Supplier Quality Engineer

Major Purpose

Major Duties

• Take charge of the quality of externally purchased products, work closely with Supply Management team and suppliers to build robust quality planning to ensure stable, qualified products’ delivery.
• Conduct onsite Quality System audit, Process audit as new supplier development, as cost reduction resource project, new products creation and existing supplier quality issue investigation and improvement.
• Lead DPAR meeting with cross functional teams during new products development or revision to ensure components received meet quality standards, avoid potential risk during development.
• Implement PPAP process during product development and review conformance of documents and make final approval/rejection, to make sure mass production quality conformity and consistency.
• Lead the containment activities once non-conforming product is reported to make sure the production is moving as planned and reduce the impact and cost.
• Actively do investigations for supplier quality issues reported and define root cause, implement corrective, and preventative actions to reduce/eliminate non-conformances.
• For NC happens in factory, claim reported in warranty, investigate the root cause and collect cost of quality issue and charge the cost from suppliers for supplier’s responsibility.

Required

• Having rich quality management experience and familiarity with supplier development and product delivery process.
• Two or more years’ experience in Hydraulic, Electrical, Structure/Sheetmetal commodity
• Excellent communication skills both in Chinese and English, be capable of communicating with internal and external suppliers, partners and customers in an effective manner.
• Strong knowledge of drawing, Geometric Dimensioning and Tolerancing, Fabrication, hydraulic, electrical and applicable industry standards.
• Knowledge of quality management tools, like FMEA, Control Plan, MSA, SPC, Cpk, Root Cause Analysis, 8D Methodology.
• Skill in interpersonal communications, negotiation, and conflict resolution.
• Flexibility and willingness to travel to suppliers as business need.
• Competency to analyze quality data and trends to identify systemic issues and drive sustainable improvements in supplier manufacturing processes and product quality.

Desired

• Minimum 1 years of working experience in Quality, Engineering, Manufacturing team.
• Quality Management System experience and knowledge
• Ability to facilitate activities at supplier sites to coach, teach, and lead all supplier personnel to successfully execute and accomplish the deliverables defined in the process improvement charter.
• Ability upon data collection and systematically analysis for suppliers’ performance and prevent the risk in advance.

Education

Bachelor’s degree or above, majoring in Quality management, Mechanical Engineering, Manufacturing Technology, Industrial Engineering or related fields is preferred