Advanced Quality Planning Engineer (AQP)

MOLEX SINGAPORE PTE. LTD.; Singapore; On-site; SGD 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Molex Singapore is seeking a Quality Engineer to collaborate with the Product Development team to develop and maintain a Quality Plan, ensuring risks are mitigated for flawless launches that meet customer cost, quality, and delivery requirements.

You will work with Design, Manufacturing, Project Management, and Sales/Marketing, and you’ll lead 8D problem solving, metrology qualification, and supplier/customer documentation efforts to drive quality excellence.

Qualifications

• BS Degree in Engineering (or related field) from an accredited program.
• 3 years’ experience in Quality Engineering or related engineering field.
• Strong organizational skills to anticipate, plan, organize and self-monitor workload.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills.
• Good interpersonal skills for effective leadership and facilitation.
• Solid knowledge of metrology and GD&T.
• Knowledge of statistics; experience with Minitab or similar software.
• Proficient with MS Office (Excel, Word, PowerPoint).
• Willingness to travel domestically and internationally (5–10%).

Responsibilities

• Quality Plan Development: ensure project quality plans focus on voice of customer and timely delivery of all quality deliverables.
• Risk Analysis: facilitate front-end reviews and provide inputs on internal/external history; assist in reliability/test planning.
• Metrology/Qualification: develop measurement plans, own gauges/fixtures, perform MSAs and CP/CPP analyses for new/modified parts.
• Flawless Launch: conduct safe-launch exercises, perform process audits, and qualify new production processes.
• Customer Approval: ensure required customer documentation for acceptance is completed.
• Supplier Approval: review/approve supplier documentation; ensure supplier quality compliance.
• Problem Solver: lead 8D problem solving for new product issues and prevent recurrence; drive improvements.
• Other duties as assigned by management.

Skills

Quality planning

Risk analysis

Metrology

FMEA

Leadership

Statistical analysis

Minitab

MS Office

Education

BS Degree in Engineering

Tools

Minitab

Job description

Your Job

The primary purpose of your role is to work closely with the Product Development team to develop and maintain a Quality Plan. This plan is crucial in managing and mitigating project risks to ensure a flawless product launch that meets the customer's cost, quality, and delivery requirements.

Our Team

You will be reporting to the Principal AQP Engineer.
Working with internal parties:Product Design Engineers, Manufacturing / Process / Tooling Engineers, Project Management, Manufacturing Plants, Product Management & Sales / Marketing

Working with external parties:Customers, Suppliers

What You Will Do

• Quality Plan Development:Ensures the project Quality Plan for new products and product modifications are focused on the voice of customer and all project quality deliverables are completed in a timely manner.
• Risk Analysis:Facilitation during front-end product / tool / assembly design or process reviews, design & processFMEA reviews by providing inputs on internal and external quality history, lessons learned and through activecritical thinking / questioning.Reviews and approved reliability test plan.
• Metrology / Qualification of New / Modified Parts:Facilitate the development of measurement plans / methods and lead the disposition of new products at FOT (First Off Tool) and Qualification.Ownership of gauges & necessary inspection fixtures, perform Measurement System Analysis, Capability Studies & any necessary statistical analysis with goal of Tool / Process Qualification.
• Flawless Launch:Work with Manufacturing AQP or QE to conduct Safe Launch exercise，Perform process audits and reverse (go & see) FMEA’s to qualify new production processes, and to ensure compliance to documented control plans for new products.
• Customer Approval:Ensures customer required documentation relating to customer acceptance of new products and product modifications are completed.
• Supplier Approval:Reviews and approves supplier product specific documentation on new and modified purchased components.Works with supplier quality engineer to ensure compliance.
• Problem Solver:Lead in the problem solving (8D’s), analysis, and resolution of new product related customer complaints or internal quality complaints during launch.Support efforts for prevention of repeat issues & systemic improvements to the Product Development Processes to reduce New Products QNs.
• Perform other related duties as assigned by management.

Who You Are (Basic Qualifications)

• BS Degree in Engineering or other related field
• 3 years’ experience in Quality Engineering or related engineering field
• Strong organizational skill to anticipate, plan, organize and self-monitor workload
• Good communication skill and presentation skill
• Good interpersonal skills for effective leadership and team facilitation
• Solid Knowledge & understanding of metrology and GD&T
• Knowledge of statistics - experience using Minitab or other software
• Experience in using MS Office (Excel, Word, Power Point)
• Able to travel (domestic and international) 5% -10%

What Will Put You Ahead

• Training in Advance Quality Planning Tools like DFMEA, Lean / Six Sigma, reliability test plans
• 3 years’ experience in Quality engineering in a new-product introduction environment
• 3 years’ experience performing PFMEA/DFMEA and using other Advanced Quality Planning tool
• Working knowledge of testing, molding, stamping, plating and assembly processes
• Quality System (ISO 9001 or IATF 16949) and Supplier Auditing experience, Gage and Fixture design

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Who We Are

As a Koch company, Molex is a leading supplier of connectors and interconnect components, drivinginnovation in electronics and supporting industries from automotive to health care and consumer to data communications. The thousands of innovators who work for Molex have made us a global electronics leader. Our experienced people, groundbreaking products and leading-edge technologies help us deliver a wider array of solutions to more markets than ever before.

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Additionally, everyone has individual work and personal needs. We seek to enable the best work environment that helps you and the business work together to produce superior results.