proficient with GD&T and interpreting drawings
• Computer Skills (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Smartsheet, PLM system, CAD (SolidWorks))
• Superb Oral and Written communication skills including presentation skills

Work Environment:

• Works on-site at a Cooper Surgical manufacturing location (Trumbull, CT; Livingston, NJ; or Stafford, TX).  Travel up to 30% is also part of this work scenario.
• Interacts with domestic and international suppliers frequently