Vice President - Global Quality

TG Malaysia; Seberang Perai; On-site; MYR 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in Electronics Manufacturing Services is seeking a Quality Assurance Leader to drive global quality initiatives. The role involves overseeing quality programs, leading a QA team, and ensuring compliance with regulatory requirements. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience in electronics manufacturing, strong leadership skills, and fluency in multiple languages. This position reports directly to the Chief Operating Officer and offers an attractive global salary.

Qualifications

• 15+ years’ experience in electronics manufacturing with operations, quality, and R&D background.
• Fluency in English, Cantonese, and Mandarin.

Responsibilities

• Lead global quality and establish a vision for quality within the company.
• Own and standardize the company-wide quality assurance program.
• Drive product complaint investigations and root cause analyses.

Skills

Leadership

Problem Solving

Statistical Tools

Lean Manufacturing

Education

Bachelor’s or Master’s Degree in Engineering

Tools

Six Sigma

Job description

Responsibilities:

• Lead global quality – be a change agent
• Create and communicate an overall vision for quality within the company, setting goals and objectives to create alignment across the company
• Own the company wide quality assurance program that includes quality management system, supplier quality management, customer quality and factory quality.
• Standardize our quality system and control to project a one company image
• Accountable for implementing and maintaining consistent global quality metrics and improvement goals
• Measure, report, and drive breakthrough performance in all critical quality metrics
• Drive the organization on the use and application of statistical tools such as DOE, SPC, GR&R, ANOVA, Hypothesis Testing, etc.
• Setup and and drive COPQ (Cost of Poor Quality)
• Maintain an effective Failure Analysis Laboratory to facilitate expeditious and high quality failure analysis in support of engineering and operations
• Drive product complaint investigations and root cause analyses to ensure feedback loop is complete to avoid same issues in the future
• Effectively communicate and share 8D to the customer.
• Develop, implement, and maintain training that improves product and business process quality and reliability
• Manage, train, and continuously develop the QA team at all sites, and promote an open and collaborative cross-functional culture
• Assist in new product development to establish quality standards, customer defined quality, supplier base and manufacturing capabilities are established prior to initial production
• Oversee compliance auditing program to fulfill regulatory requirements

Requirements:

• Bachelor’s or Master’s Degree in Engineering or related discipline
• 15++ years’ experience in electronics manufacturing with a mix of operations, quality, and R&D background in sizeable factories (2,000+ employees)
• Focus on formulating effective solutions to problems logically and rallying team to execute to completion
• Well verse in statistical tools such as Six Sigma’s DMAIC tool kits
• Good understand of Lean manufacturing concepts and tools.
• Demonstrate ability to successfully lead multi-disciplinary project teams.
• Ability to work effectively with employees at all levels of the organization and with customers, suppliers and third-party certification agencies
• Fluency in English, Cantonese, and Mandarin

Industry: Electronics Manufacturing Services (EMS)

Reporting To: Chief Operating Officer

Salary: Attractive global salary