Senior Supplier Manufacturing Engineer, Supplier Oversight

The ideal candidate will play a key role in the Curtiss-Wright EMD Purchasing organization as a Senior Supplier Manufacturing Engineer to provide hands-on problem solving and technical judgement to assist mission-critical suppliers.

Responsibilities

• Proactively oversee supplier processes to review and evaluate supplier performance and implement preventative/corrective actions to improve on-time delivery and manufacturing efficiency.
• Work hand-in-hand with Design Engineering, Sourcing team members, Supplier Quality Engineers, and Project Management to achieve improved critical supplier performance.
• Facilitate Purchasing department initiatives by identifying critical suppliers and acting as a primary manufacturing engineer to ensure flawless production execution.
• Translate company goals into actionable, data-driven improvements to produce positive time savings or cost reduction.
• Lead proactive development processes to act on opportunities for improvement and resolve vulnerability issues across critical suppliers.
• Build relationships with critical suppliers to optimize communication, on-time delivery performance, and through capability, yield improvement, and throughput optimization.
• Perform technical reviews, production/first article readiness reviews, PFMEA, control plans, process audits, and on-site oversight.
• Conduct root cause analysis and corrective action efforts related to manufacturing nonconformances.
• Manage supplier preparation for documentation submittals, source inspections, audits, and regulatory or customer visits as required.
• Perform and direct nonconformance dispositioning as required.
• Cross-functionally coordinate with internal design engineering, quality, supply chain, and program teams to troubleshoot manufacturing issues.
• Share best practices and lessons learned across internal and supplier organizations.
• Travel (50% local, domestic or international as required).

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in an Engineering discipline and/or equivalent experience in a Manufacturing Lead role.
• A minimum of ten (10) years in a manufacturing environment with primary experience in one or more of the following: machining, fabrication welding, testing, winding and/or assembly processes.
• Prior experience working on-site with suppliers highly desired.
• Experience in commercial nuclear, defense, aerospace, energy, or similarly regulated industries.
• Working knowledge of quality systems within the commercial nuclear (i.e., 10CFR50 Appendix B, ASME NQA-1) or defense industry (i.e., ISO-9001, MIL-I-45208).
• Blue print reading, particularly involving GD&T per ASME Y14.5M.
• Evaluation of design changes, and/or other specifications requirements, with experience in determining how those changes relate to potential manufacturing process changes.
• Former experience with procedure, work instruction, drawing or routing creation, review or approval.
• Former impactful experience with complex project management, problem prevention, strategy deployment and/or mentoring.
• Excellent organization, communication (written and oral) and presentation skills.
• Problem-solving, especially involving tight feature tolerances and rework of part deviations.
• Champion and define manufacturing strategies of large-scale projects.
• Green or Black Belt Lean Certification a plus.

Qualifications

• US citizen.
• Ability to obtain and maintain DOD security clearance.

Skills

• Technical leadership via performance of technical reviews, production/first article readiness reviews, Product Failure Modes Effects Analysis (PFMEA), control plans, process audits and on-site oversight.
• Root cause analysis and corrective action efforts related to manufacturing nonconformances.
• Supplier preparation for documentation submittals, source inspections, audits, and regulatory or customer visits as required.
• Nonconformance dispositioning as required.
• Coordinate cross-functionally with internal design engineering, quality, supply chain, and program teams to troubleshoot manufacturing issues.
• Share best practices and lessons learned across internal and supplier organizations.
• Travel (50% local, domestic or international as required).

Benefits

• Paid Time Off
• I 401K with Employer Match and Profit Sharing
• Health and Wellness Benefits
• Learning and Development Opportunities
• Referral Program
• Competitive Pay
• Recognition
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan
• Inclusive & Supportive Culture

Pay

$86,100.00 - $143,500.00 per year