Supplier Quality Assurance Engineer

Gates Corporation (Thailand) (Pluak Daeng)

Rayong, Thailand

If it runs, we can help it run better. We're Gates, global leaders in power transmission and fluid power products and services. At Gates, we are driven to push the boundaries of materials science to engineer products that continually exceed expectations. Our reputation is built on over a century of experience, but everything we do is geared toward powering the future. We are driven by possibility.

About this position

Supplier Quality Engineer looks after supplier quality performance, manage supplier quality incident, collaborate with purchasing team in pursuing quality target e.g. supplier quality ppm, supplier quality incident. SQE takes responsible for both Intercompany and suppliers (both domestic and oversea suppliers).

Responsibilities

The Supplier Quality Assurance Engineer’s specific responsibilities will fall into 5 primary areas:
• Collaborate with cross functional team to drive the improvement of S&D (scrap and defect) to meet the company target as the S&D is the predominant percent in COPQ.
• Lead to conduct audits, including closing out audit findings, creating audit finding reports and determine proper corrective and preventive actions.
• Compliance and implementation with applicable company HSE policy, law & regulations, ISO14001 and ISO45001 management system.
• Compliance with company IATF16949 and ISO9001 requirements or latest revision to follow company procedure, working instruction and other registered documents in management systems.
• Compliance with HR policy, government regulation, employee handbook etc.
• Other tasks or duties as direct supervisor assigned.
• Work closely with cross functional team through APQP approach in order to develop new products or processes. Ensure all the related responsibilities are completed on time in line with customer / program schedule.
• Be part of project APQP teams to implement new products and processes.
• Plan and execute the AQL = 0 approach to Gates Unitta (Thailand).
• Drive the organization to meet the program development (supplier PPAP).
• Identify top poor performance suppliers quarterly and set up plan to improve them.
• Implement eSP and SNAP system along with Purchasing team.
• eSP – used when a problem found in Gates’ customer or Gates’ process or there are some changes from suppliers.
• Work with supplier to smoothly convey changes in supplier without any impact on Gates factory through Engineering change process.
• Come up with continuous improvement ideas to help improve and increase efficiency / productivity / reduce waste in our internal and external supplier processes.
• Work with poor performance suppliers on supplier development plans to bring them up to higher standards, reduce non conformances, better quality and better performance / on time delivery.
• Timely completion of CAPA/8D’s assigned to you for issues from internal repeat / major issues with detailed root cause, corrective and preventive action and containment performed diligently.
• Train and support suppliers on various supplier quality systems, tools, processes and Gates supplier requirement.
• Deploy Gates’ customer specific requirement to suppliers.

Requirements

• Experience in supplier quality assurance or related field.
• Knowledge of quality management systems and standards (IATF16949, ISO9001, etc.).
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
• Ability to work collaboratively in a team environment.
• Proficiency in quality tools and methodologies.
• Familiarity with APQP and PPAP processes.