Quality Engineer (PQE)

About the role

This role involves establishing and maintaining quality management systems, leading quality planning and inspection execution, and driving continuous improvement across manufacturing and supplier operations. You will collaborate with R&D, technical teams, and cross-functional departments to ensure product quality, investigate quality issues, and implement corrective actions.

Key responsibilities

• Collaborate with R&D to define and implement end-to-end quality control mechanisms, including raw material and finished product inspection standards and equipment parameter specifications
• Ensure in-house and supplier production capabilities consistently meet product design specifications
• Develop and maintain Standard Inspection Procedures (SIP) and Control Plans (CP)
• Monitor daily production processes and conduct quality evaluations against control plans
• Partner with R&D and Technical teams on sample inspection and verification during critical prototyping stages
• Lead cross-functional teams to investigate incoming material, in-process, and shipment quality issues
• Analyze root causes using 5Why, 8D, and QC 7 Tools and formulate effective Corrective and Preventive Actions (CAPA)
• Compile and present structured 8D reports to internal stakeholders and after-sales teams
• Support internal and external QMS audits to ensure regulatory and standard compliance
• Partner with Supply Chain Management on new supplier onboarding, including capability assessments, risk evaluations, and on-site audits.

Qualification Requirement:

• At least advanced/higher/graduate diploma, Bachelor’s Degree in engineering field or equivalent.
• At least more than 3 years above working experience in the related field and more than 2 years of experience in the same position in related industry.
• Self-driven and motivated, well organized, could prioritize tasks and excellent problem-solving skills.
• Proactive and a team player with strong interpersonal, communications and leadership skills
• Proficient in English, Mandarin, Malaysia, listening, speaking, reading and writing (Priority Mandarin speaker as it will need to interact with the counterpart from China team.)
• Proficient in using PPT, word, excel and other office software, and can effectively assist in work development
• Be able to skillfully use Minitab software, 8D, QCC, QIT, Six Sigma and other quality tools in actual projects
• Have systematic response strategies and capabilities for raising product issues
• The report is neat, the data analysis is systematic, the conclusions are clear and logical.
• Able to use APQP, PPAP, FMEA, MSA, SPC and other tools to complete preliminary analysis of experiments
• Familiar with the relevant knowledge of ISO9001, quality management systems implementation and setup experiences will be the priority.
• Have a deeper understanding of lithium battery expertise
• With small team management experiences