EM Supplier Quality Engineer

Job Summary

In this role, as a Supplier Quality Engineer, you will be focusing on enhancing and scaling up our manufacturing quality processes. The ideal candidate will play a crucial role in integrating quality measures, facilitating the scale-up of mechanisms, and consolidating quality data across various projects to identify areas for further improvement and ensure the highest quality standards of production.

Responsibilities include conducting early Design for Quality and Manufacturability reviews from a quality, automation, and manufacturing standpoint, with a particular focus on EM parts(Lens, Camera module) and device assembling and key commodities such as PCB, FPC components. This position requires close collaboration with our Asia suppliers, internal Engineering and Operation teams to evaluate issues and provide practical solutions to problems from materials, design, and process.

The Supplier Quality Engineer will be instrumental in driving the standardization and consistency of quality mechanisms across key component suppliers. This includes overseeing data mining activities, analyzing results, and leveraging these insights to offer recommendations, conclusions, and actionable solutions for continuous improvement. On the scope, the role will focus on sustaining projects and need to own new projects as well if needed.

Job Description

Program orientation/Execution performance:

• To complete SQE assigned quality problem solving task(s) and always bring results which exceed expectation.
• Present the quality problem solving progress and results to Customer SQM on time.

Issue handling

• Experienced in picking right tool/method in understanding, identifying the issue with proactive practice, solutions can address issue from system level.
• Can use any quality tools to support problem solving and data collection.

Supplier audit: All assigned work done with high quality:

• Effective OBA and no defects escaped to FATP.
• Effective PCA (process audit), follow all issues via PCA finding report until closed. Drive process/system improvement.
• Problem is identified and action plan is figured out for improvement.
• The result like Yield, Cpk are on positive trend with specific efforts.
• Other assignments like monitoring ORT, collecting tooling life etc. can also done effectively.

Soft skills:

Communication: Active communication skill, initiate to work with others and coming with good coordination. Communicate with Customer SQM and Suppliers effectively without understanding gap.

Result delivery:

Quality problem can be solved before the deadline.

Root cause found logically with clear data and evidence.

Push supplier to do improvement for supplier audit findings and close these finding on time.

Reporting:

Work report is provided on time with accurate and complete information.

Supplier audit reports with analyzed data and evidence clearly.

Reports are always prepared and sent to Customer SQM in advance or on time.

Can use quality tools to do analysis and data collection.

Ownership: Proactively to work with supplier, take active actions to find risks for continuous improvement.

Ownership: Proactively to work with supplier, take active actions to find risks for continuous improvement.

Required Qualifications

Bachelor's degree or above with electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or another STEM field.

6-10+ years of working experience of consumer electronics devices at component level and device level. Focus on the quality engineering, process engineering, or a related field.

Experience with EM parts manufacture process including lens, camera module and related quality management experience

Experience with PCB or FPC manufacture process with quality control method

Good knowledge of manufacturing processes of electronic mechanical parts (Lens, Camera module or PCB, FPC)

Knowledge of defects judgement/identification and quality process improvement.

Direct experience in supplier quality management.

Good command of Chinese and English, ability to communicate in English is an advantage.

• Familiar with the DFM (Design For Manufacture), NUDD and PFMEA review

• Good knowledge and hands on applying NPI quality phase review, PPAP, Statistics data analysis