Senior Sourcing Engineer

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• Monitors and drives supplier performance in the areas of total cost, capacity, capability, quality and location and drives corrective action to bring in line, informs management and escalates if personal attempts fail.
• Drives and supports continuous improvement of suppliers (3CQL, flexibility, lead-time, initiatives, etc.).
• Initiates or supports supplier selection and qualification efforts of new suppliers.
• Delivers on their accountability to the global commodity team and sourcing pipeline priorities/commitments.
• Collaborates with peers in alignment with Commodity& Sourcing Strategy.
• Assess and support the sourcing of new suppliers of alternate material sources, capability, capacity, or processing methods to meet business requirements, specifications, capacity, and quality and cost objectives.\u00A0 Conduct periodic audits.
• Understands researches and develops existing, or identify new suppliers to achieve material, volume, location, capacity.
• Support supplier selection and supplier audits efforts as required.
• Drive closure to performance deviations with the supplier and recover costs related non-conformance, late deliveries, and general areas of non-performance that breach Lairds contract with the supplier.
• Implement supplier changes, monitor their success, and make adjustments as needed
• Familiarizes themselves and maintains required knowledge level to be successful with new technology.
• Achieve cycle time reduction on operations with vendors by using Laird\u2019s Processes and personnel to achieve targets.
• Collaborates and drives cost roadmaps to maintain a competitive advantage in our marketplace.
• Direct improvement activities and communicates with remote design teams and customers to meet project milestones.
• Participate actively in project or annual material and cost reduction programs, including ownership for supplier negotiations.
• Research technologies or methods to minimize costs and improve efficiencies in the supply chain.
• Monitor established metrics for the role, projects or business and provide periodic summary.
• Implement local sourcing policies to meet established needs.
• Work with design engineering and quality to improve supplier base and certifying new suppliers.
• Facilitate SC integration by understanding Laird\u2019s cost structure and suppliers and help in reducing redundant activities.
• Communicate capital expenditures involving new technological innovations, which promote Laird\u2019s engineering expertise

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