Overview
The Senior / Supplier Quality Engineer is responsible to oversee and manage
the Waters’s suppliers’ Quality Assurance with the intent to deliver high
quality products and / or services to Waters, Waters’ Contract Manufacturers
and Outsourced Service Providers.
Responsibilities
* Build and sustain long term win-win relationships with Asia / Greater China
suppliers to ensure understanding and fulfilment of Waters’ quality and
operations’ Quality Scorecard indicators
* Coordinate and manage supplier relationship alongside sister plants,
contract manufacturers (CM) and / or outsourced service providers (OSP)
* Ensure the effectiveness of Asia / Greater China 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 / Greater China supplier audits
program and supplier process / product change notification (PCN) program
* Participate in internal / external quality audit activities
Qualifications
* Engineering degree preferably in mechanical, electro-mechanical or
electrical engineering
* Minimum 3 years’ experience in a Supplier Quality / Quality Engineering
capacity in a manufacturing or CM environment; senior position will be
considered for person with more than 6 years relevant experience
* Working knowledge in ISO 9001 and / or ISO 13485
* QMS Auditor / Lead Auditor experience
* Proven experience in efficient supplier quality management
* Proven experience in managing supplier quality escalation, containment and
counter measures