Team Lead Supplier Development

Rockwell Automation•Mayfield Heights, OH

1d•Hybrid

About The Position

Reporting to the Sr. Manager, Supplier Development, the primary function of the Team Lead, Supplier Development will be to manage the Supplier Development Engineering team, including workload distribution, while also managing personal Supplier Development Projects. You will establish team goals and priorities, and ensure commitments are met. You will establish a partnership with Strategic Sourcing important partners, ensure alignment with RASCII, set strategy, standard processes, and do performance evaluations and feedback for the supplier development team. You will have direct reports outside of the U.S. (Mexico, Asia, Europe).

Requirements

Bachelor's degree
Must have legal authorization to work in the US. We will not sponsor individuals for employment visas now, or in the future for this job opening.

Nice To Haves

Minimum 8 years of experience in areas of manufacturing, engineering, or quality
Lead teams
Supplier performance management or continuous improvement
Lean 6 Sigma
Black Belt certification and Project Management Professional certification
Bachelor's degree or equivalent years of experience
People coaching/leadership experience
Strategic thought processes

Responsibilities

Identify, and lead to completion, any development projects at Rockwell's critical and strategic suppliers. This is broken down into two areas: 1) Developing and Onboarding new suppliers to Rockwell's requirements and capability expectations, and 2) Improving existing suppliers in areas of quality, cost, and technology.
The ability to adequately manage a team of Rockwell employees and supplier personnel is critical.
A function of developing suppliers involves training to Rockwell expectations and requirements. These trainings may be in interpersonal settings, on-site lecture-style, or virtually.
You will lead a broad range of development projects at suppliers in commodities of all kinds, SDEs are expected to have a high level of understanding of manufacturing environments, process flows, engineering and technical documentation.
The projects and trainings deployed by an SDE may directly involve a supplier's quality management system.
SDEs will generally rely on SQEs to perform surveillance audits of critical suppliers and inform SDEs of development work needed. However, SDEs may be consultants on supplier audits, and may also perform targeted audits for specific processes if necessary.
Communicate with suppliers on development projects, supplier support is crucial.
Monitor and evaluate supplier performance during a development project.
Promote and encourage partnership between suppliers and engineering, if necessary for the project.
Improve projects with suppliers.
Liaise and align with Sourcing and Product Quality throughout the supplier development lifecycle.
Conduct data-driven quality assurance planning.
Leverage predictive insights and translate them into action.
Identify opportunities to use data to improve.
Supplier Development Engineers support our customers by managing development projects at our suppliers.
You will typically work independently and provide guidance in Supplier Quality Assessment and Audit, Supplier Quality Risk Management, Process Control Evaluation/Approval, Part Qualification Process, Regulatory Interpretation, Understand Policy and procedures.
Additional areas may include; Cybersecurity (cybersecurity aspects of product and production -> software/intelligent devices SQE), Cybersecurity (HW SQE), Industry Standards (e.g., PCB, ISO 9001), Augmented Reality Tools, Quality Audit (Supplier Qualification and Approval), Process Control (Supplier design), Risk Remediation (reactive)
Typically provide technical guidance.
Risk Management is preventative and includes methods such as DFMEA and PFMEA.
Measurement Systems Analysis involves both lagging and leading indicators.
Process Capability Analysis is another important area.
Process Control Design is also crucial.
Additionally, (Cyber)security is important, when interpreting standards like ISA/IEC62443.
Intelligent Component/Software SQE, HW/ESW/SW Development Knowledge