Candidate Availability
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About the Role
You will define supplier qualification criteria, assess and approve suppliers, conduct on-site audits, and manage supplier performance. You will develop Quality Assurance Agreements, coordinate approvals, manage non-conformance reporting, analyse quality trends, and lead supplier improvement and requalification actions.
Requirements
- 5 years of experience in supplier quality management with complex mechatronic products.
- Hands-on experience conducting supplier audits and driving corrective actions to verified closure.
- Strong understanding of root-cause analysis, 8D, and structured problem solving.
- Experience defining and negotiating supplier quality requirements, ideally including Quality Assurance Agreements.
- Ability to work across Procurement, Engineering, Manufacturing, and Quality.
- Willingness to travel to suppliers and spend time on-site when required.
Responsibilities
- Define supplier qualification criteria and processes for assessing and approving suppliers.
- Prepare and maintain supplier audit and assessment frameworks, questionnaires, and checklists.
- Conduct on-site assessments of critical suppliers and drive audit findings to closure.
- Monitor supplier performance and initiate improvement or development actions.
- Identify suppliers requiring Quality Assurance Agreements.
- Develop and maintain Quality Assurance Agreement templates aligned with ISO 9001 and ISO 80079-34.
- Review and negotiate Quality Assurance Agreement terms with suppliers.
- Coordinate internal Quality, Legal, and Purchasing approvals for Quality Assurance Agreements.
- Define and maintain the supplier non-conformance reporting process.
- Establish non-conformance reporting templates and tracking tools.
- Analyse non-conformance trends and drive corrective actions.
- Initiate supplier development, improvement plans, or requalification.
Benefits
- Employee stock ownership plan.