Senior Principal Supply Chain Engineer – HDD

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🏄 California – Remote

🏄 California – Remote

💵 $140.3k - $187k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🔗 Supply Chain

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Western Digital

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10,000+ employees

Founded 1970

🏭 Manufacturing

📦 Logistics

💼 Consulting

💰 $900M Post-IPO Equity on 2023-01

Manufacturing • Logistics • Consulting

Western Digital is a leading manufacturer of data storage solutions, including solid state drives (SSDs), hard drives (HDDs), USB flash drives, and memory cards. The company provides a broad range of products for various uses, such as gaming, video surveillance, and data backup. They also offer solutions for data centers, network-attached storage (NAS), and digital photography. Western Digital is renowned for their innovation in developing storage technologies that meet the needs of both consumers and businesses.

📋 Description

• Partner with suppliers to evaluate, pilot, and scale new technologies, processes, and materials • Serve as a technical interface between suppliers and internal engineering, manufacturing, quality, and procurement teams • Identify and drive supplier-led innovation opportunities aligned with product and supply chain roadmaps • Lead initiatives to reduce total cost of ownership through design-for-manufacturability, process optimization, automation, yield improvement, and lifecycle cost analysis • Evaluate trade-offs across cost, quality, risk, sustainability, and scalability • Support should-cost modeling and fact-based negotiations • Assess and improve supplier capacity, scalability, and technical readiness • Drive improvements in supplier operational maturity, including process capability, equipment readiness, workforce skills, and digitalization • Strengthen supplier resilience through dual sourcing, risk mitigation, and recovery planning • Improve process capability, reduce variability, and prevent quality escapes • Lead root cause analysis and corrective action for systemic supplier issues • Promote Lean, Six Sigma, and SPC methodologies across the supplier base • Support supplier sustainability initiatives involving environmental impact, energy efficiency, waste reduction, and responsible sourcing • Collaborate with engineering, manufacturing, quality, procurement, finance, and program management teams • Communicate complex technical and supply chain topics to technical and non-technical stakeholders • Influence alignment and results across organizational boundaries

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Mechanical, Material Science, Electronics, Physics, Chemical, Supply Chain, Operations, or a related technical field • Extensive experience in supply chain engineering, manufacturing engineering, supplier development, or related roles • Experience working directly with suppliers on technical, operational, or cost-reduction initiatives • Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with a data-driven mindset • Ability to travel domestically and internationally as needed • Preferred: Master’s degree and MBA in a related technical field • Preferred: Experience introducing new manufacturing technologies or processes into production • Preferred: Background in cost modeling, should-cost analysis, or value engineering

🏖️ Benefits

• Paid vacation time • Paid sick leave • Medical, dental, and vision insurance • Life, accident, and disability insurance • Tax-advantaged flexible spending and health savings accounts • Employee assistance program • Supplemental life and AD&D insurance • Legal plan • Pet insurance • Critical illness insurance • Accident and hospital indemnity insurance • Tuition reimbursement • Transit benefits • Applause Program • Employee stock purchase plan • WD Savings 401(k) Plan • Eligibility for bonuses under WD’s Short Term Incentive Plan or Sales Incentive Plan • Potential eligibility for Long-Term Incentive program, including restricted stock units or cash equivalents • Potential eligibility for equity awards for eligible new hires • Remote work arrangement • Domestic and international travel as needed