The Supplier Engineer is responsible for ensuring suppliers reliably support plant production by meeting Intuitive requirements for quality, delivery, capacity, cost, and service. This role is highly execution-focused and serves as the primary technical interface between the plant and suppliers to resolve line-impacting issues, improve supplier manufacturing processes, and maintain stable production operations across multiple product families.
- Serve as the primary technical interface between plant manufacturing teams and suppliers for quality issues, line disruptions, yield loss, delivery concerns, and capacity constraints.
- Lead supplier issue resolution from containment through root cause investigation and corrective/preventive action implementation.
- Support manufacturing operations by investigating and resolving supplier-related deviations, variances, nonconformances, and first article issues.
- Monitor supplier performance across quality, delivery, responsiveness, and manufacturing stability, driving improvement where gaps exist.
- Support uninterrupted production by proactively managing supplier risks and escalating critical issues appropriately.
- Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering
- Bachelor's degree in Biomedical Engineering
- Bachelor's degree in Manufacturing Engineering
- Nice to have: 21 CFR Part 820
- Nice to have: ISO 13485