Senior Director of Engineering
About The Position
The Senior Director of Supplier Engineering leads a global, multidisciplinary technical organization responsible for building a resilient, cost‑effective, and innovation‑enabled supply chain. This role shapes and executes long‑range strategies that enhance supply continuity, scale engineering capability, strengthen supplier partnerships across regions, and ensure enterprise alignment. The position drives local and global collaboration, enables cost transformation, improves supplier readiness, and builds the Best Known Methods (BKMs) library deployed across the enterprise. A critical component of this role is the ability to present strategy to executive leadership, influence direction, and garner cross‑functional buy‑in across Engineering, Supply Chain, Operations, Finance, and Product organizations. Organization awareness and ability to influence others is crucial for this role.
Requirements
- 10 years of experience in Supplier Engineering, Manufacturing Engineering, Supply Chain Engineering, Product Development or related fields.
- Strong engineering foundation in semiconductor or high‑reliability systems.
- Proven ability to lead and influence cross‑functional global teams.
- Demonstrated results in supplier development, resilience building, and cost transformation.
- Executive presence, strong communication, and strategic influence capabilities.
- Experience presenting strategy to senior leadership and driving organizational alignment.
Responsibilities
- Define and execute the multi‑year strategy for Supplier Engineering aligned with BU priorities, product roadmaps, and Applied’s global supply chain objectives.
- Provide clear strategic direction to improve supply continuity, supplier capability, engineering quality, and cost structure. Requires strong cross-functional alignment with goals and objectives of the Varian and GSC AOP’s to enable corporate success.
- Influence executive leadership through data‑driven sourcing, capability, and risk‑mitigation recommendations.
- Present long‑range strategies, risk models, and capability roadmaps to executive leadership to secure support and resource alignment.
- Develop and lead multi‑sourcing strategies, regional supply models, technical capability roadmaps, and Business Continuity Planning (BCP). This includes a strong Single Point of Failure (SPOF) strategy development and execution plan.
- Drive proactive risk identification and escalation processes with Global Supply Chain.
- Collaborate extensively across Product Engineering, NPI, Commodity Management, Operations, Quality, Program Management, and Finance.
- Lead cross‑functional steering teams to synchronize supplier strategies and decision‑making.
- Align global and local supply chain teams to ensure consistent communication and execution.
- Drive organizational alignment and cross‑functional adoption of major initiatives.
- Lead and develop a high‑performance engineering team responsible for increasing supplier capability, manufacturability, and technical problem resolution.
- Establish technical standards, methods, and engineering expectations and dissemination into the organization.
- Support a robust cost‑reduction strategy via should‑cost modeling, specification refinement, process optimization and produce re-design via DFM.
- Enable and drive measurable year‑over‑year total landed cost improvements to meet overall BU AOP metrics.
- Build and scale a comprehensive BKMs portfolio including engineering standards, supplier readiness frameworks, and technical playbooks.
- Drive adoption through structured deployment and global training. Dissemination of learnings is critical to this role.
Benefits
- Supportive work culture that encourages learning, development, and career growth.
- Opportunities to take on challenges and drive innovative solutions.
- Empowerment to push boundaries and learn every day in a supportive leading global company.
- Programs and support for personal and professional growth.
- Care for employees at work, at home, or wherever they may go.
- Comprehensive benefits package.
- Potential eligibility for other forms of compensation such as participation in a bonus and a stock award program.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Director
Education Level
No Education Listed
