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Job Description
The Supplier Quality Engineer (SQE) is responsible for ensuring suppliers consistently meet quality, delivery, and manufacturing requirements. The SQE works closely with suppliers and cross-functional teams to qualify new suppliers, resolve quality issues, drive continuous improvement, and support new product introductions and production builds.
Responsibilities
- On-site response to machine issues to identify, diagnose and resolve supplier quality and supplier process related problems to achieve defined First Pass Yield, Productivity and Target Throughput
- Make the disposition of the defective material on-site
- Perform failure analysis using both the special failure analysis tools and on machine level
- Drive programs (NPI and Supply Chain) to develop supplier manufacturing processes, and quality systems
- Lead the technical support and drive continuous improvement systems to achieve problem resolution with supplier which will involve the coordination between production, engineering, procurement and suppliers
- Conduct SWOT and RA, select supplier, perform supplier audit and First Article qualification of components/assemblies and develop new suppliers
- Set up (online) critical parameters monitoring at supplier site
- Monitor and continually improve suppliers’ materials quality performance; compute monthly supplier quality perf and conduct Quarterly Business Review.
- Drive supplier actions for timely factory manufacturing/materials issues resolution; troubleshoot and drive root cause failure analysis
Qualifications
- Education: Master, Degree or Diploma, majoring in Mechanical/Mechatronics Engineering and/ or
- Experience: 5-7 years related SQE experience.
- Experience in managing/resolving part/processes issues and experience in supplier quality management.
- Good presentation skills and interactive skills to handle the Supplier including top mgt to derive results.
- Ability to write report on supplier audit with proficiency in English.
- Capable to converse in Mandarin with the SQE in Suzhou and Suppliers in China, Taiwan and Korea (Eastern Asia region).
- Acquired the soft skills to interact with supplier Top Mgt for support to attain the required quality focus.
- Capable to interface with the other departments to resolve technical issues.



