Senior Supplier Development Engineer

Company: Cepheid
Location: Sunnyvale, CA
Posted on: December 2, 2019

Job Description:

Duties: Engineering and supplier facing role responsible for driving operational excellence with strategic partners in
alignment with corporate objectives. Identify, assess, and scale new and existing supply chain partners. Collaborate
with strategic partners to develop, track, and improve operational efficiencies, yield, and quality in coordination with
internal processes and functional departments. Evaluate and qualify suppliers based on selection criteria. Audit and
perform assessments (scorecard) at supplier sites. Establish, track, and trend key supplier performance metrics. Use
data analytics to make recommendations on actions. Identify, quantify, prioritize, and drive supplier improvement
projects. Review, approve, and release engineering change orders to suppliers. Develop and execute qualification
plans with engineering and manufacturing teams. Review, initiate, and represent supplier recommended design
changes to internal engineering teams. Understand and represent supplier capabilities to engineering teams during
program design changes / development. Drive requirements at supplier, while representing supplier capabilities within
the organization. Review, drive corrective actions, and approve supplier issues (non-conforming material, corrective
action requests, etc.). Provide input and update internal supplier selection and qualification processes.

Requirements: Bachelor's degree (willing to accept foreign education equivalent) in Engineering, Mechanical
Engineering, or closely related technical discipline plus five (5) years of experience in job or in tooling and mold design,
qualification and production engineering. Experience must include: Evaluation of Chemistry, Plastic, and
Electrical/Mechanical components and their functional application in manufacturing environment; and reverse
engineering components to identify manufacturing processes that impact functional performance; ISO and GMPMD
requirements assessments related to manufacturing facilities and processes; High volume electrical/mechanical
manufacturing processes, automated processes, manual assembly and functional tests, specifically related to plastic
injection molding parts[Tool Design & Manufacturing, Moldflow analysis, Cell automation set up, etc.]; Equipment
selection, operation, processing and tooling development; production OEE throughput, quality KPI management;
Functional management involving engagement with external and internal customers in supporting product
development.

Position requires 20-30% domestic and some international travel.

Send resume to melissa.emerling@cepheid.com and reference job title.

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