- Plan, coordinate, and conduct supplier process audits to ensure that necessary process controls are in place during supplier assessment visits or on-going supplier management
assessments.
- Understand the supplier's current capabilities and potential new capabilities in manufacturing process and communicate to purchasing, engineering, and quality personnel.
- Identify the supplier process gaps and drive process improvement as appropriate.
- Finalize and follow up the development plan by working with supplier, NPD, AQE, FAI, SDE, OPM, Sourcing and any concerned expert teams.
- Follow up NPD/Localization project in an early stage like Design For Manufacturing Review and Critical Dimensions Assessment to have robust action to ensure a smooth transition from engineering samples to mass production.
- Maintain and update the supplier process development plan to match the new product development needs.
- Communicates difficult concepts such as process improvements and changes and negotiates with others to effectively influence as appropriate.
- Involve failure analysis and advise technical to the manufacturing team for driving effective investigation.
- Provide weekly status updates or report to the project team, or daily updates if there is
needed.