Supplier Quality Manager (SQE)

Celestica (Chon Buri)

Chonburi, Thailand

Celestica enables the world's best brands. Through our recognized customer-centric approach, we partner with leading companies in aerospace and defense, communications, enterprise, healthtech, industrial, semiconductor capital equipment, and smart energy to deliver solutions for their most complex challenges. A leader in design, manufacturing, hardware platform and supply chain solutions, Celestica brings global expertise and insight at every stage of product development - from the drawing board to full-scale production and after-market services. With talented teams across North America, Europe and Asia, we imagine, develop and deliver a better future with our customers. The Celestica Thailand facility has been established since 1995. Being Celestica’s biggest manufacturing site globally, we employ more than 5,000 employees. Our highly skilled teams produce high technology, high quality products for customers in the communications and enterprise market segments. With unrivalled expertise in high-mix low-volume manufacturing, direct fulfillment, reverse logistics and test development, we enable our customers to realize greater value, potential and outcomes.

About this position

The Supplier Quality Manager (SQE) is responsible for managing a team of SQEs to enhance supplier quality, collaborating with various functions within the company, and ensuring compliance with quality standards through audits and continuous improvement initiatives.

Responsibilities

• Manage a group of SQE to drive this function on supplier quality improvement.
• Work with other function leaders within the company, including corporate, and communicate with the team effectively.
• Work with other functions and provide the audit support for both internal and external customer audits.
• Prepare the report related to the responsible working area.
• Deploy the management direction and objectives to the responsible team and manage the progress to achieve the target.
• Review the team performance regularly, including mid-year and year-end reviews.
• Set up and maintain the quality instruction for incoming quality control and supplier quality control.
• Disposition of inspection rejects materials with the MRB team.
• Disposition of the deviation permit requests.
• Work with the supplier for non-conforming materials disposition and follow up on the FA/CA report.
• Minimize high aging, high-value MRB inventory.
• Work with suppliers for SCAR for the containment action support, problem root cause identification, and corrective action.
• SPCN coordination for the response commodity.
• Special customer tracking/analysis.
• Support First Article Inspection Request.
• Support internal and external quality audits.
• Conduct the CIP Continuous Improvement Plan with suppliers.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in engineering in electronics, electrical, physics, applied physics, telecommunications, material engineering, mechanical, industrial engineering, or any related field.
• At least 8 years of experience in the SQE function.
• At least 5 years of experience in the SQE management function.
• Working experiences in SQE, quality engineering, or process engineering in the electronics industry are preferred.
• Knowledge of industry and quality standards (ISO/TS16949, SPC, FMEA, IPC, 8D Report, etc.).
• Knowledge of Quality Systems.
• Good analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Good organization and communication skills.
• Ability to effectively communicate with a wide variety of internal suppliers and external customers (English language required).