Staff Engineer, Supplier Quality Engineering

The Supplier Quality Engineer (SQE) is responsible for ensuring suppliers consistently meet quality, delivery, and manufacturing requirements. The SQE works closely with suppliers and cross-functional teams to qualify new suppliers, resolve quality issues, drive continuous improvement, and support new product introductions and production builds.

• On-site response to machine issues to identify, diagnose and resolve supplier quality and supplier process related problems to achieve defined First Pass Yield, Productivity and Target Throughput

• Make the disposition of the defective material on-site

• Perform failure analysis using both the special failure analysis tools and on machine level

• Drive programs (NPI and Supply Chain) to develop supplier manufacturing processes, and quality systems

• Lead the technical support and drive continuous improvement systems to achieve problem resolution with supplier which will involve the coordination between production, engineering, procurement and suppliers

• Conduct SWOT and RA, select supplier, perform supplier audit and First Article qualification of components/assemblies and develop new suppliers

• Set up (online) critical parameters monitoring at supplier site

• Monitor and continually improve suppliers’ materials quality performance; compute monthly supplier quality perf and conduct Quarterly Business Review. 

• Drive supplier actions for timely factory manufacturing/materials issues resolution; troubleshoot and drive root cause failure analysis

• Education: Master, Degree or Diploma, majoring in Mechanical/Mechatronics Engineering and/ or     

• Experience: 5-7 years related SQE experience. 

• Experience in managing/resolving part/processes issues and experience in supplier quality management.

• Good presentation skills and interactive skills to handle the Supplier including top mgt to derive results.           

• Ability to write report on supplier audit with proficiency in English.

• Capable to converse in Mandarin with the SQE in Suzhou and Suppliers in China, Taiwan and Korea (Eastern Asia region). 

• Acquired the soft skills to interact with supplier Top Mgt for support to attain the required quality focus. 

• Capable to interface with the other departments to resolve technical issues.