Littelfuse is one of America’s Best Mid-Sized Companies (Forbes) and has been named one of the Best Places to Work in Illinois (Best Companies Group) for 11 consecutive years. With its global headquarters in Chicago, Illinois, USA, Littelfuse is a leading, global manufacturer of electronic components serving more than 100,000 end customers across industrial, transportation, and electronics end markets. We have more than 17,000 employees with operations in 15 countries. From semiconductors to sensors… switches to fuses and more… we produce billions of electronic components that help our customers empower a sustainable, connected, and safer world. In 2021, Littelfuse had net sales of $2.1 billion.

The Supplier Development Engineer reports directly to the Senior SDE Manager. This role will support EII Projects in Northamerica for PMR (Relays Plant), the Supplier Selection & Qualification projects driven by the PUR team, escalations on Supplier Quality Incidents as will be leading Supplier Development activities such as: Safe Launch programs, Supplier Risk Management, Continuous Improvement Plans, Surveillance Quality System Audits.

About the job:

• On site audit – risk assessments to new and current suppliers; work with supplier to develop capable and stable manufacturing processes
• Category management – Work with and support Procurement’s strategy in establishing supply base that is capable to meet the requirement from various BU across entire company
• Critical risk supplier – identify worst performed supplier, work with the affected supplier to develop and implement “get-well” plan, until supplier improve the performance
• Supplier engagement – develop and build good relationship with supplier
• Establish robust material qualification process (PPAP) to ensure all materials are properly qualified before release for production – New material and engineering changes
• SDE metrics: Supplier Quality Incident, Supplier DPPM; Audit Schedule Hit Rate; Audit Average Score]
• Work with supplier and internal cross-functional teams to drive and implement improvement actions
• Supplier scorecard monitoring
• Category management – Work with and support Procurement’s strategy in establishing supply base that is capable to meet the requirement from various BU across entire company
• New Product Development – Early involvement to support the activities that are related to supplier and material
• Engineering change – Involve, review and approve supplier and material related change

About you:

• Engineering degree
• Minimum 5 years of experience in Supplier Quality / Supplier Development
• Experience with ISO, IATF 16949 and core tools --FMEA, APQP, PPAP, SPC, MSA
• Knowledge to VDA 6.3 auditing is a must
• Ability to analyze
• Advanced knowledge of MS Office and basic knowledge of SAP
• Able to handle multiple tasks efficiently and shift priorities as necessary
• Good organizational skills
• Good communication skills both written and oral
• Result oriented
• Advanced Problem-solving skills
• Bilingual Spanish-English