Supplier Development Engineer

A Society Group, Inc. Greensboro , NC 27415

Posted 1 week ago

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
  • Set focused priorities to reach objectives
  • Work in accordance with the GTP processes, the Code of Conduct
  • Represent GTP at suppliers and escalate as needed to prevent crisis at our operations
  • Requirements

  • University degree required. Major in engineering or business management or supply chain management preferred
  • Supply chain (quality and development) and/or production experience
  • Preferably experience from the automotive or heavy commercial truck industry in supplier quality and capacity, manufacturing engineering, supplier development or crisis management
  • Strong problem solving, communication and teamwork skills
  • Strong accountability and project management for tasks without close supervision
  • Competence required for the position:

  • Act with strong sense of urgency and commitment
  • Able to handle uncertainty and the unexpected
  • Able to handle unfamiliar tasks, using previous experiences
  • Ability to multitask and manage workload efficiently and effectively
  • Ability to drive sense of urgency to suppliers focused on information, communication, and results. Provide direct & actionable feedback
  • Be customer focused
  • Provide timely information for accurate decisions
  • Able to create trustful relations and face reality, surface problems and support finding solutions
  • Strong collaboration and leadership skills
  • Able to execute in a complex regional organization
  • Anticipate bottlenecks, explore contingencies, and provide solutions
  • Benefits

    A Society is a next-generation consulting company within the consultant market that provides consultants, at the top of their game, access to the most attractive assignments within IT, Technology, R&D and Management. A Society is the consulting company of tomorrow, providing consultants and partners in the consultant market access to the most attractive assignments in the marketplace. The workforce of tomorrow values freedom, while also appreciating basic job security as well as a strong sense of community and connection to a network. We want to maximize the advantages of the consultant market for consultants and clients alike. We are passionate about our vision and maximize every individual’s capability to perform. Every relationship is unique and has to be treated as such in order to keep the passion alive.

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