Supplier Development Engineer

1 Month ago • 1-5 Years • Software Development & Engineering • $71,000 PA - $88,000 PA

Job Summary

Job Description

As a Supplier Development Engineer at Rivian, you will collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure Rivian's quality standards are met and to manage the quality performance of contract manufacturers. Your responsibilities will include engaging with suppliers for industrialization, supporting supplier selection and capability assessments, driving APQP discipline and PPAP requirements, developing and tracking industrialization project KPIs, evaluating and validating supplier manufacturing processes, optimizing supplier manufacturing scalability, monitoring supplier industrialization performance, facilitating problem resolution, and collaborating with various teams for cost optimization. This role requires up to 50% travel.
Must have:
  • Bachelor's degree in engineering or related field
  • 1-5+ years of supplier quality engineering experience
  • Knowledge of APQP, PPAP, FMEA, and CAPA
  • Technical expertise of automotive components
Good to have:
  • VDA 6.3 credentials
  • In-depth knowledge of IATF16949:2016 and ISO14001
  • Knowledge of ISO9001

Job Details

About Rivian

Rivian is on a mission to keep the world adventurous forever. This goes for the emissions-free Electric Adventure Vehicles we build, and the curious, courageous souls we seek to attract. 

 

As a company, we constantly challenge what’s possible, never simply accepting what has always been done. We reframe old problems, seek new solutions and operate comfortably in areas that are unknown. Our backgrounds are diverse, but our team shares a love of the outdoors and a desire to protect it for future generations. 


Role Summary

You will work alongside cross-functional teams to drive Rivian quality requirements and manage our contract manufacturers quality performance ensuring seamless scaling of production. Your contributions will directly impact the performance and quality of Rivian service parts, ensuring successful launches for new programs as proper management on current ones. This role is located in Normal, IL or Plymouth, MI or Atlanta, GA and reports to the Service Engineering Quality Organization.


Responsibilities

  • Engage with suppliers for industrialization and readiness for multiple automotive components.
  • Support supplier selection and capability assessment for both greenfield (new plant) and brownfield (existing plant expansion) projects, ensuring alignment with program timelines and quality expectations.
  • Drive APQP discipline and enforce PPAP requirements, ensuring suppliers meet dimensional, material, and performance validation before production approval.
  • Develop and track industrialization project KPIs, including PPAP on-time approval, process capability (Cpk/Ppk), first-pass yield, and PPM targets to measure supplier readiness.
  • Evaluate and validate supplier manufacturing processes by leading process audits, PFMEA reviews, control plan validation, and equipment capability/Run@rate assessments.
  • Optimize supplier manufacturing scalability, ensuring production lines are capable of meeting increasing volume and quality expectations during ramp-up phases.
  • Monitor supplier industrialization performance through KPIs such as on-time PPAP submission, process capability indices (Cpk/Ppk), defect rates (PPM), issue closure rate, and supplier corrective action effectiveness.
  • Facilitate problem resolution using structured methodologies (focused problem solving) to address defects, process deviations, and launch roadblocks proactively.
  • Collaborate cross-functionally with engineering, quality, and supply chain teams to drive VA/VE cost optimization, ensuring seamless design implementation into supplier manufacturing processes and technology while maintaining quality and performance standards
  • Up to 50% travel requirement

Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering, Supply Chain, or other related field
  • 1-5+ years supplier quality engineering experience
  • Strong Knowledge of Advanced Product Quality Planning (APQP), Production Part Approval Process (PPAP), Failure Mode and Effect Analysis (FMEA), Corrective and Preventative Actions (CAPA) development, Lean manufacturing, Traceability requirements
  • Technical expertise of automotive components designs and manufacturing, including knowledge of safety and test requirements and appearance approval process.
  • Knowledge of Geometric Design and Tolerancing (GD&T) and datum structures.
  • Experience in Extrusion and fabrication commodities.
  • VDA 6.3 credentials and understanding preferred.
  • In depth knowledge of IATF16949:2016 and understanding of ISO14001. ISO9001 is also a preferred knowledge set.

Pay Disclosure

Salary Range/Hourly Rate for Illinois Based Applicants: $71K-$88K (actual compensation will be determined based on experience, location, and other factors permitted by law).

 

Benefits Summary: Rivian provides robust medical/Rx, dental and vision insurance packages for full-time and part-time employees, their spouse or domestic partner, and children up to age 26. Full Time Employee coverage is effective on the first day of employment. Part-Time employee coverage is effective the first of the month following 90 days of employment.




Equal Opportunity

Rivian is an equal opportunity employer and complies with all applicable federal, state, and local fair employment practices laws. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, ancestry, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender expression, gender identity, genetic information or characteristics, physical or mental disability, marital/domestic partner status, age, military/veteran status, medical condition, or any other characteristic protected by law.

 

Rivian is committed to ensuring that our hiring process is accessible for persons with disabilities. If you have a disability or limitation, such as those covered by the Americans with Disabilities Act, that requires accommodations to assist you in the search and application process, please email us at candidateaccommodations@rivian.com.

Candidate Data Privacy

Rivian may collect, use and disclose your personal information or personal data (within the meaning of the applicable data protection laws) when you apply for employment and/or participate in our recruitment processes (“Candidate Personal Data”). This data includes contact, demographic, communications, educational, professional, employment, social media/website, network/device, recruiting system usage/interaction, security and preference information. Rivian may use your Candidate Personal Data for the purposes of (i) tracking interactions with our recruiting system; (ii) carrying out, analyzing and improving our application and recruitment process, including assessing you and your application and conducting employment, background and reference checks; (iii) establishing an employment relationship or entering into an employment contract with you; (iv) complying with our legal, regulatory and corporate governance obligations; (v) recordkeeping; (vi) ensuring network and information security and preventing fraud; and (vii) as otherwise required or permitted by applicable law. 

 

Rivian may share your Candidate Personal Data with (i) internal personnel who have a need to know such information in order to perform their duties, including individuals on our People Team, Finance, Legal, and the team(s) with the position(s) for which you are applying; (ii) Rivian affiliates; and (iii) Rivian’s service providers, including providers of background checks, staffing services, and cloud services. 

 

Rivian may transfer or store internationally your Candidate Personal Data, including to or in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, and the European Union and in the cloud, and this data may be subject to the laws and accessible to the courts, law enforcement and national security authorities of such jurisdictions.  

 

Please note that we are currently not accepting applications from third party application services.

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