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.
The Supplier Development Engineer reports directly to the Senior SDE Manager. This role will support EII Projects in Northamerica for PMR (Relays Plant), the Supplier Selection & Qualification projects driven by the PUR team, escalations on Supplier Quality Incidents as will be leading Supplier Development activities such as: Safe Launch programs, Supplier Risk Management, Continuous Improvement Plans, Surveillance Quality System Audits.
About the job:On site audit – risk assessments to new and current suppliers; work with supplier to develop capable and stable manufacturing processes
Category management – Work with and support Procurement’s strategy in establishing supply base that is capable to meet the requirement from various BU across entire company
Critical risk supplier – identify worst performed supplier, work with the affected supplier to develop and implement “get-well” plan, until supplier improve the performance
Supplier engagement – develop and build good relationship with supplier
Establish robust material qualification process (PPAP) to ensure all materials are properly qualified before release for production – New material and engineering changes
SDE metrics: Supplier Quality Incident, Supplier DPPM; Audit Schedule Hit Rate; Audit Average Score]
Work with supplier and internal cross-functional teams to drive and implement improvement actions
Supplier scorecard monitoring
Category management – Work with and support Procurement’s strategy in establishing supply base that is capable to meet the requirement from various BU across entire company
New Product Development – Early involvement to support the activities that are related to supplier and material
Engineering change – Involve, review and approve supplier and material related change
Engineering degree
Minimum 5 years of experience in Supplier Quality / Supplier Development
Experience with ISO, IATF 16949 and core tools --FMEA, APQP, PPAP, SPC, MSA
Knowledge to VDA 6.3 auditing is a must
Ability to analyze
Advanced knowledge of MS Office and basic knowledge of SAP
Able to handle multiple tasks efficiently and shift priorities as necessary
Good organizational skills
Good communication skills both written and oral
Result oriented
Advanced Problem-solving skills
Bilingual Spanish-English
Skills Required
- Engineering degree
- Minimum 5 years of experience in Supplier Quality / Supplier Development
- Experience with ISO, IATF 16949 and core tools
- Knowledge of VDA 6.3 auditing
- Advanced knowledge of MS Office and basic knowledge of SAP
- Bilingual Spanish-English
Littelfuse Compensation & Benefits Highlights
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Retirement Support — A 401(k) plan includes a company match with an additional annual contribution, with plan details also referenced in corporate filings. This structure indicates dependable retirement support across U.S. roles.
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Wellbeing & Lifestyle Benefits — A Lifestyle Spending Account and tuition reimbursement, plus wellness resources and an Employee Assistance Program, expand the package beyond core insurance. Development programs such as Lean Six Sigma certifications reinforce a holistic rewards mix.
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Healthcare Strength — Core medical, dental, and vision coverage are standard and described as solid and workable. Coverage breadth is supported globally with EAP access.
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What We Do
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
