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BH Job ID: 5580
SF Job Req ID: 21455
Ingersoll Rand is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances.
Job Title: Sourcing Engineer
Location : Hybrid (Mocksville, NC or Charlotte, NC)
About Us
Imagine a company with technology leadership of over 160 years, yet it operates with the energy of a startup. Ingersoll Rand has dedicated itself to Making Life Better for its employees, customers, shareholders, and planets. We produce innovative and mission-critical flow creation and life science technologies – from compressors to precision handling of liquids, gasses, and powers – to increase industrial productivity, efficiency, and sustainability. Supported by over 80+ brands, our products are used in various end-markets including life sciences, food and beverage, clean energy, industrial manufacturing, infrastructure, and more. Across the globe, we’re driving growth with an entrepreneurial spirit and ownership mindset. Learn more at irco.com and join us to own your future.
Job Overview:
We are seeking a highly skilled and motivated Sourcing Engineer to join our Compression Systems & Services Americas Sourcing Organization. This role involves supporting the development, implementation, and management of sourcing strategies to provide optimal supply assurance, pricing, flexibility, quality, and delivery performance. The Sourcing Engineer collaborates with engineering, operations, and quality teams, as well as key suppliers, to meet cost, quality, and delivery targets while fostering positive supplier relationships.
Responsibilities:
- Lead supplier selection, negotiations, and RFP processes, including pricing, payment terms, lead times, and inventory programs, while fostering strong supplier relationships.
- Identify and implement cost-saving opportunities through data analysis, hands-on material reviews, and continuous improvement ideation sessions aligned with plant priorities.
- Collaborate with suppliers and internal teams to qualify new parts, address supplier performance issues, and ensure alignment with operational strategies like localization and plant rationalization.
- Support new product development (NPD) activities by managing preliminary project costs, driving procurement efforts, and aligning with business cases through product launch.
- Track and report sourcing activity metrics and savings, ensuring timely and accurate performance measurement while supporting plant teams in resolving escalated issues.
- Coordinate with cross-functional teams—including commodity, materials, operations, engineering, finance, and quality—to complete projects within timelines and achieve expected benefits.
- Represent the sourcing function in Value Analysis/Value Engineering (VAVE) and Major Model Review (MMR) events, ensuring post-event actions are executed effectively.
- Promote continuous improvement through ideation sessions, aligning strategies to business priorities and addressing systemic supplier performance issues in quality, delivery, and warranty.
Requirements:
- Bachelor’s degree in Business, Supply Chain, Engineering, or equivalent.
- 5+ years of industrial sourcing or supply chain materials experience.
- Advanced negotiation skills and vendor assessment expertise.
- Proficiency in Microsoft Excel and Word.
- Ability to analyze, interpret, and present data for decision-making.
- Ability to travel up to 10%.
Core Competencies:
- Complex decision-making
- Impeccable time management
- Supply chain acumen
- Project management
- Relationship management
Preferences:
- Previous lean manufacturing or 6 Sigma Green Belt/Black Belt experience.
- Advanced Excel skills preferred.
- Oracle and SAP experience in a global environment is beneficial.
Travel & Work Arrangements/Requirements:
- Ability to travel up to 10%
What We Offer
At Ingersoll Rand, we embrace a culture of personal ownership — taking responsibility for our company, our communities, and our environment, as well as our individual health and well-being. Our comprehensive benefits package is designed to empower you with the tools and support necessary to take charge of your health, ensuring that together, we can continue to make life better. Our range of benefits includes health care options like medical and prescription plans, dental and vision coverage, as well as wellness programs. Additionally, we provide life insurance, a robust 401(k) plan, paid time off, and even an employee stock grant, among other offerings. These benefits are our commitment to you, so you can be your best at work and beyond.
Ingersoll Rand Inc. (NYSE:IR), driven by an entrepreneurial spirit and ownership mindset, is dedicated to helping make life better for our employees, customers and communities. Customers lean on us for our technology-driven excellence in mission-critical flow creation and industrial solutions across 40+ respected brands where our products and services excel in the most complex and harsh conditions. Our employees develop customers for life through their daily commitment to expertise, productivity and efficiency. For more information, visit www.IRCO.com.
BH Job ID: 5580
SF Job Req ID: 21455
Ingersoll Rand is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances.
Job Title: Sourcing Engineer
Location : Hybrid (Mocksville, NC or Charlotte, NC)
About Us
Imagine a company with technology leadership of over 160 years, yet it operates with the energy of a startup. Ingersoll Rand has dedicated itself to Making Life Better for its employees, customers, shareholders, and planets. We produce innovative and mission-critical flow creation and life science technologies – from compressors to precision handling of liquids, gasses, and powers – to increase industrial productivity, efficiency, and sustainability. Supported by over 80+ brands, our products are used in various end-markets including life sciences, food and beverage, clean energy, industrial manufacturing, infrastructure, and more. Across the globe, we’re driving growth with an entrepreneurial spirit and ownership mindset. Learn more at irco.com and join us to own your future.
Job Overview:
We are seeking a highly skilled and motivated Sourcing Engineer to join our Compression Systems & Services Americas Sourcing Organization. This role involves supporting the development, implementation, and management of sourcing strategies to provide optimal supply assurance, pricing, flexibility, quality, and delivery performance. The Sourcing Engineer collaborates with engineering, operations, and quality teams, as well as key suppliers, to meet cost, quality, and delivery targets while fostering positive supplier relationships.
Responsibilities:
- Lead supplier selection, negotiations, and RFP processes, including pricing, payment terms, lead times, and inventory programs, while fostering strong supplier relationships.
- Identify and implement cost-saving opportunities through data analysis, hands-on material reviews, and continuous improvement ideation sessions aligned with plant priorities.
- Collaborate with suppliers and internal teams to qualify new parts, address supplier performance issues, and ensure alignment with operational strategies like localization and plant rationalization.
- Support new product development (NPD) activities by managing preliminary project costs, driving procurement efforts, and aligning with business cases through product launch.
- Track and report sourcing activity metrics and savings, ensuring timely and accurate performance measurement while supporting plant teams in resolving escalated issues.
- Coordinate with cross-functional teams—including commodity, materials, operations, engineering, finance, and quality—to complete projects within timelines and achieve expected benefits.
- Represent the sourcing function in Value Analysis/Value Engineering (VAVE) and Major Model Review (MMR) events, ensuring post-event actions are executed effectively.
- Promote continuous improvement through ideation sessions, aligning strategies to business priorities and addressing systemic supplier performance issues in quality, delivery, and warranty.
Requirements:
- Bachelor’s degree in Business, Supply Chain, Engineering, or equivalent.
- 5+ years of industrial sourcing or supply chain materials experience.
- Advanced negotiation skills and vendor assessment expertise.
- Proficiency in Microsoft Excel and Word.
- Ability to analyze, interpret, and present data for decision-making.
- Ability to travel up to 10%.
Core Competencies:
- Complex decision-making
- Impeccable time management
- Supply chain acumen
- Project management
- Relationship management
Preferences:
- Previous lean manufacturing or 6 Sigma Green Belt/Black Belt experience.
- Advanced Excel skills preferred.
- Oracle and SAP experience in a global environment is beneficial.
Travel & Work Arrangements/Requirements:
- Ability to travel up to 10%
What We Offer
At Ingersoll Rand, we embrace a culture of personal ownership — taking responsibility for our company, our communities, and our environment, as well as our individual health and well-being. Our comprehensive benefits package is designed to empower you with the tools and support necessary to take charge of your health, ensuring that together, we can continue to make life better. Our range of benefits includes health care options like medical and prescription plans, dental and vision coverage, as well as wellness programs. Additionally, we provide life insurance, a robust 401(k) plan, paid time off, and even an employee stock grant, among other offerings. These benefits are our commitment to you, so you can be your best at work and beyond.
Ingersoll Rand Inc. (NYSE:IR), driven by an entrepreneurial spirit and ownership mindset, is dedicated to helping make life better for our employees, customers and communities. Customers lean on us for our technology-driven excellence in mission-critical flow creation and industrial solutions across 40+ respected brands where our products and services excel in the most complex and harsh conditions. Our employees develop customers for life through their daily commitment to expertise, productivity and efficiency. For more information, visit www.IRCO.com.
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Who's Hiring
- Anduril28
- Molex7
- Ingersoll-Rand5
- Jabil2
- Microsoft2
Top Industries Hiring
- Technology & Software
- Retail
- Manufacturing
- Medical Devices
- Science & Research
What Employers Look For
The qualifications that appear most often in sourcing engineer jobs.
- Bachelor's degree in supply chain management, engineering, or a related technical field
- Experience with supplier selection, qualification, and performance management
- Proficiency in ERP systems such as SAP or Oracle for purchase order and inventory management
- Ability to read and interpret engineering drawings, bills of materials, and technical specifications
- Demonstrated experience in cost negotiation, should-cost modeling, and total cost of ownership analysis
- Certified Supply Chain Professional or Certified Purchasing Manager credential preferred for senior roles
Tips for Your Sourcing Engineer Job Search
Quantify cost savings on your resume
Sourcing engineer resumes that show actual savings, like negotiated contract reductions or landed cost improvements, get more callbacks than those listing only responsibilities. Pull numbers from purchase orders, quarterly reports, or supplier scorecards and put them front and center.
List commodity categories you have covered
Hiring managers search for candidates by commodity, so your resume should explicitly name the categories you have sourced, whether that is electronic components, castings, injection-molded plastics, or raw sheet metal. Generic terms like 'direct materials' are not enough on their own.
Apply early to roles that fit
Migrate Mate lists sourcing engineer openings from across the United States in one place, so you can find roles that match and apply directly to each listing.
Target companies by supply chain maturity
Early-career roles tend to open at companies building out a sourcing function for the first time, while senior roles cluster at manufacturers with established global supply bases. Reading job descriptions for mentions of 'building the process' versus 'managing an existing supplier base' tells you which situation you are walking into.
Prepare a supplier negotiation story
Almost every sourcing engineer interview includes a behavioral question about a difficult supplier situation. Have a specific story ready that covers what leverage you used, how you managed the relationship, and what the outcome was. Vague answers about 'collaborating with suppliers' rarely land well.
Negotiate your offer using total cost of ownership logic
When you receive an offer, frame any counter around the value you bring to landed cost reduction rather than market rate alone. Sourcing engineers who can articulate their commodity coverage and past savings give hiring managers a concrete reason to close the gap.
Sourcing Engineer Jobs: Frequently Asked Questions
Which companies are hiring the most sourcing engineers?
The most active employers for sourcing engineers right now are Anduril, Molex, and Ingersoll-Rand, and the most openings are in California, Ohio, and Illinois, based on current listings on Migrate Mate as of November 2026. Aerospace, automotive, and industrial manufacturers consistently post the highest volumes of sourcing engineer openings.
How many sourcing engineer jobs are remote?
About 50% of sourcing engineer openings are fully remote or hybrid as of November 2026, though the role is more on-site than many corporate functions. Strategic sourcing and commodity management roles that focus on contracts and analysis tend to offer the most remote flexibility, while roles requiring regular supplier audits or factory visits are typically tied to a physical location.
How do you become a sourcing engineer?
Start with a bachelor's degree in supply chain, mechanical engineering, industrial engineering, or a closely related field. Early experience in procurement, purchasing, or manufacturing operations builds the technical and commercial foundation employers look for. Earning a recognized supply chain certification strengthens your candidacy, and developing expertise in a specific commodity category, such as electronics or castings, makes you competitive for direct-hire sourcing roles faster than staying generalist.
Can you get hired as a sourcing engineer with little experience?
Yes, entry-level sourcing engineer roles exist, particularly at companies scaling their procurement teams or at manufacturers that hire from adjacent functions like production planning or quality. Internships in purchasing or supply chain, exposure to ERP systems, and the ability to read engineering drawings are the credentials that move a low-experience candidate past the initial screen. Applying to roles labeled 'sourcing engineer I' or 'junior sourcing engineer' rather than unleveled titles improves your odds significantly.
What does the sourcing engineer interview process look like?
Most sourcing engineer interview processes include a phone screen with a recruiter, a hiring manager conversation focused on your commodity background and supplier management experience, and a technical or case-based round where you may be asked to walk through a should-cost analysis or a make-versus-buy scenario. Final rounds often involve the cross-functional team, including engineering and operations, since the role works closely with both groups. Reference checks are standard before an offer is extended.
Where can I find and apply to sourcing engineer jobs?
You can find and apply to sourcing engineer jobs on Migrate Mate, which lists current openings from across the United States. Search the roles that fit your commodity background and experience level, then apply directly to each listing that matches what you are looking for.
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