Procurement Engineer

Who We Are:

We are driven by a passion to design and manufacture the highest quality grid-scale power converters available. Rooted in this passion, we provide our customers with inverters and DC/DC converters from 100 kW to 6 MW. EPC’s products are designed in house and manufactured in the USA. Power electronics are the core technology behind decarbonization. With major growth sectors such as renewable energy, energy storage, and electric vehicle charging, EPC is growing fast.

EPC is headquartered in Poway, CA, a community in Northern San Diego County, with additional manufacturing facilities in Greenville, SC and additional design offices in Helsinki, Finland and Eastern USA.

What We Do:

EPC is located in the center of a high-tech commercial park in Poway, CA to meet the demands of its rapidly growing customer base. We are focused on developing and manufacturing robust and reliable power conversion solutions to solve real-world customer problems, and doing it in a smaller, more powerful footprint than anything else available today. We enjoy what we do, and we encourage a creative, healthy, and highly collaborative environment. Our goal is to work together as a fun, creative, and professional team; learning from and encouraging one-another as we push the state of the art forward in power electronics.

The Role:

The Procurement Engineer will be responsible for the early involvement of procurement and suppliers in the product development/manufacturing process as well as monitoring current products to minimize the overall costs. Procurement Engineer will be one of the main interfaces to engineering from our procurement to ensure the latest technical innovations from the supply base are presented to our engineering team. Additionally, the Procurement Engineer will be at the forefront of working in design and development and interfacing with Commodity Managers on should-cost models and innovate ways to reduce costs during the design phase. Our Procurement Engineer will also be the main technical interface to our suppliers, ensuring compliance with our cost goals and technical innovations to ensure we are on the cutting edge of new technologies being invented in the supply chain.

Responsibilities:

• Early Procurement Involvement:

Engage in preliminary development. Be actively involved in the product development/manufacturing process as well as undertaking and pushing forward cost reduction measures (design to cost, target costing, standardization, key data, etc.) to achieve the target costs for materials and reduce the overall material costs by fulfilling the necessary functions. Closely aligned with our engineering community.

• Early Supplier Integration:

Include suppliers and conduct cost-benefit analysis workshops, innovation workshops and concept competitions with key suppliers to concentrate on the key functions of the components/projects. Optimize material cost through design to cost activities. Review’s material cost target.

• Analysis:

Initiate market observation, conduct and provide market information/analyses on international technology and price trends to obtain new suppliers and new technologies in the supply chain.

• Alignment of Strategy & Technology Roadmaps:

Introduce and follow up given cross-functional Procurement strategies to ensure the linkage of commodity strategies and technological market trends. Participate in sourcing strategies with the commodity manager.

• Strategy deployment:

Drive sourcing decisions with interface partners to incorporate technological know-how and safeguard security strategies. Drives cross-functional sourcing concept.

• Supplier Management:

Technology Assess and develop suppliers from the technological standpoint to concentrate on the best suppliers.

• Supplier Innovation:

Maintains a strong internal and external (e.g., suppliers) innovation network, to foster value creation through supplier innovations. Able to define and implement appropriate material field and related supplier strategies, e.g., development partnerships with highly innovative suppliers.

Experience Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering is required.
• 1-3 years’ experience with supplier interfacing, communication with supplier
• Ability to discuss designs with suppliers to optimize designs for manufacture and assess supplier capabilities.
• Ability to analyze material cost breakdowns and accuracy based on market values through strong analytical skills.
• Good communication, listening, good networking and negotiation skills are required.
• Self-determined and goal oriented, strategic, proactive and team player with the drive to implement changes.
• Ability to travel 20%

Benefits:

● 401(k) matching

● Dental and vision insurance

● Disability insurance

● Employee assistance program

● Flexible spending account

● Health insurance

● Life insurance

● Paid time off

● Tuition reimbursement

Salary: $125-$150

EPC Power is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.