Technical Lead - Value Engineering, Supplier Development
$80,000–$110,000 year
On-site · Jayuya, Jayuya, Puerto Rico
Job Summary
Lead Technical Cost Out (TCO) initiatives within a cross-functional team to deliver material and component cost reductions, supply resilience, and margin improvement. Responsible for technical analysis, specification optimization, alternate sourcing, and cross-functional execution while maintaining product performance, regulatory compliance, and supply continuity. Partner with Procurement, R&D, Quality, Operations, Strategy, and Finance to identify, validate, and implement cost optimization opportunities; lead cross-functional projects, coordinate sample builds and testing, support change control and qualification, and drive end-to-end savings handover to operations. Travel ~50%.
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical, Materials, Plastics, Chemicals, Packaging, or Manufacturing engineering or related field
- 5-8+ years experience delivering multi-million dollar value engineering savings
- Proven experience leading cross-functional projects end-to-end using structured project management methods
- Working knowledge of GMP, change control, deviation/CAPA concepts, and validation/qualification principles
- Travel required, approximately 50%
- Preferred: Experience in alternate sourcing and supplier qualification (APQP/PPAP) in regulated manufacturing, with end‐to‐end technical and procurement leadership delivering cost savings
- Experience translating technical changes into measurable business value, insourcing transitions and tech transfer activities
- Experience in value engineering and design for manufacturability
- Experience with cost modelling, should-costing or clean-sheet methodologies
- Lean / Six Sigma certification
- Applicants must be authorized to work for an employer in the U.S.
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