Supplier Quality Assurance Engineer (M/F/D)

Valeo North America Inc.; Łódź; On-site; PLN 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Private healthcare

Pension plan

Parking and commuting allowance

Job summary

Valeo Service – Stryków near Łódź is hiring a Supplier Quality Assurance Engineer. You will initiate and lead PDCA-FTA analyses with suppliers to improve product quality and ensure compliance across the supply base.

Key duties include collaborating with global and local teams, coordinating inspections and reworks, and managing cost settlements related to quality issues. A strong quality mindset and SAP knowledge are highly valued.

Qualifications

• Engineering or technical education with quality work experience.
• English proficiency and Polish at least communicative.
• 1+ year in automotive quality or similar role.
• Familiarity with problem-solving tools (PDCA, 5W2H, 8D) and quality standards (IATF 16949/ISO 9001).

Responsibilities

• Initiate and lead PDCA-FTA analyses with suppliers.
• Collaborate with suppliers and Valeo teams to ensure two-way information exchange and implement inspection safety measures.
• Oversee settlement of quality deficiency costs with suppliers.
• Validate ISV compliance for first delivery in Liberation and SAP CS/WM.
• Coordinate inspections, reworks, and temporary blocking of products in warehouse and SAP CS/WM.

Skills

Excel

Quality problem solving

PDCA/FTA

Education

Engineering or technical education

Tools

SAP CS/WM

Job description

Valeo is a tech global company, designing breakthrough solutions to reinvent the mobility. We are an automotive supplier partner to automakers and new mobility actors worldwide. Our vision? Invent a greener and more secured mobility, thanks to solutions focusing on intuitive driving and reducing CO2 emissions. We are leader on our businesses, and recognized as one of the largest global innovative companies. Valeo Group is a leading automotive supplier and partner to car manufacturers worldwide. The Group develops and distributes automotive components for both vehicle manufacturers and the independent aftermarket. As a technology company, we design innovative solutions for smart mobility, with a strong focus on intuitive driving, reducing CO₂ and other greenhouse gas emissions, and supporting the development of autonomous driving. Valeo Service Eastern Europe (VSEE) is a commercial and service company within the Valeo Group, operating in the automotive aftermarket across twelve countries in Central and Eastern Europe. The company offers a portfolio of more than 30,000 products tailored to the vehicle fleet profile of each country. VSEE is headquartered in Warsaw and operates a warehouse, training center, and Tech’Care technical support center in Stryków near Łódź. The company currently employs around 80 people across these locations. Join us and lead tech innovation to revolutionize customer relations in the automotive aftermarket! Currently we are recruiting for the position of: Supplier Quality Assurance Engineer. Place of work: Valeo Service – Stryków, near Łódź

Your responsibilities:

Initiate, lead and challenge PDCA-FTA analyses with foreign and local suppliers in SRM (Supplier Relationship Management) in accordance with Valeo tools and methods to improve product quality (C1,C2, WR incidents) Collaborating with suppliers, other Valeo Service units and the local teams to ensure two-way information exchange and take safety measures regarding product inspection to eliminate defective production batches (Incident Reports), respectively by SRM, Incident Report, VIM Red Alert, VIM deviation, Initiating and overseeing the settlement of quality deficiency costs with suppliers Collaborating with foreign and local suppliers for ISV compliance validation of first delivery of new products in Liberation system and SAP CS / WM Performing physical validation of first delivery compliance for a new product Products inspections and reworks coordinations and organizes and supervises the temporarily blocked product on warehouse and SAP CS / WM Supplier audits to check corrective actions shown during analysis after quality incidents (SQA Genba Check, CCL, LLC)

Join our team if you have:

• Engineering education or technical education level proved by product and production quality work experience
• English full professional proficiency, Polish communicative level
• Work Experience 1+ years in similar position: Automotive, Industry Quality problem solving tools and methods such as : PDCA, FTA, 5W2H, SPC, logical thinking and product quality mindset
• Interpersonal skills which bring success on this mission: demand and decisiveness approach to suppliers and quality issues, being very well organised on his/ her job to tackle different tasks
• Good knowledge of Google sheets or MS Excel
• Additional advantage: knowledge of SAP CS/ WM
• Knowledge of FMEA, 8D, and IATF 16949/ ISO 9001 standards is desirable

We offer:

• A full-time employment contract in a stable, global company
• Structured onboarding process - comprehensive training and support from experienced managers and colleagues to help you feel confident in your new role
• Private healthcare (Medicover), group life insurance, pension plan, flexible cafeteria benefits program, e.g. funding for diverse sports activities, cultural events tickets, purchases at selected stores, etc
• Free parking and commuting allowance