Littelfuse is one of America’s Best Mid-Sized Companies (Forbes) and has been named one of the Best Places to Work in Illinois (Best Companies Group) for 11 consecutive years. With its global headquarters in Chicago, Illinois, USA, Littelfuse is a leading, global manufacturer of electronic components serving more than 100,000 end customers across industrial, transportation, and electronics end markets. We have more than 17,000 employees with operations in 15 countries. From semiconductors to sensors… switches to fuses and more… we produce billions of electronic components that help our customers empower a sustainable, connected, and safer world. In 2021, Littelfuse had net sales of $2.1 billion.
Reporting to the Supplier Development Manager you as a Supplier Development Engineer will be responsible to ensure robust material quality through solid material qualification process, Drive and improve supplier performance Quality Incident, Supplier DPPM.
Work with and support Procurement’s strategy in establishing supply base that is capable to meet the requirement from various BU across entire company.
Early involvement to support the activities that are related to supplier and material.
Support supplier and material related changes from category management perspective.
Identify worst performed supplier, work with the affected supplier to develop and implement “get-well” plan, until supplier improve the performance.
Develop and build good relationship with supplier.
Support customer PPAP requestablish robust material qualification process.
SDE metrics (NPD Incident Rate, Critical Risk Supplier List, Supplier on-site audits, Category DPPM)
Track metric performance.
Work with supplier & internal cross-functional teams to drive and implement improvement actions.
Support and work with plant SQE in ensuring consistent material quality supply to operations.
Bachelor or university degree in Engineering.
Minimum 5+ years experience in Supplier Quality / Supplier Development.
Experience with ISO - IATF and familiar with 5 core tools --FMEA, APQP, PPAP, SPC, MSA.
Knowledge on VDA 6.3 auditing.
Ability to analyze.
Advanced knowledge of MS Office and basic knowledge of SAP.
Good follow up skills.
Good communication skills both written and oral.
Result oriented.
Problem solving skills.
Attention to details.
Green belt training.
Black belt (desired).
Proficient English - 85% minimum (reading, writing, speaking, listening).
Littelfuse strives to empower associate growth and development in a culture of ongoing collaboration and respect for diverse global perspectives and expertise. Our Core Values – Customer Focus, Integrity, Innovation, Teamwork and Results Driven – supports us on our mission to improve the safety, reliability, efficiency, and performance of our customers’ products and systems.
We are an equal opportunity employer that takes pride in giving every associate the means and courage to make a difference – everywhere, every day.
We offer a competitive salary package and a variety of benefits, including Medical Insurance, Grocery Bonus, Life Insurance, Dental Care plan as well as development opportunities like internal Lean Six Sigma Certification.
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Littelfuse is an industrial technology manufacturing company empowering a sustainable, connected, and safer world. Across more than 15 countries, and with 17,000 global associates, we partner with customers to design and deliver innovative, reliable solutions. Serving over 100,000 end customers, our products are found in a variety of industrial, transportation, and electronics end markets—everywhere, every day. Headquartered in Chicago, Illinois, United States, Littelfuse was founded in 1927.
View our broad and deep product portfolio:
https://www.littelfuse.com/
Littelfuse has had a long-standing commitment to ensuring a diversified workforce through equal employment opportunities. Maintaining a diversified workforce is critical to the success of our organization.
Each associate receives equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, religion, creed, sex (with or without sexual conduct), marital status, national origin, citizenship, ancestry, age, physical or mental disability, medical condition, order of protection status, military status, sexual orientation, gender expression or identity, genetic information, unfavorable discharge from military service, and any other protected class under federal, state or local law
