Procurement Engineer

3 years exp

**Roles & Responsibilities**

Our client, an industry leader in the world's largest supplier of SMT equipment, located at Yishun has immediate vacancies for Procurement Engineer Salary Range: S$3,400-S$5,500 per month with other benefits).

**Role**:

- Representative of procurement from products’ design concept phase to pre-series production
- Through integration of market advancements into our development processes, he/she will optimize the time to market and the supply/logistics chains via quality/cost/delivery of materials
- From above optimizations, he/she will influence the maintaining of high capacities, timely product deliveries and total cost ownership, hence contributing to operating profit and competitivity of the organization

**Responsibilities**:

- Participate in key NPI project meetings attended by PM, R&D, PE/AP, PP, CM/OP, SQ, Make. Central person in procurement, cost optimization and cost reporting with series expectations.
- Monitor effecting of procurement processes as well as controlling of resources and activities in the support of quality, cost, and delivery requirements at NPI projects.
- Support product cost optimization at the management of procurement in key areas such as strategies, supplier nominations/selections, inquiries, negotiations, and drift cost calculations. This will also include recommendations to R&D on potential new technologies for the purpose.
- Organize the procurement of materials for prototyping and pre-series. Hence, coordinating the related departments and facilitating selected suppliers with necessary information, drawings, data sheets, STEP files, etc to ensure the alignment in costing and delivered materials.
- Support on Make/Buy decisions and multi-source procurement. This includes the coordinating of related departments and the risk minimization in supplier pre-selection through alignments at early project stages towards procurement via preferred series suppliers.
- Develop cross-functionally in contracts between product development and series productions through the coordination of commodity managers in preparations and negotiations.
- Monitor that procurement is compliant to pre-defined processes and required documentations, such as quality check related documents, are obtained and recorded.
- Recommend the promotion of material status from stages of manufacturing freeze until series. Hence, the close coordination of R&D, further internal departments, and external suppliers in ensuring the manufacturability of designed materials.
- Support in deliverables of purchases and the achievement of target costs at NPI projects.
- Organize for design to cost (DTC) or cost reduction processes via structural cost analyses, ensuring that target costs are feasible between suppliers and project adaptions.
- Organize internal/external communications to align project developments and DTC measures.
- Support the Advanced Purchaser in event of escalations during material orders/deliveries and complex engineering changes. This will include direct supplier coordination/communications.
- Knowledge transfer to commodity managers of materials from products’ pre-series production. Additionally, support in the transition from pre-series production to series production.
- Carry out any other assignments from the manager.

**Education and Language Requirements**:

- Degree/Diploma in Mechanical/Electrical Engineering or equivalent
- Proficient in English

**Other Requirements**
- Minimum 1 year of procurement and/or engineering related experience
- Professional experience in project management, BOM/costing/engineering analysis, & supply chain management
- Preferably has experience from Original Equipment Manufacturer or Contract Manufacturer
- Able to lead cross functional/cultural projects
- Possess strong presentation skills
- Possess strong problem-solving skills and able to think out of the box
- Ability to execute work with minimum error, and proactively improve while learning from mistakes

**HOW TO APPLY**:
Interested applicants, please submit your updated resume & a recent photo in MS Word format to:
OFFICE SECRETARIES PTE. LTD.