About the role
Job Description
**Responsibilities:**
**1. Supplier Quality Management**
* Establish and maintain current supplier quality agreements and specifications in accordance with organisational requirements. * Monitor and enforce supplier quality performance compliance with material and product specifications. * Direct supplier complaint handling and corrective action verification processes. * Conduct supplier performance evaluations in conjunction with Purchasing/SCM. * Organise, coordinate, and execute supplier audits. * Implement supplier quality improvement and continuous improvement programmes.
**2. Quality Performance Monitoring**
* Monitor scrap rates, defect trends, and quality performance indicators to identify deviations. * Analyse quality issues with cross-functional teams and implement corrective improvement actions. * Ensure achievement of plant quality objectives and customer satisfaction targets.
**3. Quality Management System (QMS)**
* Maintain and control quality documentation within the document management system (e.g., roXtra) in accordance with established protocols. * Conduct internal product, process, and system audits. * Execute regular shopfloor quality inspections and address identified non-conformances. * Collect, maintain, analyse, and report quality-related data and key performance indicators. * Oversee annual product validation and compliance testing programmes.
**4. Quality Control**
* Establish, maintain, and enforce incoming inspection standards aligned with product specifications. * Monitor and verify in-process quality assurance activities in accordance with control plans, production standards, and quality requirements. * Administer non-conforming materials and blocked stock management in accordance with company procedures. * Conduct quality reviews and risk assessments for new suppliers, materials, and projects prior to start of production.
**5. Training and Quality Awareness**
* Deliver quality awareness training to production and operational personnel according to the established training plan. * Establish and reinforce quality culture and quality best practices across the organisation.
Qualifications
**Job Qualifications:**
* Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Quality Management, Materials Science, or a related discipline is required. * Demonstrated professional experience in manufacturing quality management, quality control, or supplier quality management is mandatory. * Knowledge of quality management systems, including ISO 9001 and IATF 16949 standards, Familiarity with VDA standards is highly valued. * Advanced analytical, communication, and problem-solving capabilities are critical to success in this role. * Fluent proficiency in English, both written and spoken, is required for effective cross-functional collaboration and documentation.