Senior Supplier Engineer

Company Overview

Embark on an enriching journey with PROCEPT BioRobotics, where our vision, mission, and values guide everything we do as a company. We are committed to revolutionizing treatment for benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH, otherwise known as prostate gland enlargement) through innovation in surgical robotics. As our company succeeds and grows, we improve the quality of life of patients, provide more effective treatment options for surgeons, uphold the trust of our shareholders. That starts with a commitment to our People with a focus on creating an evolving landscape for your career, brimming with transformative opportunities that provide continuous career growth opportunities.

The Opportunity That Awaits You:

The Senior Supplier Engineer is a key role responsible for ensuring that suppliers adhere to PROCEPT’s high standards for quality, service, delivery, and cost. This position is integral to maintaining the efficiency and reliability of the supply chain, supporting both new product improvements and ongoing sustaining activities.

Strategic Impact:

This role is crucial in ensuring that the supply chain remains robust and capable of supporting PROCEPT’s growth and product development goals. By driving continuous improvement and fostering strong supplier relationships, the Senior Supplier Engineer will help Procept maintain its competitive edge in the market.

In summary, the Senior Supplier Engineer will play a pivotal role in PROCEPT’s operations, ensuring that suppliers meet high standards and contribute to the successful commercialization of innovative products. This position offers a unique opportunity to influence Procept’s supply chain strategy and drive significant improvements in quality and efficiency.

What Your Day-To-Day Will Involve:

• Ensure suppliers meet PROCEPT’s requirements for quality, service, delivery, and cost. 
• Drive suppliers to improve business and manufacturing processes continuously. 
• Collaborate with Supplier Quality to evaluate and select suppliers. 
• Guide R&D in choosing suppliers for new products and provide DFM input to new designs. 
• Support both NPI and ongoing production by monitoring and working with suppliers to improve performance. 
• Execute detailed projects with suppliers to implement changes and improvements affecting quality, cost, capacity, risk, and sub-supplier management. 
• Manage supplier changes (for mechanical parts/assemblies), including manufacturing process changes, production optimization, facility changes, new equipment qualification, and new line validations. 
• Investigating and determining the root cause of latent and emerging design, manufacturing, or material defects. This may include owning and executing non-conformance closures and associated deliverables. 
• Apply engineering fundamentals and innovation to assess design/supplier changes, solve problems and learn quickly and creatively 
• Author engineering studies, FMEAs, and tolerance stack-up calculations to support design decisions 
• Select the right process and supplier for the part, considering long-term fit and total cost of ownership and drive cost reduction, capacity improvements, and risk mitigation type activities 
• Assess and qualify alternate raw materials or alternate suppliers to overcome supply chain shortages for continued or uninterrupted supply of mechanical parts/sub-assemblies by understanding the impact to overall product design and/or process 
• Assess and drive supplier qualification requirements and complete project/ part qualification deliverables, including Supplier pFMEA, Process Validations (IQ/OQ/PQ), Inspection Reports, Gage R&R, and Process Capability Analysis. 
• Build, own, and relentlessly pursue a vision for developing suppliers. This may involve visits and teleconferences with domestic and overseas partners. 
• Drive suppliers to continually improve their manufacturing process performance to meet Procept’s requirements for supplier excellence using a collection of best practices in project management, Six Sigma, Lean, SPC, and negotiation. Lead these efforts without managerial guidance at several suppliers simultaneously. 
• Implement corrective and preventive actions for supplier processes by driving supplier’s investigations and root cause analysis. 
• Develop supplier ramp readiness plans by judging business risk based on forecast, supplier capacity, quality performance, and process capability. 
• DFM by engaging suppliers early in development cycle to provide feedback regarding manufacturability improvements in the designs prior to production. 
• Influence and guide R&D in choosing suppliers by determining selection criteria for preferred suppliers and leading the team effort to evaluate preferred suppliers. 
• Effectively prioritize and advance multiple concurrent projects and tasks. 
• Research and recommend new technologies to improve reliability, efficiency and contribute to cost reduction. 
• Communicate business and technical needs, status, results, and observations to operating, technical and business teams. 

The Qualifications We Need You to Possess

• BS in Mechanical Engineering or equivalent with a minimum of 8 years experience. 
• Experience in leading highly technical projects in a cross-functional environment, both internally and with CMs/Suppliers 
• Demonstrable knowledge in evaluating and challenging supplier technical, quality, and business capabilities. 
• Extensive experience with root cause analysis and problem-solving for both technical and process issues. 
• Knowledge of CAD (SolidWorks or other) software, ability to read and interpret detailed mechanical drawings (GD&T), and communication of technical information. 
• Ability to interpret and understand the impact of purchased part changes, such as alternate raw material changes, supplier process changes, supplier tooling changes, etc., on the internal manufacturing process and design, develop, implement, and execute qualification test cases. 

The Qualifications We Would Like You to Possess

• Prior experience in the medical device industry is preferred. 
• Open to 20% travel, domestic and maybe international. 
• Onsite 3-4 days 

Understanding PROCEPT's Culture

At PROCEPT, we believe every person matters. Every employee, every patient, every caregiver. Because we are here to create a revolution, and we believe in doing that by innovating everywhere with pathological optimism. We believe in being humble and highly engaged in the work we do, while also working together seamlessly for a common goal. At Procept, curiosity, ingenuity and conviction in the power technology will transform the lives of our patients and providers.

And this doesn’t happen by accident. It starts with our live induction program that serves as an incubator for cross-functional team building, an immersion in Procept’s history, jam-packed interactive sessions with executive leadership and a crash-course in the mission and purpose of what we do. It continues with our one-of-a-kind management program designed to build the best managers in the industry, where our people managers across functions come together to exchange ideas and grow, as both managers and learners, in an environment that challenges, supports and broadens.

We are fueled by the opportunity to give people their lives back. And we believe that it begins with YOU! At Procept, we push beyond just finding a work/life balance, we strive to find a work/life blend, a professional world that you are honored and impassioned to belong to, one that you can proudly share with your family, friends, and acquaintances.

An opportunity at PROCEPT BioRobotics won’t just be about finding a job. It will be an opportunity for you to join a community devoted to making a difference in this world!

BENEFITS OF WORKING AT PROCEPT! 

PROCEPT’s health and wellness benefits for employees are second to none in the industry. As an organization, one of our top priorities is to maintain the health and wellbeing of our employees and their families. We offer a comprehensive benefits package that includes full medical coverage, wellness programs, on-site gym, a 401(k) plan with employer match, short-term and long-term disability coverage, basic life insurance, wellbeing benefits, flexible or paid time off, paid parental leave, paid holidays, and many more!

EQUAL EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY STATEMENT

PROCEPT BioRobotics is an equal opportunity employer that is committed to diversity and inclusion in the workplace. We prohibit discrimination and harassment of any kind on the basis of race, color, national origin, religion, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability, genetic information, pregnancy, age, or any other protected status set forth in federal, state, or local laws. This policy applies to all employment practices within our organization.

PAY RANGE TRANSPARENCY

Procept is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices. The pay range(s) for this role is listed below and represents base salary range for non-commissionable roles or on-target earnings for commissionable roles. Actual compensation packages are based on several factors that are unique to each candidate, including but not limited to job-related skills, depth of experience, relevant certifications and training, and specific work location. Based on the factors above, Procept utilizes the full width of the range. The total compensation package for this position may also include eligibility for annual performance bonus, equity, and the benefits listed above.

WORK ENVIRONMENT

We’ll provide you training for, and ask you to maintain trained status for, and comply with, all relevant aspects of the PROCEPT BioRobotics Quality Management System to ensure product and support regulatory compliance. We would also ask you to understand and adhere to the PROCEPT BioRobotics Quality & EHS policies.