Supplier Development Engineer
Caterpillar
- Tianjin Wuxi, Jiangsu
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Ensuring the quality of supplies by conducting tests and assessments on incoming supplies to identify any quality issues; Developing supplier inspection, testing, and evaluation mechanism.
- Generating reports on supplier quality, by monitoring their defect rates and areas that can lead to potential flaws; Guiding suppliers to reduce these defect rates.
- Researching the potential vendors, assessing their manufacturing environment, practices, and procedures; Conducting supplier quality control audits to ensure compliance with organizational and federal policies and standards.
- Supporting suppliers in improving their performance
- Delivers helpful feedback that focuses on behaviours without offending the recipient.
- Listens to feedback without defensiveness and uses it for own communication effectiveness.
- Makes oral presentations and writes reports needed for own work.
- Avoids technical jargon when inappropriate.
- Looks for and considers non-verbal cues from individuals and groups.
- Ensures capture of lessons to be learned from a problem-solving effort.
- Organizes potential problem solvers and leads problem resolution efforts.
- Uses varying problem-solving approaches and techniques as appropriate.
- Contributes to standard practices for problem-solving approaches, tools, and processes.
- Analyses and synthesizes information and devises alternative resolution strategies.
- Develops successful resolutions to critical or wide-impact problems.
- Streamlines the critical workflow for executing key processes.
- Sets priorities for addressing process problems that limit performance.
- Develops methods for improving and establishing controls for critical processes.
- Monitors external sources for applicable new methods and controls.
- Analyzes findings from improvement cycles to ensure success of interventions.
- Coaches others to develop the skills to improve processes.
- Collaborates with other groups to develop quality standards that are synchronized across units.
- Defines quality from multiple perspectives - e.g., operational, employee, customer, market.
- Applies current best practices to modify standards and improve quality outcomes.
- Resolves apparent discrepancies between quality and safety objectives.
- Monitors intangible measures of quality such as perceived quality to ensure operational outcomes are relevant to stakeholders.
- Coaches team members in applying methodologies for quality assurance.
- Develops testing and validation procedures to test the quality of manufactured parts/products so that it meets desired customer standards.
- Identifies and resolves key issues with PPAP implementation and submissions.
- Monitors the execution of PPAP steps within a facility and ensures their compliance with industry standards and internal guidelines.
- Oversees PPAP implementation; establishes a high trust relationship between stakeholders.
- Reviews the complex documentation and elements required during the PPAP submission process.
- Trains others on the execution of PPAP to get the required approvals and teaches them about the different PPAP submission levels.
- Ensures communication vehicles are effectively informing affected areas and personnel.
- Consults on development and implementation of cross-functional standards.
- Participates in the development of organizational policies and practices.
- Develops and uses control and monitoring mechanisms for adherence.
- Collaborates with other functions on establishing and documenting joint standards.
- Participates in defining architectural principles and standards for organization.
- Facilitates supplier partnering arrangements that share risk and reward.
- Monitors supplier performance; works to resolve discrepancies between performance and agreements.
- Develops quality standards and controls for suppliers.
- Builds and maintains partnerships with multiple and/or large suppliers.
- Evaluates issues and terminates supplier relationships as appropriate; works with legal departments.
- Ensures the fulfilment of report and record-keeping requirements.
- Evaluates potential suppliers for a wide variety of products.
- Develops a preferred suppliers list for selection and evaluation.
- Designs key aspects of and processes for evaluating a supplier's capabilities.
- Compares and contrasts alternative methods and tools for the evaluation of organizations and products.
- Analyses and resolves supplier product quality, support, or pricing problems.
- Works with multiple evaluation, selection, and certification initiatives.
- Bachelor's degree or above in engineering
- Minimum of 5 - 8 years of job related experience
- A quality or manufacturing background plus familiarity with machining processes used to produce diesel engine components and assemblies for Caterpillar Products
- Knowledge or experience of APQP procedures, quality management and quality control
- Knowledge of the tools and techniques of 6 Sigma methodology is highly desired and will likely be attained through prior completion of Green Belt training and/or other 6 Sigma experience is desirable
- Fluid communication in English
- Working initiatively, strong sense of taking lead and breaking-through
- Good human relation/communication skills as well as possess the potential for leadership is required to develop a cooperative working relationships with others both inside and outside of Caterpillar.
- Travel time is expected to be 30-50% of working time.