Senior Supply Partner Development Engineer

Volvo Group Purchasing is a team of changemakers that thrive in a fast-paced and exciting business environment. We are a truly global team with real passion for innovation, sustainability, and people, and where lifelong learning is an essential part of our culture. With our ecosystem of supply partners, we shape the world we want to live in and deliver value to our customers, society, and the Volvo Group.

Our Offer To You

Volvo Group offers the opportunity to work in a dynamic and team-focused environment in a company that is well known for its state-of-the-art company culture and benefits. Our culture is about how we interact with each other, our customers, and with society as a whole. It helps us to achieve our business objectives, is firmly rooted in our history, and is critical to our company’s long-term success. It is the foundation on which everything else is built.

Volvo Group is defined by a set of five carefully chosen values, which include Customer Success, Trust, Passion, Change, and Performance. These values are a major force in guiding our day-to-day behavior and drive our decision making at all levels of the organization. Our values are easy to understand, and yet fundamentally important. They express our shared beliefs across countries and entities to form the basis for a high-performing culture that can help maximize the full potential of the organization.

To work with us is to work with some of the world’s most iconic brands, and to be part of a reputation that has been earned for over a century. It is our responsibility to honor that heritage and build an even stronger future for our company moving forward. Each of our individual actions collectively define who we are as a company and how the world sees us.

Would you like to be a part of our team and join us on our journey?

What You Will Be Doing

As a Senior Supply Partner Development Engineer (SPDE) for Group Trucks Purchasing (GTP) North America, you will be part of the Supply Network Resiliency (SNR) group, and you will be responsible for driving and managing the performance of your supply partners. You will be part of a team of supplier development colleagues focused on improving performance of our network of supply partners through the implementation of industry best practices and lean manufacturing techniques. You will focus on providing strong supplier technical assistance. The supplier concern areas are heavily focused on unhealthy production systems, lack of technical resources, and an inability to find quick and sustainable solutions when production processes become abnormal. Primarily, the mission is to assess manufacturing and supply chains, provide recommendations, and implement improvement actions.

You will be supporting all activities that ensure a continuous flow of parts supply to our North America plants. In addition, this role must also attempt to minimize costs to Volvo. During supplier development and technical assistance missions, the engineer must choose the right approach, depth, focus, techniques, and lessons learned, in order to properly address situations. Each supplier development opportunity may be unique. You will also promote a strong collaboration between Supply Partner Development and the rest of SNR and GTP NA. This extends globally thereby capitalizing on global knowledge and competence sharing within SNR.

Our Supply Partner Development (SPD) team is a dedicated group responsible for ensuring that Volvo Group North America has adequate performance, capacity and flexibility throughout the supply chain. Our function requires developing suppliers, which includes all phases of product lifecycle, from project phase, to start of production, and to aftermarket. The SPDE also assists with supplier delivery crisis situations to mitigate impacts and secure deliveries to the Volvo Group production and aftermarket sites.

This position will be based out of our Greensboro, NC headquarter location and will report to the Head of Supply Partner Development Purchasing North America.

Core responsibilities:

• Ability to analyze supplier capacity and performance/efficiency
• Actively engage with Volvo/Mack supply partners
• Ability to accurately assess supplier weaknesses and provide solutions
• Monitor risks related to supplier performance and capacity to prevent issues to Volvo operations
• Drive and develop supplier problem solving techniques for identified supplier issues
• Fix and develop supplier production systems and processes
• Drive supplier operational excellence
• Work in accordance with the GTP processes, the Code of Conduct and the Volvo Way
• Represent GTP at suppliers and escalate as needed to prevent crisis at our Volvo operations

What We Are Looking For

• Supply chain (quality and development) and/or production experience
• Experience from the automotive or heavy commercial truck industry in supplier quality and capacity, manufacturing engineering, supplier development or crisis management
• Lean manufacturing knowledge and experience
• University degree in Engineering
• Strong problem solving, communication and teamwork skills
• Strong accountability and project management for tasks without close supervision
• Ability to prioritize tasks in a fast-paced environment
• Customer focused mindset, dedicated to meet external and internal customer expectations
• Desire to work in a collaborative team towards a common purpose
• Strong integrity and creativity
• Flexibility and preparedness to travel with short notice

Compensation/Benefits

• Competitive base salary
• Company bonus
• Comprehensive health benefits
• 401(K) with company match, as well as additional automatic company contribution
• Culture with a passion for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion for all
• Flexible work environment
• 5 - 6 weeks of annual vacation
• Global organization with expansive career growth opportunities
• Volvo Group University for professional and personal development
• Workplace health/wellness, and reimbursement programs
• On-campus fitness center and café