Supplier Quality Engineer

Location: Shenzhen or Shanghai

Key job responsibilities
The Sr. Supplier Quality Engineer(SQE) is responsible for NPI and Sustaining Quality at suppliers for parts components and sub-assemblies throughout their lifecycles. The ideal candidate owns managing several high priority activities including production yield reviews lead and facilitate resolutions for issues at IQC IPQC OBA OQC ORT and customer complaints conduct regular line audits develop and facilitate DOEs coordinate and manage cosmetic limit samples selections develop presentations and reports interact and provide direction to suppliers as well as work closely with CMs to analyze and resolve issues between manufacturing partners and addition the position will own facilitating and executing the part/component validation performance and reliability test executions and ensure process effectiveness and compliance between the suppliers contract manufacturers and internal operations.

What youll do:

• Be the primary quality representative for supplier quality activities
• Perform First Article Inspections (FAI) to make sure samples comply with drawings and specifications prior to production start or after any changes
• Own implementation validation and continuous monitoring of suppliers IQC IPQC and OQC to ensure proper process FMEA quality control plans SOPs SIPs operator/inspector training equipment and documentation are implemented and followed
• Determine strategies for continuous improvement in supplier quality and supply chain metrics.
• Manage suppliers corrective actions system (investigation documentation and implementation of corrective action and the verification of their effectiveness)
• Conduct supplier audits including new supplier selection and regular process/product audits to existing suppliers and effectively drive findings closures by proposing and implementing necessary CAPA
• Coordinate and manage cosmetic waivers and limit sample selections and allocations for all involved party
• Take lead process capability assessment measurement system analysis MSOP & correlation and SPC implementations at supplier site
• Initialize the review and approval for supplier PPAP
• Contribute to final product release activities in accordance with established procedures production schedules and gate exit requirements
• Develop and prepare documentation post reports drive quality metrics and communication
• Drive respective teams responsible for issues until a decision or solution is reached
• Track issue and task progresses and understand BOM components layout and drawings with a PLM system (i.e. Arena Agile etc.)

Basic qualifications

• Bachelors degree in electrical or mechanical engineering engineering technology or equivalent
• 8 years of manufacturing SMT process and quality experience
• Experience demonstrating problem solving and root cause analysis
• In-depth understanding and implementation experiences in APQP FMEA SPC & Process capability MSA PPAP DOE data analysis hypothesis testing etc.
• Excellent English communication skills and interactions with suppliers and customers bothwritten and verbal
• Travel up to 60% of the time

Preferred qualifications

• Experience writing technical documents project plans and progress reports to leadership and to stakeholders
• Certified QMS lead auditor
• Solid experience in SMT DIP FATP FPC/FPCA and surface treatment process
• Experience of tooling design tooling engineer and molding process engineer will be a plus
• Experience of optical knowledge will be a plus