Supplier Industrialization Engineer, PCB

Key Responsibilities

• Own continuity of supply for printed circuit boards (PCBs) on the Starlink program.
• Collaborate with design, R&D, commercial supply chain, hardware reliability, and production teams to manage suppliers and deliver world class products.
• Support procurement team to strategically source parts matched with supplier capabilities by reviewing and assessing supplier manufacturing processes and quality systems.
• Identify, audit, and onboard new suppliers.
• Develop and implement supplier technical requirements and quality flow downs to meet hardware manufacturing needs.
• Implement and monitor production part approval process (PPAP) with selected suppliers to enable rate production.
• Ensure qualification and reliability activities at suppliers are in line with requirements.
• Develop and approve process controls to control critical characteristics.
• Recommend technical product improvements to reduce risk and opportunities for defects.
• Analyze supplier quality and delivery metrics to identify trends and pinpoint systemic performance gaps to drive supplier improvement plans.
• Provide feedback to suppliers on manufacturing methods, with a specific focus on eliminating costs, reducing cycle times, and increasing yields.
• Function as liaison between purchasing, engineering, manufacturing, and suppliers to resolve supplier quality issues and to provide technical support.
• Drive supplier root cause failure analysis and corrective actions associated with any quality gaps, escapes, or containments.
• Lead projects and present reports to internal teams, management, and/or suppliers.
• Act as internal owner of supplier’s statistical process control (SPC), yield improvement activities, new tool/process qualification, and performance in terms of quality, efficiency, and cost.

Requirements & Tech Stack

• Bachelor’s degree in an engineering discipline.
• Experience with printed circuit boards (PCBs), engineering laminates, electrochemical processes, and/or microelectronics fabrication (school projects, clubs, or internship experience is applicable).
• Willingness to work long hours and weekends when needed to meet critical deadlines.
• Ability to travel: Up to 25-60% travel required (domestic and international).
• Valid driver’s license.

Qualifications

• Advanced degree in engineering, business, or supply chain (preferred).
• Electronics manufacturing experience, preferably with PCBs for high-speed / RF applications (preferred).
• Working knowledge of supplier quality processes (PPAP, APQP, FAIR, RCCA failure analysis, lean methods, etc.) and quality systems (ISO 9000/TS/AS9100/NADCAP) (preferred).
• Knowledge of statistical techniques and methods, e.g., SPC, design of experiments, Six Sigma, etc. (preferred).
• Disciplined approach to problem solving – 8D (preferred).
• Experience with sharing information and influencing others across organizational lines, internally and externally (preferred).
• Ability to work in a fast-paced, cross-functional environment with minimal oversight and learn new skills on-the-job quickly and efficiently (preferred).
• Ability to identify and maintain priorities for tasks and projects while staying organized (preferred).
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, ability to make presentations to suppliers, team members and management (preferred).