Supply Chain Engineer

Supply Chain Engineer

Position Summary: The Supply Chain Engineer applies engineering principles to optimize supplier performance, ensure robust component design integration, and strengthen the technical capability of EControls’ global supply base. This role serves as a technical bridge between suppliers, internal engineering teams, and operations to ensure world-class quality, delivery, and cost performance. The position supports new product development, cost-reduction initiatives, and continuous improvement through analytical rigor and hands-on supplier engagement.

Employment Type: Full Time-Salary

Key Responsibilities

• Own and develop global supplier partnerships with a strong technical focus, ensuring suppliers meet engineering, quality, and production requirements
• Apply engineering analysis to identify, validate, and implement cost-saving opportunities across materials, processes, and supplier designs
• Serve as the technical supply chain representative in new product development, ensuring manufacturability, design intent, and supply readiness throughout the product lifecycle
• Act as a point of escalation for buyers and quality engineers, providing engineering-based problem solving to resolve supplier issues
• Interface directly with supplier engineering teams to communicate technical specifications, drawings, PPAP requirements, and design changes
• Review and approve pricing changes using engineering cost models, value analysis, and process capability insights
• Lead cost-reduction projects using engineering tools such as DMAIC, PFMEA, root-cause analysis, and should-cost modeling
• Collaborate with Product Engineering, Manufacturing Engineering, Quality, and Application Engineering to resolve supplier technical issues
• Develop and execute supplier contracts and agreements that include technical performance clauses, quality expectations, and design requirements
• Manage RFQ processes by evaluating supplier capability, process flow, manufacturing feasibility, and technical risk
• Participate in design gate reviews to assess supply feasibility, validate assumptions, and align engineering and supply chain constraints
• Drive alignment of DFMEA and PFMEA documentation between suppliers and internal engineering teams
• Submit Manufacturing Equipment Requests (MERs) for supplier tooling and provide technical justification

• Coordinate with Business Management to evaluate product lifecycle cost models and technical risks
• Analyze MOQs, process capability, and supplier capacity models to improve pricing and reduce inventory
• Support supplier payment accuracy by ensuring technical delivery conditions align with contractual terms
• Lead technical contract reviews and ensure supplier adherence to engineering, quality, and timing requirements
• Develop and track supplier project timing based on engineering and validation processes
• Build and maintain RASIC charts and technical open-issues lists to ensure timely execution
• Identify engineering or process-related roadblocks and drive corrective actions

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering (Mechanical, Electrical, Industrial, or Systems) required
• Master’s degree in Mechanical or Electrical Engineering preferred
• Strong understanding of automotive design, validation, DVP&R timing, and supplier readiness requirements
• Demonstrated proficiency in manufacturing processes, supplier capability analysis, and process improvement methodologies
• Knowledge of quality systems including PPAP, APQP, inspection methods, Safe Launch, and process validation
• Proven ability to influence cross-functional teams without direct authority

Preferred Skills

• Experience developing engineering project plans using Microsoft Project or similar tools
• Strong mechanical aptitude with working knowledge of fuel systems, electromechanical components, or sensors
• Understanding of internal combustion engine operation and related component requirements
• Motivated, self-sufficient, adaptable, and technically diverse

Location & Compensation:

• San Antonio, TX
• Pay: $90,000 - $125,000
• Full Benefits Package

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