Overall Responsibilities:

• Maintain and manage good supplier relationships.
• Understand the business of manufacturing

o Procurement and Costing o Planning and Scheduling

o Processes and Systems

o Logistics

• Understand and assist the quality engineers to assure product quality requirements are implemented and maintained.
• Understand and assist the production engineers to assure tooling, product and production time frames are met.
• Continuous supplier negotiations that assure product and tooling costs are controlled and justified.
• Continuous supplier negotiations that assure production schedules are prioritized and maintained per Nextern production requirements.
• Review all tooling and product invoices to assure costs are accurate and justified
• Review all tooling and product quotes to assure costs, lead-times and materials are accurate and justified.
• Acknowledge and re...