Sr. Manager Supply Chain Engineering at Nextpower in Huangpu

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Job Description: Job Description The Senior Supply Chain Engineering Manager role provides technical leadership for battery systems, supplier engineering, and contract manufacturing, while supporting commercial sourcing and contracting activities. This role serves as the primary supply chain technical interface among Supply Chain, Product Engineering, Quality, Project Execution, contract manufacturers, and strategic battery suppliers. The position translates product and project requirements into supplier specifications, manufacturing plans, qualification criteria, quality controls, capacity requirements, and scalable production solutions, and provides technical input to sourcing strategies and commercial decisions led by Supply Chain leadership. Success in this role is measured by technically qualified battery supply and contract-manufacturing capacity, robust enclosure-integration processes, improved quality and throughput, effective mitigation of technical and operational risk, and on-time delivery of safe, compliant, and cost-effective BESS products. Commercial success is enabled through accurate technical assessments, requirements, and recommendations. Essential duties and responsibilities include, but are not limited to the following: Provide technical leadership and engineering input for battery cells, modules, battery management systems, and related components in support of sourcing strategies led by Supply Chain leadership. Lead the identification, assessment, qualification, and development of battery suppliers and contract manufacturers capable of integrating battery equipment into containerized enclosures at required quality, volume, and schedule levels. Translate battery-system designs, bills of material, drawings, process requirements, test specifications, and regulatory requirements into clear RFQs, statements of work, technical schedules, and manufacturing requirements. Lead technical evaluation of supplier proposals and manufacturing solutions for design compliance, process capability, capacity, quality systems, test coverage, manufacturability, and lifecycle risk; provide technical findings to support commercial evaluation of cost, lead time, localization, warranty, and logistics. undefined Support Supply Chain leadership in commercial negotiations and contracting by defining technical deliverables, acceptance criteria, capacity assumptions, tooling requirements, change-control provisions, warranty inputs, intellectual-property considerations, and technical performance metrics; commercial ownership and final negotiation authority remain with the designated commercial lead. undefined Lead contract-manufacturer readiness reviews covering facility capability, line layout, tooling, fixtures, material flow, labor planning, work instructions, traceability, training, production controls, and end-of-line testing. Coordinate industrialization and launch activities, including prototype builds, pilot runs, first-article inspections, production-part approvals, ramp plans, capacity validation, and transition to serial production. Partner with Engineering and Quality to establish critical-to-quality characteristics, incoming inspection plans, in-process controls, test coverage, configuration management, serialization, and manufacturing quality plans. Ensure battery handling, storage, assembly, testing, packaging, transportation, and enclosure-integration processes meet applicable safety, environmental, regulatory, and customer requirements. Resolve supplier and contract-manufacturing issues involving design interpretation, component availability, workmanship, nonconformance, yield, throughput, field feedback, and corrective action. Drive value engineering, design-for-manufacturing, design-for-assembly, and design-for-supply-chain initiatives to reduce total cost, improve manufacturability, shorten lead time, and increase production scalability. Develop technical recommendations for dual-source, regionalization, and continuit