Reporting to:
Global Procurement Manager
Run What Runs the World
At ABB, we help important industries outrun - leaner and cleaner.
Every person here makes that happen. By rethinking, rewiring, and improving, we combine the world’s best minds and technologies to elevate performance to a whole new level.
Because at ABB, progress is an expectation - for you, your team, and the world. As a NPI Component Sourcing Engineer , you’ll take on challenges that transform industries and drive innovation. We give you the market-leading expertise, technology, and opportunity, and you own the challenge to make an impact that matters.
It won’t always be easy. Growing takes grit. Innovating takes the courage to try, fail, learn, and succeed. But at ABB, you’ll never run alone.
Your Role: Own the Challenge/Take on the Journey

• Develop category technical strategies to advance part selection and sourcing decisions, doing component CBOM cost review and technology review, align up to date supplier base technology roadmaps, manufacture capabilities and market trends with ABB internal product strategies and business requirements.
• Primary technical responsibility for commonization of components and specifications to optimize the components selection process for all PAPCP product design, supporting to develop components library for common materials, parts and specifications to be used in future platform product design. Provide technical leadership to the organization in problem resolutions, mega changes, supply disruptions or during implementation of new material technologies.
• Act as component application expert to assist global hardware and firmware design engineers in global new product development process component selection/debugging and qualification activities, conduct supplier technological assessment and audit. Drive global product family components 2nd source strategy implementation, replacement release/qualification and add into AML for mass production to mitigate long term supply chain risks. Maintain component database with new component addon and update, lifecycle maintenance, monitor and mitigate obsolescence issues within major development programs to minimize LTB. Support components sample purchase/testing for prototype, alpha, pilot runs and support initial production to meeting project schedule. Lead technical analysis for PCN/PDN change process, including raw material, design and process change. Identify and evaluate potential risks which may affect function, ability and reliability, develop reliability qualification plan according to change points and impacts, assist product team risks assessment and risk mitigation/verification plan.
• Lead structured problem solving in critical components quality issues, including component quality issues, application issues, design issues, supplier manufacturing (fab/assembly/testing) defect issues. Drive zero defect initiatives, drive 8D and corrective actions with suppliers. Implement and follow up tasks related to SCIP/Reach/RoHS/Ex/UL. etc certification for global products.

What it takes to Run what runs the world

• Minimum Education Level: Technical Bachelor’s degree or equivalent
• Minimum 5years practical experience in electrical components engineering or hardware engineering, proven experience in industrial business area is an advantage.
• Good functional/technical knowledge of electronic components such as electrical and electromechanical components and semiconductor technology. Good understanding of business practices, market dynamics and trends. Good negotiation, communication, interpersonal and influencing skills International mindset and can work in a global team
• Fluent written and spoken English
• Excellent in office software incl. Excel, PPT, Power BI etc.
• Ability to work independently in a virtual, remote environment

Why ABB?
A global market leader redefining industries through technology and expertise.

• Results that matter—what we run here, runs the world.
• Autonomy & Ownership—we trust you to implement solutions.
• Run What Runs the World—join a team that drives progress forward.
• Apply by: [Closing Date, if applicable]
  

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