Plant Supplier Quality Assurance

Essential responsibilities and duties

The role of an SQA Engineer is to improve quality in line with the sites PPM/Demerit targets.

The main missions of the role are:

•  Review the process of new Bought-Out Parts (BOP) with the support and the co-operation of the Advanced Supplier Quality (ASQ) Engineer and/or the Program Quality Engineer
• Deployment Forvia Excellence System tools in the supplier quality perimeter
• Manage the process audits of existing Bought-Out Parts (BOP) where the parts are the subject of a problem solving action. Manage supplier's action
• Consolidate required supplier quality indicators for his plant and communicate them to the SQA Manager
• Initiate and validate corrective and preventive actions with the suppliers for immediate containment actions
• Manage supplier progress plans in co-operation with the plant buyers
• Notify formally suppliers of their self certification status in co-operation with the plant buyer
• Approve Production Part Approval Process (PPAP), only after acceptance by the Program Quality Engineer and the plant quality department
• Approve ASQ program transition document and help compile 'lessons learnt'

• 3-5 years of proven experience in the Automotive industry as SQA
• In-depth knowledge of quality engineering techniques
• Automotive development processes (PPAP, APQP, FMEA, IATF16949)
• Bachelor agree in Engineering (Mechanical)
• Japanese level: Native/ Fluent
• English level: Business / Fluent