Job Purpose: Ensuring that all products delivered from a supplier are in compliance with manufacturing specifications and standards.Responsibilities:
- Lead Supplier Quality engineering for critical direct materials like lead-frames, ceramic, substrate, tape and reel materials, mold compound, wire, solder paste and etc.
- Driving supplier quality performance, including new product development and product quality improvement.
- Overseeing supplier quality team and establishing quality control objectives.
- Performing supplier quality audits, maintaining supplier quality record.
- Drive standardization of processes across multiple WW factories SQE/IQA (Material Verification, Supplier Assessments, Qualification, etc.)
- Monitor existing suppliers to ensure quality objectives are achieved.
- Lead supplier qualification audits and follow-up with suppliers on corrective and prevention actions.
- Partner with Global Commodity Managers in reducing cost of materials and components while maintaining a high sensitivity of quality
- Drive and ensure Critical Direct Materials supplier with built-in quality from product development to mass production phases
- Collaborate with manufacturing and RD engineers to improve overall product quality by emphasizing defect prevention throughout the development process
- Tracking, management and reporting for the assigned quality initiative programs
- Work with internal and external stakeholders to resolve quality issues that arise as quickly and efficiently as possible to prevent compromising quality and safety standards