Department: Logistics / Supply Chain / Distribution / Transportation
Employment Type: Full Time
Location: India
Reporting To: Danny Phillips
Description
Experienced Supplier Development Engineer responsible for developing and managing our supplier base for submersible pumps and motors in India. The successful candidate will work closely with cross-functional teams to ensure supplier quality, reliability, and performance meet our company's standards.
Key Responsibilities
ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
- Supplier Development: Develop and implement comprehensive supplier development strategies to improve quality, delivery, and cost
- Supplier Scorecards: Establish scorecards to measure suppliers performance, providing feedback and areas for improvement.
- Supplier Audits and Assessments: Regularly evaluate suppliers quality, delivery, and cost performance to identify areas for improvement.
- Collaborative Approach: Collaborate with global procurement, global engineering, and global quality teams to identify and qualify new suppliers.
- Cost Reduction Initiatives: Collaborate with suppliers to identify and implement cost-saving opportunities.
- Long-term Agreements: Negotiate long-term contracts or partnerships to ensure supplier commitment and stability.
- Process Improvement Initiatives: Drive continuous improvement initiatives with suppliers
- Delivery Performance Improvement: Implement just-in-time (JIT) delivery, vendor-managed inventory (VMI), or other strategies to improve suppliers delivery performance.
- Compliance: Ensure compliance with regulatory requirements and industry standards
Skills, Knowledge and Expertise
Skills And Abilities
- Communication Delivers accurate, clear, and concise messages orally and/or in writing.
- Problem Solving Uses a logical, systematic search for the source of a problem, determining the most likely cause by eliminating potential causes of a problem.
- Decision Making Identifies and understands issues, problems, and opportunities; compares alternatives and makes timely decisions.
- Project Management Develops project plans, schedules and budgets, and keeps project team on task. Manages risks and issues. Prepares and delivers project status reports.
Education And Experience
- Bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering or related field.
- Minimum 7- 10 years of experience in supplier development or quality engineering preferably from submersible pumps and motors manufacturing background.
- Hands on experience in working with suppliers of casting items, machining components, plastic parts
- Familiar with Lean Manufacturing, Six Sigma, or other process improvement methods
Computer Skills
- Advanced knowledge in Microsoft Office Suite (Excel, Word, PowerPoint, and Access) with PowerBI
Physical Activities
While performing the functions of this job, the employee is:
- Continually required to travel
- Regularly required to reach with hands to finger, handle, or feel; kneel and crouch; and talk or hear.
- Working at workshops / factories / shopfloor of supplier.
