SUPPLIER QUALITY ENGINEER

Job Overview

Supplier Quality Engineer is responsible for ensuring that the suppliers deliver products and services fitting the company’s expectations, compliance with engineering and manufacturing specifications and regulation standards including customer requirement. This role involves developing and maintaining supplier performance to meet company’s expectations, KPI target and Supplier Quality Performance.

What your background should look like:

• Handle, review supplier's 8D report and control closing due of Failure Report (FR) for material related issues  
• Define the disposition of non-conformance material and request credit note/replacement for compensation 
• Take lead for solving supplier quality problems in running production 
• Identify, communicate, and resolve supplier serious quality deviations (stop shipments/field actions)  
• Visit vendor facilities and observe the manufacturing environment to review and assess their procedures 
• Performing regular quality control audits to ensure vendors continue to work in compliance with company and necessary standards 
• Follow up, review, verify and approve supplier PPAP/Part Approval for new or changed parts at suppliers  
• Handle sample material qualification process, register and maintain data in internal part approval program 
• Review and define quality check point in incoming check sheet of new material 
• Providing technical advice and guidance to suppliers to reduce defect rates  
• Maintain detailed reports on supplier quality, including defect rates and areas that result in flaws  
• Ensure Schaffner tools, molds at suppliers having been regular maintained (preventive maintenance, control lifetime)   
• Handle and manage Engineering Change Request (CR) for supplier/material related  
• Evaluate supplier performance and send report to suppliers 
• Qualify new supplier according to Schaffner's requirement 

Responsibilities

• Initiate Supplier development program and plan  
• Develop supplier quality standards to comply with ISO9001, ISO/IATF 16949:2016 (certify, PPAP, Control Plan, FMEA)  
• Communicate and develop suppliers to fulfil Schaffner’s fiscal year KPI; Quality, On Time Delivery (OTD), Costs  
• Develop and educate suppliers for 8D report (root cause analysis & systematic problem solving) 
• Review incoming report of new products from supplier and communicate result to team during development phase  
• Identify and communicate critical characteristic between R&D and suppliers during development 
• Drive quality assurance process with suppliers since development phase  
• Define the product programs in the pre-series and launch for supplier related  
• Challenge and report the supplier readiness and capacity of critical component to project management  
• Drive continuous improvement and resolution of systemic supplier site concerns
• Serving as a liaison between our company's senior management and the vendors to identify quality issues and come up with solutions
• Maintain approve vendors list
• Review IMDS of raw material from supplier and check in the completion in system
• Other tasks assigned from Superior in which related to SQM scope of work  

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, Material science or  a related field
• Experiences in working with multinational company/ companies.
• 3 years experiences minimum in management of quality systems, IATF16949 requirements, supplier audits, supplier qualification & supplier development. 
• Be able for local and oversea business trips
• Knowledge of manufacturing processes and cost structures.
• Excellent communication skills and the ability to collaborate with cross-functional teams.

Competencies