Senior Supplier Manufacturing Engineer, Supplier Oversight

Your Responsibilities

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. The individual will perform proactive supplier oversight to review and evaluate supplier processes and employ preventative/correction actions as required to improve on-time delivery and supplier manufacturing efficiency. The individual will be required to work hand-in-hand with Design Engineering, Sourcing team members, Supplier Quality Engineers, and Project Management to result in improved critical Supplier performance.

Criteria

• 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.
• Prior experience with quality systems within the commercial nuclear (i.e., 10CFR50 Appendix B, ASME NQA-1) or defense industry (i.e., ISO-9001, MIL-I-45208) desired.
• Former experience with procedure, work instruction, drawing or routing creation, review or approval.
• Evaluation of design changes, and/or other specifications requirements, with experience in determining how those changes relate to potential manufacturing process changes.
• 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.

Your Challenge

• Facilitate Purchasing department initiatives by assisting with identification of critical suppliers.
• Act as a primary manufacturing engineer partnering with critical suppliers ensuring day-to-day 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 to resolve vulnerability issues across critical suppliers.
• Relationship building with critical suppliers to optimize communication, on-time delivery performance through capability, yield improvement, and throughput optimization.
• Acting as expert in assigned critical supplier manufacturing process execution.
• 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.
• Perform critical supplier capacity assessments.
• 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 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).

What You Bring

• Bachelor’s degree in an Engineering discipline and/or equivalent experience in a Manufacturing Lead role.
• Experience in commercial nuclear, defense, aerospace, energy, or similarly regulated industries.
• Prior experience working on-site with suppliers highly desired.
• 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) desired.
• Blueprint reading, particularly involving GD&T per ASME Y14.5M.
• Former experience with procedure, work instruction, drawing or routing creation, review or approval.
• Evaluation of design changes, and/or other specifications requirements, with experience in determining how those changes relate to potential manufacturing process changes.
• 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.