Senior IQA & Supplier Quality Engineer - Onsite

Coherent Corp.; Calamba; On-site; PHP 600,000 - 900,000; Full time

Job summary

Coherent Corp. is seeking an experienced Incoming Quality Assurance / Supplier Quality Engineer to manage IQA activities and ensure timely inspection and disposition of incoming materials at our 100% onsite site in Calamba, Philippines.

You will review drawings, specs, sampling plans, and supplier quality documents, analyze defects, and lead 8D/5 Why/Fishbone investigations to drive corrective actions and supplier improvements.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in electronic engineering or equivalent.

Responsibilities

• Manage daily IQA activities and ensure timely inspection and disposition of incoming materials.
• Review material specifications, drawings, inspection standards, sampling plans, and supplier quality documents.
• Analyze incoming material defects, identify trends, and recommend corrective actions.
• Lead investigations of supplier-related nonconformities using 8D, 5 Why, Fishbone, and other root-cause analysis methods.
• Issue, monitor, and verify the effectiveness of Supplier Corrective Action Requests.
• Coordinate with suppliers, Purchasing, Engineering, Warehouse, Production, and Quality teams to resolve material-quality issues.
• Support supplier qualification, new material approval, first article inspection, and process-validation activities.
• Participate in supplier audits and evaluate supplier process controls, FMEA, Control Plans, SPC, and inspection systems.
• Monitor supplier performance using metrics such as DPPM, rejection rate, responsiveness, and corrective-action effectiveness.
• Recommend material containment, sorting, rework, return, replacement, or acceptance based on documented risk assessment.
• Review and approve inspection results, supplier reports, deviation requests, and material dispositions within assigned authority.
• Develop and improve incoming inspection procedures, checklists, sampling plans, and quality records.
• Support risk-based inspection methods, including reduced or skip inspection, based on historical supplier performance and quality data.
• Lead or support continuous-improvement projects to reduce incoming defects, inspection effort, material waste, and cost of poor quality.
• Prepare regular reports on IQA and supplier performance, including trends, risks, and improvement actions.
• Provide technical guidance and training to inspectors, and relevant production personnel.
• Ensure compliance with company procedures, customer requirements, and applicable quality-management-system standards.
• Escalate significant or recurring supplier-quality issues to the Quality Manager and recommend appropriate action.

Skills

Incoming QA

Supplier QA

Root-cause analysis

Data analysis

ISO 9001 knowledge

Power BI

JMP/Minitab

Cross-functional coordination

Quality documentation

Education

Bachelor’s degree in electronic engineering

Tools

Power BI

Minitab

JMP

Job description

Coherent Corp. is seeking an experienced Incoming Quality Assurance / Supplier Quality Engineer to manage IQA activities and ensure timely inspection and disposition of incoming materials at our 100% onsite site in Calamba, Philippines.

You will review drawings, specs, sampling plans, and supplier quality documents, analyze defects, and lead 8D/5 Why/Fishbone investigations to drive corrective actions and supplier improvements.