We are looking for a new colleague SQA Engineer - Casting for our Wind Power BU for Division Industrial Technology at our location of Tianjin, China.


Your tasks:
Supplier Readiness: For items to be started up at suppliers: Perform risk assessments; Perform technical reviews with the supplier; Ensure that the suppliers are following the APQP process and are adhering to the project plan; Ensure that suppliers are submitting acceptable PPAP documentation; Define safe launch plans and follow them up at the suppliers.
Complaint Handling: Communicate supplier related quality complaints to the supplier, and assure that the supplier is timely taking containment, corrective and preventive actions; Leads the recovery of the cost related to these complaints; Process requests from the supplier to deviate from the specification (SDR); Start quality escalations (if the criteria for this are fulfilled), and drive the escalation internally as well as towards the suppliers; Support incoming inspection (family test plans, instruction sheets, trouble shooting).
Supplier Development: Monitor and analyze the quality performance of the suppliers and execute improvement projects at the supplier when targets are not met; Align quality targets with the suppliers; Perform process (VDA6.3) and technological audits.
Support Commodity and Program Purchasing: Define and execute VAVE projects and other cost reductions in Supplier Management; Support in the approval of new suppliers (supplier selection, VDA6.3 potential analysis, technological assessment, QD83 negotiation); Give advice to the commodity and support the commodity in Part Family Strategy; Support in new developments.

Your profile:
Education: Bachelor or Master’s degree in relavant field in mechanical engineering or metallurgy. Has at least 3 years of relevant experience and has more than 3 years Functional competences.
Commodity specific technology: Casting is mandatory, finish machining and 3D CMM measurement is strongly recommended; Required to have comprehensive knowledge or be skilled of conducting quality related topics like: 8D problem solving, APQP quality planning, VDA6.3 process audits, FMEA product and process risk assessments, Technical statistics, IATF 16949 / ISO 9001 Basics.
Have Basic English and be fluent in Chinese and be legally to working in China.
Be adopted into ZF Culture like: Living ZF Strategy & Vision; Acting Entrepreneurially; Embracing Change & Innovation; Driving Execution & Accountability; Fostering Collaboration & Empowerment.


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