Procurement Engineer-Asia Supply ChainProcurement Engineer-Asia Supply ChainTracking Code3100Job Description
Procurement Engineer-Asia Supply Chain, Esterline Advanced Input Systems
Esterline welcomes people who share our determination and high standards to join us in doing work that moves the world forward. We design, manufacture, and market highly engineered products and systems principally for the aerospace and defense markets. Esterline Advanced Input Systems, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Esterline,designs and manufactures touch, sensing, and control solutions (complex control panels, user interface systems, and touch technology integration) for Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs) in the medical, gaming, industrial, marine, transportation, and defense industries. We provide end-to-end solutions with complex product range and low cost of ownership for specific customer applications. Advanced Input Systems has a demonstrated record of incorporating any user-input and display technology in thousands of input systems for more than 1,000 companies.
We cooperatively develop products through customer outsourcing initiatives. These diverse projects allow Advanced Input Systems to identify, develop, manufacture, and support solutions for the entire product life-cycle.
Advanced Input Systems currently has an opening for a Procurement Engineer-Asia Supply Chain.
Company Profile
Company Name:Advanced Input Systems, a subsidiary of Esterline Technologies Corporation
Number of Employees:350
Job Overview
Title:Procurement Engineer-Asia Supply Chain
Job Family:Engineering
Reports to:Director Asian Operations
Works with:Works with managers, supervisors, customers and individual employees.
Location:Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, United States
Type: Exempt
Grade:E4-E5(depending upon experience)
Job Summary
Performs a wide variety of procurement engineering assignments at an intermediate to high degree of complexity with little direction from peers and supervisors. Considerable latitude for independent action and decision. Responsible for successful development start up and on-going quality at the supplier level.
Primary Responsibilities
Responsible for the mechanical/electromechanical design of products including the following:
* Assists in performing costing activities as required through Sales.
* Works with limited guidance on complex engineering activities including mechanical/electromechanical design studies, electrical interfaces, cost analysis and project coordination.
* Assists in the development and maintenance of design standards.
* Responsible for cost reduction recommendations.
* Responsible for coordinating sourcing risk assessments and establishing mitigation plans.
* Responsible for coordinating supply chain development/improvements.
* Support specification of components and materials.
* Collaborate with development teams, manufacturing, customers and suppliers to ensure highly manufacturable designs are released to suppliers.
* Provide expedient technical support to all areas of the company where required.
* Create and maintain good internal and external relationships.
* Drive quality improvements and manage assigned Corrective Action Requests.
Qualifications
* Ability to establish sourcing and tooling strategies, and execute to that strategy.
* Ability to communicate effectively both verbally and written, with customers, vendors, and factory personnel.
* Ability to manage multiple projects.
* Willingness, ability and desire to travel.
* Experience with analyzing multi-part mechanisms and mechanical/electromechanical assemblies.
* Ability to conduct root cause analysis and report on findings.
* Good problem solving skills with solution orientated results.
* Set-up and conduct process capability analysis including statistical analysis and DOE.
* Set-up and conduct measurement system analysis.
* Ability to communicate quality requirements and inspection findings effectively with suppliers.
* Understanding of LEAN initiatives.
* Must be able to work effectively with minimal supervision.
* Relies on extensive experience and judgment to plan, execute and achieve goals.
* Identifies, evaluates, selects and manages the technical development for assigned commodities.
* Establishes a team approach to supplier, commodity, cost management and problem resolution.
* Ability to fully interpret and evaluate fabricated parts drawings.
* Past experience in plastics, metal fabrication and rubber molding.
* Experience with CAD Date exchange programming.
* Significant breadth with material sciences.
* Basic understanding of cost accounting.
* Familiarity with ISO 9000 practices.
* Familiarity with Reliability Engineering methodologies including worst case, stress, durability analysis and HALT.
* Past experience working with suppliers in Asia.
* Ability to speak Chinese (Mandarin).
Esterline Competencies
Must meet the Esterline competencies as it relates to all employees.
Education Requirements
Minimum BSME, BSMfgE or BSIE with 5 years of applicable work experience or equivalent experience in an electronic manufacturing environment.
Work Hours
Monday-Thursday, 7:00am-4:30pm and Friday 7:00am-11:00amJob LocationCoeur d\'Alene, ID USPosition TypeFull-Time/Regular
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