Senior Supplier Quality Engineer - Asia

Overview

The Senior Supplier Quality Engineer is responsible to oversee and manage Waters’s suppliers’ Quality Assurance with the intent to deliver high quality products and/or services to Waters and Waters’ Contract Manufacturers.

Responsibilities

• Build and sustain long term win-win relationships with Asia suppliers to ensure understanding and fulfilment of Waters’ quality and operations’ Quality Scorecard indicators.
• Coordinate and manage supplier relationships alongside sister plants and contract manufacturers (CM).
• Ensure the effectiveness of Asia suppliers' escalation activities to minimize risk to Waters business and operations.
• Collaborate with the supplier in failure analysis, root cause analysis, and corrective action plans.
• Support Operations, Supply Chain, and contract manufacturers to resolve supplier technical issues and implement SCAR action effectively.
• Act as Waters QA approval for CMs’ First Article Inspection buy off and Part Acceptance activities.
• Regularly communicate with Operations and Supply Chain to identify improvement opportunities/projects for COPQ, Quality, and Productivity.
• Plan, manage, and execute an effective Asia supplier audits program and supplier process/product change notification (PCN) program.
• Participate in internal/external quality audit activities.

Qualifications

• Engineering degree preferably in electro-mechanical, electrical engineering, or PCB related field.
• Minimum 5 years’ experience in a Supplier Quality/Quality Engineering capacity in a manufacturing or CM environment.
• Good understanding of PCB manufacturing and test processes.
• Working knowledge in ISO 9001 and/or ISO 13485.
• QMS Auditor/Lead Auditor experience.
• Proven experience in efficient supplier quality management and governance.
• Proven experience in managing supplier quality escalation, containment, and counter measures.
• Ability to travel as required.