Job Description :

IBM is looking for a highly motivated teammate ready to play a key role as a Supply Chain Engineering.

• As a Supply Chain Engineering Professional at IBM, you’ll get to work on the systems that are driving the quantum revolution and the AI era.
• Join an elite team of engineering professionals who enable IBM customers to make better decisions quicker on the most trusted hardware platform in today’s market.

Your Role and Responsibilities :

We are seeking dynamic and hardworking engineers with a growth mindset to enable our teams and suppliers to deliver quality products. Are you seeking an opportunity that helps you grow your career at an equal opportunity company like IBM?

• This role entails working with technical teams encompassing suppliers, development, and manufacturing on early product development, qualification, quality management, and also for ongoing production support.
• Will enable your growth in several aspects of supply chain engineering such as qualification, technology convergence, environmental compliance, process improvements, manufacturing assembly, manufacturing test, and quality support such as production yields, field performance, tooling, changes, and product delivery.

This role focuses on leading and developing technology roadmaps, communicating technical specifications, and driving continuous quality improvement.

•  Work closely with development, manufacturing, and project management teams to implement performance, quality, and cost improvements. Work with project plans and timelines and communicate status to all stakeholders/partners
• Seek out new and capable suppliers in support of product and business needs. Assess suppliers for their ability to fit IBM’s quality and business standards.
• Lead and support supplier audits by ensuring compliance with the quality management system and regulatory requirements.
• Have the drive and resilience to work towards tackling complex issues using structured problem-solving techniques.
•  Implement cost optimization techniques to meet cost reduction objectives across all commodities and brands.
•  Implement technical improvements for product design, manufacturing engineering fulfillment, system test, and supplier process issues using root cause analysis and corresponding corrective and preventive actions.
• Opportunity to work on implementing leading-edge data analytics tools, 3D Printing, Augmented Reality, and blockchain technology to improve IBM’s supply chain.

Possible Locations Include (Based on demand): Poughkeepsie NY; Rochester MN; Research Triangle Park, NC; San Jose, CA.

Required Technical and Professional Expertise :

Excellent written/verbal communication skills along with excellent interpersonal skills

Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise :

• Experience in leading teams, resolving difficult technical and/or process problems
• Experience in performing Quality Audits

About Business Unit :

• IBM Systems helps IT leaders think differently about their infrastructure. IBM servers and storage are no longer inanimate – they can understand, reason, and learn so our clients can innovate while avoiding IT issues.
• Our systems power the world’s most important industries and our clients are the architects of the future. Join us to help build our leading-edge technology portfolio designed for cognitive business and optimized for cloud computing.