
Quality Specialist
- Shanghai
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Supplier Qualification: Drive supplier qualifications to ensure the supply base is fully qualified and compliant. Conduct audits and assessments, and drive gap-closure activities. Approve capable suppliers and reject incapable suppliers. Onboard desirable suppliers.
- Supplier Production Part Approval: Execute supplier manufacturing readiness via Production Part Approval Process (PPAP) guidelines. Approve supplier material, process, project and ultimately part. Note: requires close coordination with other functions and experts like engineering and global supply chain.
- Supplier Development: By Lean6Sigma and risk-based methodologies, identify needed improvements with supplier capabilities to ensure conformance with Customer and ABB requirements. Perform assessments to establish a fact-based baseline of current state. This via using standardized assessments and when necessary build customized versions. Establish development plans for identified areas based on the assessments/ supplier data and carry out the development plan with necessary resources from supplier and ABB. Perform risk mitigation activities on request from the organization. Coach and lead team members involved in the development activities.
- Supplier Performance Evaluation / Monitoring: Develop, monitor and report supplier performance (KPIs), quality issues, and development actions. Secure that the results are shared with the supplier, internal plant operations personnel, and internal supply chain personnel.
- 5+ years SQE experience, supporting multi-manufacturing sites & global suppliers
- Bachelor’s degree in Engineering
- Knowledge of quality tools and quality management skills (ISO9001, PPAP, 8D report, PFMEA, Control plan, etc) or equivalents
- Fluent in English - written and verbal
- Lean Six Sigma (L6S) certified – green belt or Black Belt preferred
- Self-Starter
- Action-oriented, with ability to multitask & manage organizational complexity