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This Position reports to:
Supply Quality Manager
Your role and responsibilitiesIn this role you will have the opportunity to support the deployment of the quality strategy for a local organizational unit including quality culture systems tools and competent teams with the aim to achieve and exceed customer expectations while ensuring sustainable operations. Each day you will assist the organization in achieving the right mix of prevention continuous improvement robust root cause analysis quick response and sustainable solutions to problems. You will also showcase your expertise by collaborating with local functions that impact the quality results to reach the targets for the organizational unit and aim for world-class performance.
You will be mainly accountable for:
- Supplier Qualification: Drive supplier qualifications to ensure the supply base is fully qualified and compliant. Conduct audits and assessments and drive gap-closure activities. Approve capable suppliers and reject incapable suppliers. Onboard desirable suppliers.
- Supplier Production Part Approval: Execute supplier manufacturing readiness via Production Part Approval Process (PPAP) guidelines. Approve supplier material process project and ultimately part. Note: requires close coordination with other functions and experts like engineering and global supply chain.
- Supplier Development: By Lean6Sigma and risk-based methodologies identify needed improvements with supplier capabilities to ensure conformance with Customer and ABB requirements. Perform assessments to establish a fact-based baseline of current state. This via using standardized assessments and when necessary build customized versions. Establish development plans for identified areas based on the assessments/ supplier data and carry out the development plan with necessary resources from supplier and ABB. Perform risk mitigation activities on request from the organization. Coach and lead team members involved in the development activities.
- Supplier Performance Evaluation / Monitoring: Develop monitor and report supplier performance (KPIs) quality issues and development actions. Secure that the results are shared with the supplier internal plant operations personnel and internal supply chain personnel.
Qualifications for the role - 5 years SQE experience supporting multi-manufacturing sites & global suppliers
- Bachelors degree in Engineering
- Knowledge of quality tools and quality management skills (ISO9001 PPAP 8D report PFMEA Control plan etc) or equivalents
- Fluent in English - written and verbal
- Lean Six Sigma (L6S) certified green belt or Black Belt preferred
- Self-Starter
- Action-oriented with ability to multitask & manage organizational complexity
More about us (Mandatory)The IEC Low Voltage Division is a technology leader delivering a full range of energy-efficient low voltage motors including ultra-efficient solutions such as IE5 SynRM (synchronous reluctance motors). Through a global footprint domain expertise and rugged designs the Division provides reliable technology that improves efficiency and productivity even in the most demanding applications.
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