Engineer II-Supplier Development (Supply Chain)

Job Description

Overview

General Dynamic Electric Boat (EB) has a proud 126-year heritage of submarine building excellence and is confronted with an enormous challenge that has not been experienced by any generation since World War II. Restoring the capacity and capabilities of our U.S. Navy Submarine Force to historic levels while building the next generation of shipbuilders that will take this country well into the latter decades of this century.

To ensure that our critical mission of preserving our nation's freedom; a robust supply-chain of over 2700 suppliers needs to increase the throughput of material to an unprecedented level, while maintaining first time quality, meeting challenging technical specification, and compliance to proper record keeping to ensure delivery of submarines.

The Supplier Development Engineer is a newly created role, reporting to the Engineering Supervisor of Supply Chain Development and Risk Management. The Supplier Development Engineer serves as a key player in providing proper oversight of the supply base from a performance perspective (i.e. delivering part / products on time with first time quality, including the assurance of appropriate capacity and capability).

General Description of Position :

As part of the maritime industrial base (MIB)'s overall goals of increasing domestic shipbuilding capacity, the supplier development engineering (SDE) role brings a unique opportunity to work with various stakeholders from engineering, quality, program offices, and procurement across all levels of the business. In addition, this position will be highly visible to the overall NAVY strategies and opportunities in the supply base along with given opportunity to directly interface with various levels of government, third parties, and other assessment teams.

Successful candidates will collect and analyze cross-functional data inputs from all Supplier Management and Oversight (SMO) stakeholders to perform the annual critical supplier assessment (CSA). The supplier development engineer will identify issues causing poor performance, perform root cause analysis and develop corrective actions to increase supplier performance and throughput.

This dynamic and fast pace role in a growing environment will provide direct mentoring and guidance from the supplier development engineer supervisor and manager to foster additional opportunities within the organization.

• This role is located on-site in Groton, CT

Duties and Responsibilities :

The Supplier Development Engineer will work directly with SMO stakeholders (Supply Chain, Engineering, Quality, etc.) and suppliers to perform the following in support of completion of annual CSA assessments :

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