Procurement Engineer Job Description
Procurement engineer
provides technical support to key customers in base station/broadcasting/Microwave RF Power areas both OEM accounts and distribution channel.
Procurement Engineer Duties & Responsibilities
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Sample responsibilities for this position include:
Reviews supplier product designs, processes, and activities for compliance with company manufacturing guidelines, quality processes, and standards
Communicates product and process issue analysis to procurement engineering leader and product team
Consult with engineering/R&D personnel to establish performance criteria and specifications for suppliers
Source and investigate potential suppliers and recommends suitable ones for NPI projects or existing products
Perform RFQ and total cost analysis
Work with our key suppliers to help improve their performance, competitiveness and capabilities
Drive a step change in supplier capability through the utilisation of continuous improvement techniques, structured interventions, risk mitigation and other action plans
Identify opportunities for innovation sharing, co-design/development utilising the relevant capabilities of both parties for mutual benefit
Drive step a step change in supplier performance through the utilisation of continuous improvement techniques, structured interventions, risk mitigation and other action plans
Responsible for the coordination of project materials flows, storage and distribution in accordance with company policies and procedures
Procurement Engineer Qualifications
Qualifications for a job description may include education, certification, and experience.
Licensing or Certifications for Procurement Engineer
List any licenses or certifications required by the position: RCCA, APICS, CPIM, CPM, ISM, CPSM, PMI, ISO, CIPS, NAPM
Education for Procurement Engineer
Typically a job would require a certain level of education.
Employers hiring for the procurement engineer job most commonly would prefer for their future employee to have a relevant degree such as Bachelor's and Master's Degree in Engineering, Technical, Education, Mechanical Engineering, Business, Science, Manufacturing, Electrical Engineering, Manufacturing Engineering, Graduate
Skills for Procurement Engineer
Desired skills for procurement engineer include:
CATS/FULCRUM
Cellular network architecture
MapInfo and PeopleSoft
DC power systems used in the telecommunications environment
Alcatel Lucent base station equipment
Microsoft Office and Project
Microsoft Project
Word
Ericsson base station equipment
Quality assurance
Desired experience for procurement engineer includes:
Primarily responsible for purchased product engineering oversight of commercial and custom electrical and electronic components
Establishes the confidence of, and effective influential authority with, vendors and suppliers as required to assure requirements compliance and uninterrupted delivery of high specification devices
Leverages technical competence to determine best outcome solutions and exercises familiarity with discrete components to facilitate continued source reliability
Establishes and maintains strong technical partnerships with National Laboratory counterparts to assure technical capability and neutralize potential risks and vulnerabilities with commercial, mil-spec and specialty type components
Utilizes routine to moderately complex engineering functions to enhance the technical credibility of candidate and development electrical commodities
Assists in the identification and/or procurement of new and alternative electrical components to drive continuous improvement, enable technical solutions and mitigate obsolescence impacts
Procurement Engineer Examples
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Job Description Example
Our innovative and growing company is looking for a procurement engineer. Please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications. While this is our ideal list, we will consider candidates that do not necessarily have all of the qualifications, but have sufficient experience and talent.
Responsibilities for procurement engineer
- Analyzes processes, products, and inspection results to anticipate, identify, and correct problems and to establish quality levels and trends
- Prepares product or project definitions, manufacturing drawings and specifications, and test equipment designs as appropriate
- Partners and collaborates with design, supply, process and customer stakeholders to drive excellence and surety in critical components for national security applications
- Approximately 25% travel associated with this role
- Manages aspects of the global engineering relationship with a key supplier of external hardware, components, materials, or services for the development and manufacturing of a product or service line
- Reviews and evaluates supplier product designs, processes, and activities for compliance with company manufacturing guidelines, quality processes, and standards
- Coordinate portions of the global engineering relationship with a supplier of external hardware, components, materials, or services for the development and manufacturing of a product or service line
- Review supplier product designs, processes, and activities for compliance with company manufacturing guidelines, quality processes, and standards
- Perform tests, troubleshooting, and engineering analysis of defective product units or sub-assemblies
- Communicate product and process issue analysis to procurement engineering leader and product team
Qualifications for procurement engineer
- Supports the in/outsourcing process
- Assessing as-is and to-be E2E supply chains, driving the request for quotation and supplier selection process together with commodity teams (incl
- Promoting early supplier involvement for better designs on cost and performance
- Leading and executing Design for Excellence (DfX) conventions, including “design for logistics” and “make or buy” or insource/outsourcing processes
- Optimizing physical distribution networks and improving customer service levels while optimizing the integral E2E physical distribution costs
- Acting as Global Supplier Manager for a strategic supplier
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Our growing company is hiring for a procurement engineer. Please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications. While this is our ideal list, we will consider candidates that do not necessarily have all of the qualifications, but have sufficient experience and talent.
Responsibilities for procurement engineer
- Reviews packaging material supplier product designs, processes, and activities for compliance with company manufacturing guidelines, quality processes, and specifications
- Work with RnD teams worldwide to meet each NPI build schedule by managing tooling fabrications, FAI, and qualifications
- Cost reduction by innovation and cost modeling
- Performs tests, troubleshooting, and engineering analysis of defective materials
- Works with global teammates and manufacturing partners to manage commodity DPPM performance
- Works with teammates across the region to implement quality improvement initiatives, and to reduce defects, improve quality, and meet organization goal
- Evaluates supplier capabilities to ensure production output can meet HP demand in both normal and abnormal supply conditions
- Supplier process audit and part quality audit
- Responsible for early involvement of procurement experts and suppliers in product development process, taking into account applicable cluster strategies and suppliers
- Identifies and implements optimization levers, taking into consideration strategic procurement requirements (Cluster Manager, Buyer)
Qualifications for procurement engineer
- A strong team player and able to work with people from different levels of the organization
- Have background in Electronic Components Technical Specifications/Functions (Passive/Active Components)
- 1 to 3 years working experience in Electronic Components Engineering/ Procurement /Supply Chain/ Analyst / New Product Introduction particularly from an Electronics Manufacturing Industry
- Available to an overlapping working hours with USA CT(Central Time Zone)
- Bachelor’s degree in mechanical/manufacturing engineering required
- Experience, 7-10 years of supplier manufacturing/development experience required
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Our company is hiring for a procurement engineer. If you are looking for an exciting place to work, please take a look at the list of qualifications below.
Responsibilities for procurement engineer
- Conducts cost-benefit analyses and organizing innovation workshops to reduce material cost identifying and assessing supplier cost structures (best practice)
- Ensures that cluster strategies and market trends correlate
- Supports OU/OSU activities to harmonize scopes of supply/services and/or cost improvement projects while implementing BA/OU/OSU and PSM strategies
- Involved in OU/OSU projects of operating units to provide support and provide optimum input, , on prices, offers, bills of material, and savings potentials
- Evaluates and develops suppliers from a technical point of view (if required, together with cross-functional interface partners) to ensure steering of volumes towards best suited suppliers
- Initiates market monitoring, evaluation of new technologies and production trends to identify new suppliers and technologies
- Manages benchmark data base/QAF data pool cost estimation software
- Coordinate and support purchasing processes including requisition information through the issuance of PO’s through the OneSRM tool
- Supplier quality performance measurement and reporting to senior management
- Resolve quality issues quickly and effectively
Qualifications for procurement engineer
- Ability to interpret mechanical drawings, electronic schematics, including inputs, outputs, and operation
- Experience assessing cost and/or buying engineered components
- Demonstrated knowledge of purchasing processes to include supplier selection techniques, request for quote, cost analysis, negotiation and sourcing decision
- Experience working with large ERP systems (SAP MM preferred) and/or cost estimation software
- Demonstrated assessment and negotiation skills, including preparation and knowledge of levers
- Strong business acumen and analytical skills including technical capability
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Our growing company is looking for a procurement engineer. Thank you in advance for taking a look at the list of responsibilities and qualifications. We look forward to reviewing your resume.
Responsibilities for procurement engineer
- Collaborate with MPAs on supplier development/ management (quality tracking, resolution, cost improvement and assurance of supply)
- Focal point for performance and corrective action for materials used in products and MPA escalations
- Evaluate supplier capacity to meet production requirements and their quality maturity
- Manage complex business issues, build availability and End-Of-Life management at MPAs
- Collaborate and communicate with management, internal, and outsourced manufacturing partners regarding NPI, current products, project progress, and issue resolution
- Lead and/ or provide expertise to functional project teams and participates in cross functional activities
- Exercise independent judgment within broadly defined policies and practices to determine best method for accomplishing work and achieving objectives
- Analyzes data to help support market base research to aide in risk mitigation, prevention and affordability objectives
- Investigates and recommends potential suppliers based on assessments of response to specifications, costs, inspection of facilities, and historical performance external data sources, both open and structured data
- Provide recommendations and path forward for supplier risk and/or cost reduction activities in support of affordability and/or performance targets
Qualifications for procurement engineer
- Help establish a enabling strategic and tactical decisions that are most effectively used data sources and resources/tools
- Establish a cost effective training program to aide training supply chain professionals in data analytics and interpreting data patterns to bring data structure and intelligence to the supply chain professionals
- Assist in tool development/enhancements of data analytics approaches to aide the supply chain in preventing risk and/or negotiation saving objectives
- Perform market base research to bring insight for supply chain teams and executives on specific organizational focus areas
- Perform other assignments as directed to assist the organization and/or business area to achieve business objectives
- 5+ years of experience in a high volume assembly-type industry in supply chain related functions
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Our company is looking for a procurement engineer. We appreciate you taking the time to review the list of qualifications and to apply for the position. If you don’t fill all of the qualifications, you may still be considered depending on your level of experience.
Responsibilities for procurement engineer
- Contribute to the development of an effective set of cost models to track “target cost” status for assigned product
- Maintain updates to the costs for assigned product/module and ensure that cost models are up to date and information is available as required
- Orders tools and samples related to new product development
- Lead the development of an effective set of cost models to track “target cost” status for assigned product
- First point of escalation for delivery/quality issues, at line, factory level
- Management of supplier Concessions, reduction plans and performance indicators
- Management of supplier Quality Notifications, supplier responses, reduction plans and performance indicators
- Driving supplier Quality Improvement Plans within the Function to achieve department targets
- Management of supplier 8D immediate customer protection within 48 hours and 90 day closure
- Investigation and escalation of supplier Notification of Escapes
Qualifications for procurement engineer
- Professional skills in Microsoft Office and Procurement tools
- Improves processes and systems
- Identify and solve problem areas
- Generate add value solutions
- Develop/execute technical management plans
- Participate/lead projects