Supplier Quality Engineer

Flex is the diversified manufacturing partner of choice that helps market-leading brands design, build and deliver innovative products that improve the world.

Job Summary

o support our extraordinary teams who build great products and contribute to our growth, we’re looking to add a Supply Quality Engineer located in Kallang, Singapore.

What a typical day looks like:
Supplier Selection
- Select the suitable supplier with jointed-effort of sourcing on aspects of quality, capability, pricing, delivery, environment, society regulation, etc. against customer requirements. Supplier Qualification
-Implement the new supplier qualification thru the process of capability matching, supplier risk assessment, supplier self-assessment, onsite qualification audit, qualification database management. VEA (Value-Added Engineering Activity)
-Understand customer drawing, specification to feedback value-added engineering proposal to customer and supplier for optimization of supplier manufacturing process or products. Material (Component) Qualification
-Implement PPAP (FAI). PPAP include FAI, Material Certificates, Quality/Process Control Plan, FMEA, MSA, Process Parameter Sheet, RoHS compliance, Reliability Test, COC, etc. Pilot Run Tracking
-Track the new qualified parts quality performance to ensure meet the customer quality requirements in pilot run phase. Drive supplier corrective action from supplier in Pilot Runs (1-3 lots) and smoothly transfer the pilot run to mass production. Hot Issue Solution and Trouble Shooting
- Working as SME (Subject Matter Expert) to help on supplier quality hot issue and trouble shooting. Holds up Maintenance Audit
-helps on the annual maintenance audit for existing suppliers with SQE. Holds up Supplier CIP (Continuous Improvement Program)
- Helps supplier to use the quality tools to improve manufacturing process and product quality. ECO/ECN/SCR implementation
-Handle with ECO/ECN/SCR from customer, follow up the status in case that PPAP/FAI is required prior to production.
- Performs quality audits on suppliers to assure products and services meet International Organization for Standards (ISO) and regulatory standards.
- Forms a good relationship with the purchasing engineer and the supplier system in order to maintain a strong system and supplier relationships for the organization in which they work.
- Provides cross functional help to select, approve and develop suppliers to meet customer and business needs.
- Ensures supplier selection, development, approval and rejection according to SJM vendor guidelines and requirements.
- Drives full assessment for effectiveness of supplier process control plans, measures and activities.
- Uses statistical techniques and professional judgment to research data for process improvement.
- Develops and guides execution of process validations and tests; explores resulting data and document results (protocols/reports).
- Guides supplier process capability studies.
- Constructs Design of Experiments to characterize supplier processes and/or sets on root cause.
- Develops and implements procedures for new and/or improved supplier processes.
- Provides engineering help to Receiving Inspection including statistical research, measurement systems exploring, Gage R&R studies and inspection procedures.
- Participates in Material Review Board resolutions on supplier provided parts and services
- Participates in supplier Quality System Improvement Plans.
- Guides the Supplier Requests for Change process.
- Performs supplier Quality System audits.
- Performs corrective and preventive actions with suppliers.
- Performs researches of non-conformances and supplier performance for key performance indicators.
- Performs dock-to-stock monitoring and part selection activities.
- Provides guidance to project teams for supplied component and supplier qualifications
- Skillful and safe operation of job-related equipment.
- Rate and track supplier’s performance and drive supplier continuous improvement.
- Establish and maintain supplier management processes and tools.

The experience we’re looking to add to our team:

- Typically requires a Bachelor degree in related field.
- Typically requires 4 years of experience in engineering in the high technology electronics industry or related field.
- Use of the following tools may be required: Electronic Assembly: color code, component, schematics.
- May require various PCB operations.
- Testing: oscilloscope, cable and harness testing, trouble shooting, component testing, logic analyzer.
- Inspection: bare board, systems, components, cable and harness, microscope, measuring tools.
- Mechanical & Electrical Tools: taps and dies, alignment tools, measuring tools.
- Demonstrates advanced functional and technical skills and basic process skills.
- Demonstrates advanced/thorough knowledge of the function and business.
- Typically requires skill and troubleshooting, and diagnostics, and overview of the entire test process and the