Vendor Quality Engineer (SQE)

Summary:

Support the quality management of products sourced from external suppliers. Work closely with suppliers to ensure compliance with quality standards and resolve any product quality

Key Responsibilities:

• Supplier Evaluation, participating in supplier assessments and audits to evaluate their capabilities, quality systems, and manufacturing processes.
• Supplier Selection, participating in supplier evaluation process for supporting help in selection process.
• Quality Assurance, implementing quality assurance according to plans, procedures, and controls needs to ensure products meet specifications and requirements. Review non-conformance raised at MRB and work together with engineering team to identify the actual defect by analyses the FA report from suppliers.
• Supplier Development, monitoring and evaluating suppliers' performance through regular quality inspections, data analysis, and quality reports.
• Continuous Improvement: Initiating and driving continuous improvement initiatives with suppliers to enhance product quality, reduce defects, and increase efficiency.
• Corrective Action, collaborating with suppliers to identify root causes of quality issues and implementing effective corrective and preventive actions. Review CAPA effectiveness, ensure no repeating occurrence.
• Documentation: Maintaining accurate records, reports, and documentation related to supplier audits, evaluations, and inspections.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Collaborating with internal teams, such as Engineering, Procurement, Production, Operation, Logistic to address any supplier-related quality issues and optimize product performance.
• Any ad-hoc duty as assigned by Superior.

Job Requirements:

• Minimum core qualifications : Candidate must possess at least a Bachelor’s Degree in engineering (Electrical / Electronics / Mechatronics) or equivalent.
• Qualifications (desired) : General understanding in ISO 9001 (quality management system), ISO 14001 (environmental management system), and ISO 45001 (occupational health and safety management system). Certified Internal/external Auditor prefer.

Types of core skills

• (Adv/Skilled/Semi-skilled etc : Familiar in Lean, Six-Sigma, 7 Quality Tools, 8D Report, Quality Control Plan, Lean, Six-Sigma, Poka-Yoke, Measurement System Analysis, and Process Failure Mode and Effects Analysis)

Additional skills (desired)

• Interpret engineering mechanical part drawing and assembly drawing. Knowledge of using measuring instruments including CMM, Vision Measurement system, Height Gauge, Profile projector, Caliper, Micrometer, Multimeter. Prefer to have electrical/pneumatic component knowledge.

Relevant work experience

• At least 2 years of working experience in supplier quality management
• Ability to motivate and promote people on quality and urgency awareness.
• Teamwork, commitment, willing to take new challenges, innovation in problems solving
• Computer literacy (desired) : MS word, MS excel, SAP
• Language proficiency (desired) : Malay and English, Mandarin if any
• Independent, take initiates and able to work with minimum supervision, able to support urgent request