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Senior Engineer I, Supplier Quality Engineering Location: Nitra, Slovakia Mission As part of the strategic partnership between Schneider Electric and Foxconn for the manufacturing of prefabricated Power Modules and other containerized Data Center solutions, Schneider Electric is establishing a new team to support the rapidly growing demand for Data Center infrastructure across Europe. Within this organization, Supplier Quality will play a critical role in ensuring that the Schneider Quality procedures and principles are properly defined, implemented, and executed at the new manufacturing facility in Nitra. The objective is to ensure that every solution manufactured at the site meets Schneider Electric's quality and performance standards, while fulfilling increasingly demanding customer expectations for reliability, quality, and short delivery lead times. The Supplier Quality will be responsible for coordinating the quality activities performed by the Foxconn manufacturing team, ensuring that the specific quality controls are successfully completed before delivery to the customer. The Nitra facility, operated by Foxconn, will become an important manufacturing hub supporting the deployment of prefabricated Data Center solutions across Europe, particularly Power Modules supplying critical electrical infrastructure to Data Centers operated by some of the world's leading cloud, internet, and digital service providers. Description This position requires a hands-on and results-oriented leader capable of building and coordinating effective quality organization in a new and rapidly evolving manufacturing environment. The successful candidate will demonstrate strong leadership, adaptability, ownership, and problem-solving capabilities, while efficiently managing available factory resources to ensure the safe, consistent, and timely quality of all products manufactured in Nitra. A key part of the mission will be to build the quality capability of the Nitra facility from the ground up, ensuring the establishment of the correct organization, processes, testing standards and ways of working required to support a rapidly growing production volume. Reporting the quality status in the factory to its functional manager (RoW OG Operation Leader) and being able to engage and follow the guideless and principles following MDC Europe Quality Manager. Besides, it will be a single point of contact between Schneider and Foxconn companies related to quality matters. It will be required some internal PreFab trainings in our main facility in Europe in Sant Boi (Barcelona, Spain), to learn and know the procedures of existing manufacturing facility and performing first quality controls supervised by an experienced quality team, learning Schneider's safety and quality culture to be able to bring this principles to the new commissioning team in Nitra. You will be part of the quality team in Barcelona, a team of 7 people focused on inspections, audits, non-conformity management, and continuous improvement. In a context of business growth, we need to add a highly autonomous and motivated individual to join this growth project The mission will be to participate in the project execution phase as a quality representative at the factory. Key Responsibilities: Build and manage the quality capability in the new Schneider and Foxconn facility Report on quality tasks in an effective manner Work with local team to adapt their quality controls and all its new providers Manage (with factory resources) the quality controls fulfillment Support other End of Line Test activities when required Reporting Lessons Learned Be the visible face leading the quality when an end customer witnesses a test at the factory. Temporary Quality Wall (TQW) maintenance Supplier nonconformity management Supplier root cause analysis support Defect Parts per Million (DPPM) KPI maintenance Supplier audits Supplier qualification and development Requirements Competency English (First/B2) / Slovak - ability to hold discussions of a technical nature Microsoft Office Effective Report Writing Competent in 8D, 5 Why’s and Ishikawa Teamwork skills Experience & Acknowledgement Bachelor’s degree in Engineering or Engineering, Mechanical Engineering or Electrical Engineering Experience: +3 years in previously listed key responsibilities Experience in auditing and supplier qualification Experience in the data center (valuable) Send us your CV and get the chance to HAVE: EXCITING JOB: Join a global leader in Digital Transformation of Energy Management and Automation. Our INCLUSIVE REWARD PORTFOLIO is designed to support YOU to be your best and it goes byond pay and benefits. MEANINGFUL: Competitive pay & incentives, Market leading & Personalized benefits, Schneider Electric Foundation supporting individuals and communities around the world INCLUSIVE: Fair pay initiatives GLOBAL, Family Leave Policy, Pay equity EMPOWERED: Workplace flexibility OPEN TALENT MARKET to own your career locally or globally LEARNING & DEVELOPMENT: E-learning platform & E-learning Link HEALTH AND WELL-BEING: Group life insurance for employees, Flexile working hours & home office, Multisport card, Meal allowance, Relax room & Massages FAMILY LEAVE POLICY: Child care, Care Leave, Bereavement leave, Additional day off for women on International Women´s Day, 4 Sick days, 1 Bridge day per year RECOGNITION and REWARDS: Attractive referral bonus, Diversity & Inclusion initiatives and events, Celebration of seniority PERKS: Cafeteria benefit, WESOP (Worldwide Employee Share Ownership Plan), Recreation allowance Information about the selection process: If you are interested in this position, please send us your CV in English or Slovak language. We really appreciate your job application. Please mind we will contact only candidates meeting our job requirements. Thank you for your kind understanding. Let us learn about you! APPLY today! At Schneider, we believe that every employee is a talent who deserves equal opportunities. This means you matter. Every individual needs to feel valued, supported, and treated fairly to do their best work. Our Total Rewards is our way of saying: “We see you. We value you”. It’s more than just pay and benefits – it’s a meaningful investment in you. It is designed for you to perform, grow, feel safe, and elevate your potential to shine as an impact maker. For this Slovakia based position, the expected pay range is EUR 33.700 - EUR 47.400 per year. The compensation range for this full-time position applies to candidates located within Slovakia. Our pay ranges are determined by reviewing roles of similar responsibility and level. 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