Quality Engineer

SSL Changshu(Foam Solutions and Elastomer Coatings)

**Responsibilities:**

**1. Supplier Quality Management**

• Establish and maintain current supplier quality agreements and specifications in accordance with organisational requirements.
• Monitor and enforce supplier quality performance compliance with material and product specifications.
• Direct supplier complaint handling and corrective action verification processes.
• Conduct supplier performance evaluations in conjunction with Purchasing/SCM.
• Organise, coordinate, and execute supplier audits.
• Implement supplier quality improvement and continuous improvement programmes.

**2. Quality Performance Monitoring**

• Monitor scrap rates, defect trends, and quality performance indicators to identify deviations.
• Analyse quality issues with cross-functional teams and implement corrective improvement actions.
• Ensure achievement of plant quality objectives and customer satisfaction targets.

**3. Quality Management System (QMS)**

• Maintain and control quality documentation within the document management system (e.g., roXtra) in accordance with established protocols.
• Conduct internal product, process, and system audits.
• Execute regular shopfloor quality inspections and address identified non-conformances.
• Collect, maintain, analyse, and report quality-related data and key performance indicators.
• Oversee annual product validation and compliance testing programmes.

**4. Quality Control**

• Establish, maintain, and enforce incoming inspection standards aligned with product specifications.
• Monitor and verify in-process quality assurance activities in accordance with control plans, production standards, and quality requirements.
• Administer non-conforming materials and blocked stock management in accordance with company procedures.
• Conduct quality reviews and risk assessments for new suppliers, materials, and projects prior to start of production.

**5. Training and Quality Awareness**

• Deliver quality awareness training to production and operational personnel according to the established training plan.
• Establish and reinforce quality culture and quality best practices across the organisation.

**Job Qualifications:**

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Quality Management, Materials Science, or a related discipline is required.
• Demonstrated professional experience in manufacturing quality management, quality control, or supplier quality management is mandatory.
• Knowledge of quality management systems, including ISO 9001 and IATF 16949 standards, Familiarity with VDA standards is highly valued.
• Advanced analytical, communication, and problem-solving capabilities are critical to success in this role.
• Fluent proficiency in English, both written and spoken, is required for effective cross-functional collaboration and documentation.