Supplier Development Engineer

Job Title: Supplier Development Engineer

Company: AISIN World Corp. of America

Department: Purchasing, SPTT – Mass Production Quality and Delivery

Location: Seymour, IN

Position Responsibilities

The incumbent is expected to perform the following functions that the company has determined are essential to this position:

• Reduce open SCARs (supplier corrective action requests) and missed shipments of suppliers to AISIN plants.
• Plan and select target suppliers through the verification of quality, delivery KPIs, and data.
• Reduce open SCARs (supplier corrective action requests) and missed shipments of suppliers to AISIN plants.
• Review contracts or other preproduction agreements between suppliers and AISIN for fair judgment.
• Assess suppliers through SPTT (readiness) audit or high-volume production trials.
• Organize and lead face-to-face or remote meetings to build cross-functional collaborative action team.
• Develop PFUS (problem follow-up sheets) and meeting minutes with actions, responsible persons, and timings required to resolve the issue in a timely manner.
• Lead and supervise improvements of quality and delivery of suppliers towards KPI targets utilizing processes knowledge and visual management techniques.
• Lead go-and-see on-site verifications to set clear path to achieve goals by establishing, completing countermeasures, and verifying effectiveness.
• Calmly, fairly, professionally, and respectfully, promote commercial and technical collaborations with suppliers and AISIN plants towards long-term trust and successes.

Required Skills and Abilities

Essential Skills and Experience:

• 5 years of experience in quality, industrial, or manufacturing, engineering role in a manufacturing environment.
• Ability to communicate with internal and external resources to establish trust.
• Ability to read and comprehend product drawings, datum schemes, and associate it to the controls in production processes to lead teams of suppliers and AISIN.
• Ability to report situations in writing to provide guidance towards next steps.

Beneficial Skills and Experience

• Experience with PPAP processes, Cpk evaluation and/or process validations.
• Six sigma or ability to assess process stability and analyze the root-causes of product concerns.
• Experience with Casting, Forging, Machining & Sintering, Stamping Injection, Heat Treat, Coating & Plating, and Assembly processes.
• Skilled in Microsoft Access from a database development standpoint.
• Experience with 2D & 3D CAD software.
• Experience in automotive industry with understanding of standard job functions and requirements within the industry.
• Experience in multi-cultural environment, preferably Japanese-based.
• Fluency in English with additional language skill in Japanese, Chinese, German, and/or Spanish.

Education/Training/Certifications

• Bachelor or Associate’s degree in Engineering, Engineering Technology, other Applied Science, or Purchasing supply chain management, or other non-technical area is acceptable based on proven technical skill, is preferred.
• Certificate or equivalent experiences of process capability, process control, launch management.

Travel Requirements

• Approximately 5-10 %
• Must be willing and available to travel to such locations and with such frequency as is necessary and desirable to meet business needs.

Work Environment Requirements

With reasonable accommodation:

• Must be able to operate a personal computer, telephone, and other office equipment.
• Must perform job duties onsite, when necessary, except those duties that are customarily or by their nature performed offsite (for example, offsite customer visits).
• Must be able to work effectively in a fast-paced environment.
• Must be able to work on multiple assignments at once, and complete assignments within deadline and budget (if applicable) with satisfactory quality.
• Must be able to operate as an effective team member.
• Must be committed to a high standard of safety and be willing and able to comply with all safety laws and all company safety policies.

Attendance/Work Hour Requirements

• Must maintain an acceptable attendance record.
• Must be willing and available to work weekends and holidays as necessary and desirable to meet business needs.