Supplier Industrialization Engineer Intern

Company Overview

Imagine a piloted air taxi that takes off vertically, then quietly carries you and your fellow passengers over the congested city streets below, enabling you to spend more time with the people and places that matter most. Since 2009, our team has worked steadily to make this dream a reality. We’ve designed and tested many generations of prototype aircraft capable of serving in a network of electric air taxis.

We’re looking for talented, committed individuals to join our team as we push onward toward certifying the Joby aircraft, scaling our manufacturing, and launching our initial commercial service.

The Supplier Industrialization Engineering team is responsible for critical component development and qualification activities  role involves communicating well with internal and external teams, traveling to suppliers in different regions, and on-the-spot critical decision-making. The goal: delivering on-time quantities of high-quality component parts into production processes to enable extremely rapid development cycles and product launches.

• Manage respective supplier relationships and performance, including dispute resolution, supplier scorecards, and periodic business reviews
• Participate in design reviews, change control meetings, and other technical discussions with Engineering partners
• Participate in Design for Manufacturability reviews with Engineering partners and prospective suppliers, and drive decisions from a cost perspective
• Ability to understand technical drawings and specifications as well as basic knowledge of manufacturing process controls and quality assurance for their commodity space
• Comfortable communicating with technical stakeholders both internally and externally
• Lead cross-functional teams to manage project timelines including developing and maintaining action trackers, Gantt charts, and other program management tools related to on-time delivery of supplier parts against Program timing
• Ability to build and maintain relationships with cross-functional teams and influence timely decisions with key stakeholders to support our mission
• Lead the vendor selection process with engineering teams
• Improve existing tools and develop effective and creative approaches to quality management in an extremely intense, fast-paced, and innovative environment
• Develop, manage, audit, improve, and correct supplier planning and execution of component manufacturing and assembly techniques and quality control processes from the advanced development phase to mass production qualification
• Provide leadership for New Product Introduction (NPI) at Suppliers and lead supplier improvements in scalability, cost, and quality
• Facilitate communication and clarification of technical requirements between Suppliers and Purchasing, Quality, and Design teams
• Accountable for supplier audits to ensure their ability to meet part performance, delivery, and reliability expectations
• Collaborate with Design, Quality, and Manufacturing to determine the ideal performance specifications and supplier metrics
• Accountable for leading, tracking, and improving supplier manufacturing process development and launch readiness for new products and design changes
• Guide suppliers in developing exceptionally robust processes and procedures to promote efficient and seamless production of high-quality products
• Validate supplier corrective actions involving design and/or process changes to ensure they are robust, sustainable, and implemented for similar potential concerns across manufacturing lines and/or suppliers
• Provide input on new or alternative materials for improved design, manufacturability, or cost reduction

• Technical fluency in MS Office products
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Knowledge of Lean manufacturing practices
• (In-process) Bachelor of Science Degree in Electrical / Mechanical / Industrial / Manufacturing Engineering, or evidence of experience and exceptional ability
• Heading into Junior or Senior year of an undergraduate degree or above by the start of the internship.
• Experience in industrial, manufacturing, process engineering, and/or supplier quality engineering
• A deep…