Supplier Development Engineer

Description

Hitachi energy is seeking a remote Hub Supplier Quality and Development Engineer. This role is responsible to ensure customers satisfied with PGTR products via applying risk-oriented quality assurance methodologies and necessary supplier improvement initiatives to achieve on-time and on-quality delivery of the supplier parts/materials. Complete quality audits, surveillance, and the inspections at supplier manufacturing locations. Perform supply quality issue resolution for escalated suppliers. Lead the supplier performance tracking for each BU/HUB category. Lead the supplier performance improvement actions for the targeted suppliers. Implement and sustain PG/PGTR supply quality procedures within the BU/HUB’s. Ensure the appropriate utilization of the SBM tools.

Your Responsibilities:

• Supplier Qualification: Support Category teams within the supplier qualification process through evaluating the supplier.
• qualification assessment forms and recommending the appropriate qualification level.
• Ensure the supply base is and remains fully qualified and compliant through regular monitoring and the reporting of the qualification status.
• Supplier Assessment (On-site Audits): Plan and conduct the required supplier on-site audits including the assessment reporting (with qualification decision), corrective action plan alignment with the suppliers.
• Follow-up and confirm the effective closure of corrective action plan items by the suppliers.
• Supply Base Compliance (for HUB SQEs): Participate in the SSDP (Supplier Sustainability Development Program) assessments.
• Conduct regular status update meetings with the suppliers and confirm the closure of corrective action plan items by the suppliers within the defined resolution time frame.
• Parts Qualification: PPAP process governance for BU/HUB Category parts/components (creation of category specific parts approval requirement standard)
• Lead the production part approval process for the high priority cases including the coordination of trial parts and first article inspection activities with the factory quality.
• Visualize the successfully completed PPAP’s at the global/regional level to all SCM/Quality community to avoid the duplication of the efforts.
• Supplier Issue Resolution, Non-Conformance, and Claim Management: Lead the non-conformity resolution process with the suppliers in case of the escalated technical issues from the factories and ensure the effective root-cause analysis and the countermeasure implementation by the suppliers.
• Lead the escalation of the suppliers to BU/HUB SQM in-case of the poor resolution of the identified issues.
• Supplier Performance Monitoring: Monitor and consolidate the supplier delivery and quality KPI’s, the critical nonconformities escalated from the factories.
• Ensure completion of annual Supplier Performance Evaluations (SPE) for the identified suppliers by the category management (including reporting per Category/HUB)
• Identify the critical supplier list per category and define the improvement target(s) per supplier.
• Plan/execute the supplier on-site assessment in case of a detailed process investigation is required.
• Share the supplier performance KPI’s and the critical supplier list regularly with the BU/HUB SCM and the Category Teams.
• Supplier Performance Improvement: Lead the supplier performance improvement actions for the targeted suppliers to meet the customer and the Hitachi Energy’s factories’ expectations (following DMAIC, A3 and/or 8D methodology).
• Lead the escalation of the suppliers to BU/HUB Category Management in-case of uncollaborative suppliers.
• Process and Systems Compliance: Implement PG/PGTR supply quality procedures within the assigned responsibility area.
• Develop/issue the specific supplier and part/material quality procedures for the related category.
• Ensure the appropriate utilization of the SBM tools within the BU/HUB organizations and the local units.
• Monitor and ensure the supplier performance data, the supplier quality costs and the claims are reported according to PG/PGTR guidelines and instructions.
• Interface with Category Management: Closely collaborate with the Category teams to support the implementation of Category strategy (CIPS) and provide recommendations from supplier performance and capability perspectives (e.g: support for the supplier classification, new supplier selection, onboarding or sourcing recommendation).
• Interface with the Suppliers: Represent the “voice of customer” to the suppliers during the supplier audits and as well as other remote activities and follow-up (e.g: interface with suppliers’ engineering, operations and quality senior management).
• Quality Projects: Complete special quality and continuous improvement projects such as Advanced Product Quality Planning, Lean Six Sigma, supplier manuals, etc. in line with the yearly BU SQ targets.
• Lead and execute the assigned Dynamic Evolution projects for the corresponding categories (including the team establishment, necessary preparation to pass each gate and tracking of benefit realization).
• Living Hitachi Energy’s core values of safety and integrity, which means taking responsibility for your own actions while caring for your colleagues and the business.

Your Background:

• Bachelor’s degree in an engineering-oriented discipline and minimum 5 years of relevant experience. 
• Candidate must already have a work authorization that would permit them to work for Hitachi Energy in the United States.
• Mechanical, Electrical, Chemical, or Industrial engineering degree, along with experience with managing supplier quality activities or project management.
• Experience with executing and delivering cost out projects and savings.
• Yellow or Green Belt with exposure to lean manufacturing concepts
• Experience working in projects using APQP (Advanced Product Quality Planning) methodology.
• This role will have <25% travel.