Lead Supplier Quality Engineer

About the Company

Join a fast-growing agri-tech company at the forefront of transforming how the world's livestock are managed. As it expands its global footprint, this team is building smart, cutting-edge technology that makes pasture and animal health management smarter, faster, and more sustainable — for farmers everywhere.

About the Role

Our client is looking for a Lead Supply Quality Engineer to take responsibility for ensuring that every component in the supply chain is delivered at quality and on time. Hardware manufacturing is accelerating quickly to satisfy growing global markets, and it's vital that every component shipped to contract manufacturers in Asia is ready for the tough environment it will face in the field once assembled into the final product.
 

What your day could look like

• Implement statistical process control methods for the manufacturing process of critical parts and work with suppliers to ensure this is reflected in their process control plan
• After a failure during production or OQC inspection at a supplier, run a rapid sprint analysis with design engineers to unblock the release of the shipment with risk-mitigative actions and keep production running with effective preventive measures
• Update and implement quality control documentation to protect against future failures, based on root cause analysis that identified a component issue after a field device went offline on a farm in Australia
• Audit compliance with quality requirements at a new supplier and work with the supplier to quickly close any non-conformances found

What we are looking for

• 5+ years of experience in quality management for high-volume manufacturing. Production of electromechanical products is preferred
• Proven experience in responding to and resolving quality issues rapidly to minimise production disruption
• Demonstrated first principles thinking and ability to hone in on the most important issues during audit or reviewing problems
• Experience working with suppliers to achieve required outcomes based on context
• High proficiency (written, verbal and reading) in English and Mandarin
• Relevant quality-related qualifications such as ASQ certification (e.g. CQE or CQA) are beneficial, as is formal Internal Auditor Certification
• Willing to travel regularly around APAC (25%+ of your time)

Location: Guangdong, China based (with travel to Thailand and New Zealand), or New Zealand based (with 50%+ travel to China and Thailand)
Employment Type: Full time
Location Type: Remote
Department: Supply Chain and Logistics