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Component Engineer
eTeam Inc.
🇺🇸 United States
On-site
1 month ago
$70 – $93 / hour
1 month ago
Job Title: Component Engineer
Duration: 12 months
Location: Sunnyvale, CA
Description:
- Support New Product Introduction (NPI) programs by working with suppliers and cross-functional teams to ensure material readiness, quality, and manufacturability.
- Support early-stage material procurement activities, including supplier engagement, technical readiness assessments, and execution of prototype and development builds.
- Communicate technical requirements, specifications, drawings, quality expectations, and inspection requirements to suppliers.
- Review and disposition non-conforming materials through Variance Requests (VRs), utilizing technical judgment and risk-based decision making.
- Review First Article Inspection Reports (FAIRs), inspection methods, measurement systems, fixtures, and tooling to ensure compliance with requirements.
- Understand manufacturing processes for mechanical, electrical, or electromechanical components and identify process risks, failure modes, and opportunities for improvement.
- Investigate supplier quality and manufacturing issues, perform root cause analysis, and drive Supplier Corrective Action Requests (SCARs) to effective closure.
- Understand and apply material traceability requirements, including the ability to trace supplier lots through incoming inspection, inventory transactions, production kitting, and finished product records.
- Support supplier qualification, process validation, and production readiness activities.
- Partner with suppliers to improve process capability, quality, manufacturability, and inspection effectiveness.
- Collaborate with Design Engineering, Manufacturing Engineering, Quality Engineering, Operations, and Supply Chain to resolve technical issues and support product launches.
- Develop commodity expertise in mechanical, electrical, or electromechanical components, assemblies, and manufacturing processes.
- Communicate technical issues, risks, and recommendations effectively to suppliers and internal stakeholders.
Component Engineer · eTeam Inc.