Supplier Development Engineer

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end coordination of supplier readiness and risk management activities supporting prototype builds, pre-production milestones, and product launch initiatives.
• Manage supplier-related crises, ensuring issues are identified, escalated, tracked, and resolved in a timely manner.
• Maintain a consolidated readiness view across suppliers, components, and project milestones, highlighting critical risks, dependencies, and decision points.
• Monitor supplier performance and delivery risks while driving root cause analysis, containment actions, and recovery plans.
• Prioritize active supplier issues and readiness gaps, ensuring focus remains on the highest-impact risks to build schedules and launch objectives.
• Support cross-functional teams by driving accountability, tracking actions, and ensuring closure of critical activities.
• Prepare escalation materials and facilitate decision-making with project teams, suppliers, purchasing teams, and leadership stakeholders.
• Establish and maintain governance processes, including reporting structures, escalation paths, meeting cadence, action tracking, and communication routines.
• Lead risk review meetings, crisis management forums, and leadership updates, ensuring transparency on status, risks, and mitigation plans.
• Support operating model stabilization and documentation of processes, lessons learned, and transition plans.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Supply Chain, Business, Engineering, Operations, or a related field.
• Experience in Purchasing, Supplier Management, Supply Chain, Program Management, or Project Management.
• Strong background in supplier readiness, escalation management, risk mitigation, or crisis management.
• Experience supporting product launches, prototype builds, manufacturing programs, or operational readiness initiatives.
• Strong understanding of supplier performance management, ordering processes, dependency management, and supply chain risk.
• Proven ability to lead root cause investigations, corrective actions, and recovery planning efforts.
• Experience working in manufacturing, industrial, automotive, or production-driven environments.
• Strong project execution skills with the ability to manage multiple priorities simultaneously.
• Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills across operational teams, suppliers, and senior leadership.
• Experience working within cross-functional and global organizations.
• Fluent in English, both written and spoken.
• Able to remain organized and effective in fast-paced, high-pressure environments.

Nice to Have

• Experience supporting new product introductions (NPI), product launches, or manufacturing ramp-ups.
• Background in supplier quality, procurement, logistics, or operations.
• Experience facilitating governance forums, executive reviews, and escalation processes.
• Strong analytical and reporting skills with experience creating executive-level summaries and action plans.

Qualifications

Apex Systems is an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate or allow discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, creed, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding, or related medical conditions), age, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, genetic information, registered domestic partner status, marital status, disability, status as a crime victim, protected veteran status, political affiliation, union membership, or any other characteristic protected by law.

Apex will consider qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with the requirements of applicable law.

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Apex Systems is a world-class IT services company that serves thousands of clients across the globe. When you join Apex, you become part of a team that values innovation, collaboration, and continuous learning. We offer quality career resources, training, certifications, development opportunities, and a comprehensive benefits package.

Our commitment to excellence is reflected in many awards, including ClearlyRated's Best of Staffing® in Talent Satisfaction in the United States and Great Place to Work® in the United Kingdom and Mexico.

Everforth Apex is a world-class IT services company that serves thousands of clients across the globe. When you join Everforth Apex, you become part of a team that values innovation, collaboration, and continuous learning. We offer quality career resources, training, certifications, development opportunities, and a comprehensive benefits package.

Our commitment to excellence is reflected in many awards, including ClearlyRated's Best of Staffing® in Talent Satisfaction in the United States and Great Place to Work® in the United Kingdom and Mexico.

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Everforth Apex is an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate or allow discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, creed, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding, or related medical conditions), age, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, genetic information, registered domestic partner status, marital status, disability, status as a crime victim, protected veteran status, political affiliation, union membership, or any other characteristic protected by law.

Everforth Apex will consider qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with the requirements of applicable law.

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