Supplier Crisis and Risk Management Engineer

Job Description

As the Supply Partner Development Engineer (SPDE) for Group Trucks Purchasing (GTP) North America, you will be part of the Supply Network Resiliency (SNR) group, you drive and manage performance of your supply base from a QDCF-TSR standpoint. You will be part of a team of supplier development colleagues focused on addressing low performing suppliers. You will focus on providing strong supplier technical assistance. The supplier concern areas are heavily focused on unhealthy production systems, lack of technical resources, and an inability to find quick and sustainable solutions when production processes become abnormal. Primarily, the mission is to return the suppliers back to health and install a zero tolerance focus on the supplier for impacting operations or customer satisfaction. Furthermore, when required, the mission is also to support resourcing activities away from troubled suppliers.

As Supplier Development Engineer, you are expected to support all activities that ensure a continuous flow of parts supply to our NA Plants. In addition, this role must also attempt to minimize costs. During supplier development and technical assistance missions, the engineer must choose the right approach, depth, focus, techniques and lessons learned, in order to properly address situations. Each supplier development opportunity may be unique.

Core Responsibilities

• Able to analyze supplier capacity and supplier investment requests.
• Actively engaged with suppliers and supply chains.
• Ability to accurately assess supplier weaknesses and provide solutions.
• Monitor high risk supplier development issues to prevent crisis.
• Drive and develop supplier problem solving techniques for identified supplier fault issues.
• Fix and develop supplier production systems and processes to prevent impact.
• Drive supplier operational excellence.
• Set focused priorities to reach objectives.

Qualifications

Act with strong sense of urgency and commitment.
Able to handle uncertainty and the unexpected.
Able to handle unfamiliar tasks, using previous experiences.
Ability to multitask and manage workload efficiently and effectively.
Ability to drive sense of urgency to suppliers focused on information, communication, and results. Provide direct & actionable feedback.
Be customer focused.
Provide timely information for accurate decisions.
Able to create trustful relations and face reality, surface problems and support finding solutions.
Strong collaboration and leadership skills.
Able to execute in a complex regional organization.
Anticipate bottlenecks, explore contingencies, and provide solutions.

What We Are Looking For

University degree required. Major in engineering or business management or supply chain management preferred
Supply chain (quality and development) and/or production experience
Preferably experience from the automotive or heavy commercial truck industry in supplier quality and capacity, manufacturing engineering, supplier development or crisis management
Strong problem solving, communication and teamwork skills
Strong accountability and project management for tasks without close supervision
Ability to prioritize tasks in a fast-paced environment
Customer focused mindset, dedicated to meet external and internal customer expectations
Desire to work in a collaborative team towards a common purpose
Strong integrity and creativity
Flexibility and preparedness to travel with short notice

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Company Description

Do you want to shape the world of tomorrow and work on innovative projects? Then you're a good fit for us! We are a global engineering group with 15,000 employees and 140 locations worldwide. With our services, we are driving the topics of energy efficiency, climate protection and decarbonization and developing tech industries into new dimensions.

In the United States, the world of SEGULA Technologies Experts revolves around industries such as automotive, software, energy and life sciences. As an independent player, we support OEMs and suppliers with personal engineering services. Take advantage of new opportunities and take on exciting tasks and attractive positions with direct customer assignment.

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