Supplier Management Engineer III - Electrical (Onsite in Loveland, CO)

Imagine yourself…

• Doing meaningful work that makes an everyday impact on the world around you. 

• Growing your expertise and expanding your skillset with every project. 

• Owning your ambition and fueling your career growth. 

At Hach (www.hach.com), a Veralto company, we ensure water quality for people around the world, and every team member plays a vital role in that mission. Our founding vision is to make water analysis better—faster, simpler, greener and more informative. We accomplish this through teamwork, customer partnerships, passionate experts, and reliable, easy-to-use solutions.

As part of our team and the broader Veralto network, you’ll be part of a unique work environment where purpose meets possibility: where you’ll make an immediate, measurable impact on a global scale by enabling the world’s everyday water needs, and where you’ll have opportunities to foster your professional development and fuel your career growth.

Motivated by the highest possible stakes of climate change and global health, we’re working together within a rapidly digitizing industry to find innovative technologies that guarantee the safety of our water and our environment.  More about us: https://www.hach.com/about-us

We offer:

• Benefits starting Day 1 including medical/dental/vision, 401k with company matching
• Annual Performance-Based Bonuses
• Family benefits including family planning support and paid parental leave for birthing and non-birthing parents
• Lots of independence with a seriously supportive team and manager!

Reporting to the Reporting to the Senior Manager, Value Analysis/Value Engineering, the Supplier Management Engineer III is responsible for the planning and execution of engineering projects primarily focused on supply chain risk reduction as well as cost reduction projects and all its derived activities through the funnel stages (identification, valuation, scoping/assessment, execution, production release, and closure) related to supplier capacity, continuity, consolidation, on-time delivery, and quality of components or material. This role will also document processes, procedures, and standard work, having a broad interaction and communication with other departments of the organization, in this capacity the Engineer will serve as the liaison between functional departments, managing technical relationships with suppliers and troubleshooting component supply chain issues aimed to maintain the manufacture of our products in any plant worldwide from Hach. This position will also include support of Global Supplier Risk Management in their different time zones worldwide, Supplier Relationship Management, and global Best-Cost-Region sourcing.

This position is part of the Loveland Global Operations team and will be on-site in Loveland, Colorado.

In this role, a typical day will look like:

• Drive project execution for in-sourcing, outsourcing, and vertical integration initiatives that bridge the involvement of complex cross-functional teams and 3rd party suppliers across multiple sites. 
• Forecast financial savings metrics and provide input to the annual budget cycle.
• Develop cost optimization projects with target suppliers and internal teams.
• Ensure Project deliveries on time to support global procurement supplier strategies (dual source, resource, or insource).
• Identify potential supplier cost-out projects and develop preliminary Business Cases for evaluation and prioritization driving them from identification to closure.
• Manage multiple projects simultaneously across all funnel stages to advance in a timely manner
• Drive DFM product collaboration with the design Engineering & Operations Teams to identify manufacturing processes improvements and cost-out initiatives.
• Develop and Document Supplier Management team process/standard work and continuous improvement
• Act as a technical and process resource to Supplier Management Engineers II, as well as to the Procurement Team
• Partner with the Commodity Manager, Electronics in his/her role of managing the commodity, identifying material cost productivity projects, and resourcing projects.
• Develop and maintain a Tooling database to control Supplier tools’ lifespan.
• Supports Operations in the selection, assessment, and qualification of new suppliers

The essential requirements of the job include:

• BS Degree preferred/required, with 5 - 7 years experience minimum in