Manufacturing Quality Engineer

TE Connectivity Corporation; Seberang Perai; On-site; MYR 60,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

TE Connectivity Corporation in Penang, Malaysia, is seeking a Manufacturing Quality Engineer to lead quality assurance across incoming materials, in‑process quality, and customer feedback. The role drives DMAIC‑based improvements and ensures compliance with IPC620/IPC610.

You will implement QS policies, support supplier audits, and develop quality documents while coordinating with cross‑functional teams to meet TE’s standards.

Qualifications

• Degree in engineering.
• 7+ years electronics industry quality experience preferred.
• Green belt/Black belt certification preferred; capable of leading DOE/GR&R and data analysis.
• Familiar with IPC620, IPC610 quality standards.
• Strong communication, integrity, accountability and ability to work under pressure.

Responsibilities

• Implement quality policies, procedures and systems; maintain and update quality work instructions to ensure conformity with QS and global standards.
• Involve in customer audits and facilitate timely closure of actions to meet product and process requirements.
• Analyze and address incoming material quality issues and drive supplier improvements.
• Lead process quality improvements using DMAIC; drive nonconformance reductions and risk mitigation.
• Handle customer complaints with corrective and preventive actions to maintain relationships.
• Develop and maintain quality documents (QIP, WI, VA) and set quality inspection criteria.
• Scrap control and improvement: review WIP scrap, monitor, and implement countermeasures.

Skills

Communication skills

Data analysis ability

DOE/GR&R knowledge

Team leadership

Education

Bachelor's degree in engineering

Tools

DMAIC methodology

Job description

Job Title: Manufacturing Quality Engineer

Posting Start Date: 9/2/26

At TE, you will unleash your potential working with people from diverse backgrounds and industries to create a safer, sustainable and more connected world.

Job Description:

Job Overview

• 1.Design and supervise the execution of standard of procedure, analyze and identify raw material issues, control the in‑process quality activities, develop quality engineering documents, develop and track assigned process quality improvement plans and handle customer complaints.
• 2. Role of the owner on type I/II project which went through mass production and lite/micro‑lite project.
• 3. Role of support and review type I/II project from G3 to G5.
• with the objective of meeting the quality requirement within TE Dongguan's quality standards.
• 4.Lead overall scrap control and improvement for the responsible project/product.

Responsibilities

Policies And Procedures, Quality System

• 1. Implement quality policies, procedures and systems; maintain/update quality engineering work instruction in order to ensure the business procedures in line with QS and global standards.
• 2. Involve in customer audit, implement responsible procedures and facilitate other departments to close their actions on time and fulfil requirement to our products and process in order to meet customer requirement and our quality system"

Incoming Materials Quality Issue Handling

• Analyze and identify material issues found in production line, drive SQE for supplier improvement in order to maintain incoming material quality.

Process Quality Issues Handling

• 1. Handle quality issues occurred in process in order to improve and maintain product quality performance, perform risk assessment to take proper disposition, develop improvement action to prevent the occurrence.
• 2. Drive improvement for nonconformance detected by QC.
• 3. Lead team to develop error‑proof and mistake proof solution for quality risk identified.
• In order to achieve good quality performance of product.

Customer Complaints/Feedback Handling

• Handle customers complaints including develop and implement customer complaints corrective and preventive action plan in order to maintain the relationship with customers and provide extraordinary customer experience to customer".

Quality documents and criteria setting

Develop quality engineering documents (QIP,WI,VA), set up and develop quality inspection criteria, prepare COC format in order to maintain product quality performance.

Quality Improvement

• 1. Develop and track assigned process quality improvement plan according to product quality performance and implement situation in order to improve and maintain product quality performance. Using the DMAIC method to drive the improvement.
• 2. Work with team to qualify the process change/new line qualification/new machine, foresee quality risk and advise robust tooling/process design, identify the risk/gap and drive proper improvement action, follow up until action closed in order to improve and maintain product quality performance.

Scrap control and improvement

• 1. Review and approve WIP scrap application
• 2. Monitor WIP scrap and take proper countermeasures
• 3. Follow up top failures in process, identify root cause and major contributor, drive team to take solid improvement action to improve
• 4. Validate the improvement action and follow up the result in order to maintain product quality performance

Job Requirements

• 1.Degree in engineering
• 2.At Least 7+ years electronics industry quality related working experience is preferred.
• 3.Green belt/Black belt certification is preferred, can lead the team to do the DOE/GR&R and data analysis ability.
• 4.Familiar with manufacturing process of cable assembly, such as terminal and IDC crimping, soldering, electrical testing, signal integrity etc.
• 5.Familiar with electrical industry specification such as IPC620, IPC610 etc.
• 6.Good communication skill, integrity, accountability and passion. Can work under the pressure.

What your background should look like

Generally requires Bachelors degree in appropriate field with a minimum of 5 years of progressively responsible professional level experience; Masters degree or higher or local equivalent may be preferred at this level