Hardware Test Supplier Quality Engineer

APPLE SOUTH ASIA PTE. LTD.; Singapore; On-site; SGD 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading technology company is seeking a Hardware Test Supplier Quality Engineer to ensure high-quality manufacturing processes. You will be responsible for driving quality improvements with suppliers, leading technical analysis, and managing vendor relationships. Ideal candidates will have at least 5 years of experience in manufacturing or development of consumer electronics and a strong engineering background. This role requires 50% international travel.

Qualifications

• Deep knowledge of test and calibration instrumentation manufacturing methods relevant to NPI Technologies.
• 5+ years of experience in technical domain, high volume manufacturing.
• 5+ years of vendor management experience.

Responsibilities

• Drive quality improvement actions on future test and calibration stations.
• Lead technical Failure Analysis to support root cause analysis.
• Support ECO management and track supplier/engineering changes.

Skills

Quality improvement

Data-driven decision making

Vendor management

Lean methodologies

Technical analysis

Education

Bachelor of Engineering/Science or equivalent

Tools

Test and calibration instrumentation tools

Job description

Summary

Imagine what you could do here. At Apple, new ideas have a way of becoming extraordinary products, services, and customer experiences very quickly. The people here at Apple don’t just build products — they craft the kind of wonder that’s revolutionized entire industries. It’s the diversity of those people and their ideas that inspires the innovation that runs through everything we do, from amazing technology to industry-leading environmental efforts. Join Apple, and help us leave the world better than we found it. At Apple, Quality is one of the cornerstones of what makes our products and technologies great. Leading the team responsible for ensuring our customers receive the high quality and reliability they expect in addition to enabling a design where quality is built in to scale large volumes at capable suppliers is an incredibly challenging job requiring a broad array of technical and management skills. You will engage early in development to enable new technologies that goes across Apple Products.

Description

Hardware Test Supplier Quality Engineers are responsible for bringing up capable suppliers which can execute at a high level technically and operationally on an ongoing basis. Responsibilities include driving quality improvement actions on future test, calibration stations as well as precision instrumentation. They enable a mass production capable manufacturing processes and develop plans to validate / verify new instrument quality at each development landmark. They approach problems in an engineering method and make data driven decision.

• Identify and drive quality improvement opportunities at Test and Calibration equipment suppliers
• Drive supplier selection through robust qualification processes
• Lead technical Failure Analysis to support root cause analysis and issue resolution
• Drive improvements utilizing Lean methodologies, supplier scorecards and own supplier audit, ensuring supplier compliance, while driving systematic problem solving and process improvement plans to deliver value
• Generate and drive vendor Product Quality (PQP) and Improvement Plan (PIP)
• Drive vendor CAPA (Corrective/Preventative Action) to closure
• Support ECO management, implement and track supplier/engineering, design changes, capacity studies and New Product Introductions
• Develop capable new supplier that can be both technology and scaling partners
• International Travel is required (50%)
• Must be open to Short Term International Relocation

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor of Engineering/Science or equivalent
• Deep knowledge of test and calibration instrumentation manufacturing methods relevant to NPI Technologies: Haptics, Inductive, Camera, Depth, Optical Sensing
• Clear and consistent communication, and ability to drive vendor quality and engineering teams.
• 5+ years of experience in technical domain, high volume manufacturing, or development of consumer electronics or components
• 5+ years of vendor management experience

Preferred Qualifications

• Data driven and result-oriented approach to problem solving, failure analysis techniques
• Knowledge of Quality Systems, Design of Experiments, Reliability Models

Apple is an equal opportunity employer that is committed to inclusion and diversity, and thus we treat all applicants fairly and equally. Apple is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodation to applicants with physical and mental disabilities.