Senior Principal Supply Chain Engineer - HDD
Core
Partner with suppliers to evaluate, pilot, and scale new technologies, processes, and materials to improve cost, performance, quality, and time-to-market while strengthening supplier manufacturing capability, capacity, and resilience.
Role type
Senior Principal Supply Chain Engineer (Supplier Development & Innovation)
Builds
Scalable, cost-effective, and resilient supply chain solutions for HDD manufacturing
Domain
Hard Disk Drive (HDD) manufacturing, supply chain engineering, supplier development
Deliverable
infrastructure (supplier process optimization, technology enablement, cost reduction initiatives)
Required skills
Supplier technology evaluation, process optimization, cost modeling, root cause analysis, Lean/Six Sigma, data-driven problem solving, cross-functional collaboration
Preferred skills
Manufacturing technology introduction, value engineering, should-cost analysis, MBA
Technologies
Lean, Six Sigma, SPC, digitalization tools
Responsibilities
Partner with suppliers to evaluate and scale new technologies; Lead initiatives to reduce total cost of ownership through design-for-manufacturability; Assess and improve supplier capacity and technical readiness; Drive supplier operational maturity and resilience; Collaborate with internal teams to align priorities and execution; Promote continuous improvement methodologies across the supplier base.
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC with strategic supplier leadership
