Job Description

Manages a team of engineers responsible for evaluating and qualifying supplier components at varying degrees of complexity and integration level. Leads supplier development initiatives, collaborating with design and procurement teams to enhance supplier capabilities and ensure seamless integration of components into product development. Ensures supplier readiness for New Product Introduction, monitoring team activities that support components and supplier processes are validated and production-ready before full-scale launch. Develops and enforces robust processes for managing non-conforming components, including quarantine, rework, and disposition strategies. Provides technical leadership on design changes, process optimizations, and supplier transitions, mitigating risk and ensuring minimal impact on production and quality.

Responsibilities

Key Responsibilities
Select and Qualify Components:
-Manages a team of engineers responsible forevaluating and qualifying supplier components at varying degrees of complexityand integration level, ensuring alignment with technical specifications,reliability standards, and lifecycle requirements.
-Provides technical and strategic direction oncomplex component reliability assessments, leveraging supplier data, industrystandards, and accelerated life testing methodologies to drive informeddecision-making.
-Partners with Supplier Quality, Supply Chain Security,and Test Engineering teams to establish robust qualification criteria, ensuringcomponents meet product performance, safety, and manufacturability standards.-Drives supplier-driven quality and processimprovement initiatives, reviewing manufacturing processes, materialtraceability, and process controls to enhance overall component consistency andreliability.
Supplier Engagement:
-Manages supplier relationships, ensuringalignment on technical specifications, quality expectations, and production commitmentsto support business objectives.
-Manages supplier audit processes, assessingproduction capabilities, process controls, and adherence to quality andsecurity management systems, driving improvements where needed.-Leads supplier development initiatives,collaborating with design and procurement teams to enhance suppliercapabilities and ensure seamless integration of components into productdevelopment.
-Executes strategies to improve supplierefficiency, yield, and overall product quality through continuous collaborationand performance monitoring.
New Product Introduction:
-Ensures supplier readiness for New ProductIntroduction (NPI), monitoring team activities that support components andsupplier processes are validated and production-ready before full-scale launch.-Leads supplier coordination efforts, aligningproduction plans with project timelines, demand forecasts, andmanufacturability requirements.
-Monitors pilot production validation efforts,ensuring that supplier manufacturing processes meet established quality, cost,and performance expectations.
Failure Analysis:
-Oversees the resolution of supplier-relatedquality excursions and failures, ensuring timely and effectivecorrective/preventive actions (RCA, CAPA).
-Leads failure analysis investigations on suppliercomponents, utilizing advanced analytical techniques (e.g., X-ray, scanningelectron microscopy [SEM], electrical testing) to determine failure modes andprevent recurrence.
-Defines and monitors key supplier qualitymetrics, including yield, defect rates, and overall performance, implementingdata-driven continuous improvement initiatives.
-Develops and enforces robust processes formanaging non-conforming components, including quarantine, rework, anddisposition strategies.
Cross-Functional Collaboration:
-Serves as the primary interface between internalstakeholders, facilitating alignment with Design, Operations, Quality, andProcurement teams.
-Drives cross-functional initiatives to enhanceproduct quality, reduce costs, and improve supply chain performance, ensuringbusiness objectives are met.
-Provides technical leadership on design changes,process optimizations, and supplier transitions, mitigating risk and ensuringminimal impact on production and quality.
-Develops and mentors a high-performingengineering team, fostering technical expertise, strategic thinking, andleadership capabilities to support long-term business success.
Core Responsibilities
Planning & Execution:
-Manages multiple medium- to large-scale projectsor initiatives across teams, ensuring timelines, deliverables, and budgets whenapplicable are monitored and met. Provides direction to teams on project work,setting priorities, and aligning with business needs. Guides teams on adjustingplans to accommodate resource or timeline changes.
Collaboration & Partnership:
-Drives cross-functional partnerships to align onexpectations and shared objectives across multiple teams. Coaches team membersto develop strategic relationships with business leaders, stakeholders, andexternal partners to foster collaboration and long-term success. Promotesinclusivity by actively seeking and listening to diverse perspectives, ensuringothers feel heard and respected.
Problem Solving:
-Provides direction to multiple teams onaddressing complex operational and/or technical issues as well as providingguidance on analyzing complex data and/or information to identify solutions.Reviews and provides insights into unresolved or critical issues, helping theteam to identify potential solutions.
Continuous Learning:
-Models engaging in continuous learning to deepenexpertise and stay ahead of industry trends, integrating best practices intostrategic planning. Leverages feedback to drive personal and team skillimprovements. Identifies skill gaps across teams, and empowers team members topursue learning and knowledge sharing opportunities that build their expertisein new areas and coaches them to apply learnings to advance the organization.Continuous Improvement:
-Drives team to collaborate on, develop, andimplement ideas to increase the efficiency and effectiveness of processes,protocols, and workflows within and across teams, providing oversight. Guidesteam to adopt new ideas for alternative approaches and methods and encouragesfeedback for continued improvement.
Performance and Development:
-Drives performance across teams by providingfeedback and coaching in alignment with performance management processes,guidelines, and expectations. Discusses development goals with team members,shares opportunities to facilitate career development, and ensures individualgoals are aligned with broader organizational goals. Develops and managestalent acquisition pipeline by leading candidate interviews, monitoringpromotion eligibility, and/or orchestrating talent resources.

Qualifications

Disclaimer:

Certain U.S. based or U.S. customer or client-facing roles may be required to comply with applicable requirements, such as immunization/occupational health mandates, and/or drug testing requirements.

Range and benefit information provided in this posting are specific to the stated locations only

US: Hiring Range in USD from: $126,200 to $264,100 per annum. May be eligible for bonus, equity, and compensation deferral.

Oracle maintains broad salary ranges for its roles in order to account for variations in knowledge, skills, experience, market conditions and locations, as well as reflect Oracle's differing products, industries and lines of business.
Candidates are typically placed into the range based on the preceding factors as well as internal peer equity.

Oracle US offers a comprehensive benefits package which includes the following:
1. Medical, dental, and vision insurance, including expert medical opinion
2. Short term disability and long term disability
3. Life insurance and AD&D
4. Supplemental life insurance (Employee/Spouse/Child)
5. Health care and dependent care Flexible Spending Accounts
6. Pre-tax commuter and parking benefits
7. 401(k) Savings and Investment Plan with company match
8. Paid time off: Flexible Vacation is provided to all eligible employees assigned to a salaried (non-overtime eligible) position. Accrued Vacation is provided to all other employees eligible for vacation benefits. For employees working at least 35 hours per week, the vacation accrual rate is 13 days annually for the first three years of employment and 18 days annually for subsequent years of employment. Vacation accrual is prorated for employees working between 20 and 34 hours per week. Employees working fewer than 20 hours per week are not eligible for vacation.
9. 11 paid holidays
10. Paid sick leave: 72 hours of paid sick leave upon date of hire. Refreshes each calendar year. Unused balance will carry over each year up to a maximum cap of 112 hours.
11. Paid parental leave
12. Adoption assistance
13. Employee Stock Purchase Plan
14. Financial planning and group legal
15. Voluntary benefits including auto, homeowner and pet insurance

The role will generally accept applications for at least three calendar days from the posting date or as long as the job remains posted.
Career Level - M3