Supplier Development Engineer

New Flyer is North America’s heavy-duty transit bus leader, providing sustainable mobility solutions through transit buses, technology, and infrastructure. New Flyer is a subsidiary of NFI Group, a leading independent bus and coach manufacturer and a leader in electric mass mobility solutions. Building on its 90+ year legacy of innovation, New Flyer is the only manufacturer offering all three types of zero-emission transit buses, with over 1,900 zero-emission buses delivered to date. Proudly serving all 25 of the largest transit agencies in North America, New Flyer actively supports over 35,000 heavy-duty transit buses currently operated by approximately 500 agencies.

Position Summary

The Supplier Development Engineer (SDE) – Plant Quality will act as first line of defense for supplier quality issues in our manufacturing facilities that are requiring additional support or escalation. The SDE primary responsibility will be to assist with getting the...

As Supplier Development Engineer, you are expected to support all activities that ensure a continuous flow of parts supply to our NA Plants. In addition, this role must also attempt to minimize costs. During supplier development and technical assistance missions, the engineer must choose the right approach, depth, focus, techniques and lessons learned, in order to properly address situations. Each supplier development opportunity may be unique.

Core responsibilities:

• Actively engaged with suppliers and supply chains

• Ability to accurately assess supplier weaknesses and provide solutions

• Monitor high risk supplier development issues in order to prevent crisis at our operations

• Drive and develop supplier problem solving techniques for identified supplier fault issues

• Fix and develop supplier production systems and processes to prevent impact operations

• Drive supplier operational excellence

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We're looking for a Supplier Development Engineer to join an amazing team at a great company!

As Supplier Development Engineer, you are expected to support all activities that ensure a continuous flow of parts supply to our North America Plants. In addition, this role must also attempt to minimize costs. During supplier development and technical assistance missions, the engineer must choose the right approach, depth, focus, techniques and lessons learned, in order to properly address situations. Each supplier development opportunity may be unique.

Core responsibilities include:

• Able to analyze supplier capacity and supplier investment requests

• Actively engaged with Volvo/Mack suppliers and supply chains

• Ability to accurately assess supplier weaknesses and provide solutions

• Monitor high risk supplier development issues to prevent crisis at our Volvo operations

• Drive and...

The Supplier Development Engineer (SDE) – Plant Quality serves as the frontline guardian against supplier quality challenges within our manufacturing facilities, providing essential support and escalation when needed. The primary focus of the SDE will be to ensure timely responses from suppliers while coordinating on-site assistance as required. Working hand-in-hand with plant Supplier Quality (SQ) teams, the SDE will play a pivotal role in identifying, investigating, and swiftly resolving quality issues, thereby upholding NFI’s high-quality standards.

In addition, the SDE Plant Quality will facilitate the First Article Inspection (FAI) process and manage on-site supplier support as necessary. This role also involves overseeing the implementation of containment measures and ensuring thorough follow-ups and resolutions for Supplier Corrective Action Notices (SCANs/8Ds) and Supplier Chargebacks. In this vital position, your analytical skills and ability to effectively...

POSITION SUMMARY:

The Supplier Development Engineer (SDE) is responsible for improving NFI Group Supplier Performance to a new standard; this includes, New Coach Launches, Supplier Resourcing, Supplier Audits, Supplier Continuous Improvement activities and current production.  SDE will support Production, Quality, Engineering, Strategic Sourcing/Commodity Management, Advanced Purchasing in initiatives to take Supplier Performance to a new level that is consistent with NFI Group’s brands, growth, and market leadership position.

The SDE is also responsible for Supplier Development in support of the NFI Group Supply Management initiatives. Those initiatives include: supplier quality and delivery improvement, supplier assessment/selection, supplier readiness, and eliminating waste in the supply chain.

This role involves 50% to 75% travel.

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