Littelfuse is one of America’s Best Mid-Sized Companies (Forbes) and has been named one of the Best Places to Work in Illinois (Best Companies Group) for 11 consecutive years. With its global headquarters in Chicago, Illinois, USA, Littelfuse is a leading, global manufacturer of electronic components serving more than 100,000 end customers across industrial, transportation, and electronics end markets. We have more than 17,000 employees with operations in 15 countries. From semiconductors to sensors… switches to fuses and more… we produce billions of electronic components that help our customers empower a sustainable, connected, and safer world. In 2021, Littelfuse had net sales of $2.1 billion.
Reporting to Sr. Quality Manager, you as a Sr. Supplier Development Engineer will be responsible for …
About Job:
- Category management – Work with and support Procurement’s strategy in establishing supply base that is capable to meet the requirement from various BU across entire company
- New Product Development – Early involvement to support the activities that are related to supplier and material
- Engineering change – Support supplier and material related changes from category management perspective
- On site audit – risk assessments to new and current suppliers; work with supplier to develop capable and stable manufacturing processes
- Critical risk supplier – identify worst performed supplier, work with the affected supplier to develop and implement “get-well” plan, until supplier improve the performance
- Supplier engagement – develop and build good relationship with supplier"
- Robust Material Qualification:
- Establish robust material qualification process [e.g.; PPAP] to ensure all materials are properly qualified before release for production – New material and engineering change
- Material Qualification / PPAP review and approval (Before SOP). Use PAF (Print Acceptance form) as driven by PUR, to ensure clarity in drawings/specs and reviews with suppliers
- Support customer PPAP request
- Timely completion and submission "
- SDE metrics [NPD Incident Rate, Critical Risk Supplier List, Supplier on-site audits, Category DPPM]
- Track metric performance
- Perform data/trend analysis – deep dive to identify root cause, source of issue and improvement opportunity
- Work with supplier & internal cross-functional teams to drive and implement improvement actions"
- Supplier quality and supplier performance management during Safe Launch period
- Support and work with plant SQE in ensuring consistent material quality supply to operations
- Support plant SQE on supplier and material issues for incidents related to product design and during PPAP and safety launch period
- Work with Procurement on supplier score card monitoring
About You:
- Minimum 5+ years experience in Supplier Quality / Supplier Development
- Experience with ISO/TS - IATF and familiar with 5 core tools --FMEA, APQP, PPAP, SPC, MSA
- Knowledge on VDA 6.3 auditing
- Ability to analyze
- Advanced knowledge of MS Office and basic knowledge of SAP
- Able to handle multiple tasks efficiently and shift priorities as necessary
- Good organizational skills
- Good follow up skills
- Good communication skills both written and oral
- Result oriented
- Problem solving skills
- Attention to details
- Green belt training
- Black belt [desired]
- Proficient English - 85% minimum. (reading, writing, speaking, listening)