Manufacturing Quality Engineer - Packaging
Suzhou, Jiangsu, China
Operations and Supply Chain
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Description
- In this highly visible role, you will manage selection, implementation & optimization of quality processes for consumer packaging parts and assemblies for our legendary highly cosmetic consumer products.
- Responsibilities include developing new quality control regimes to enable current and future product designs, conducting DOEs to validate quality systems, and qualifying these regimes for mass production. Full ownership providing end to end solutions including all aspects of equipment selection, setup, process definition, qualification, and mode of operation to ensure a robust quality system.
- Lead production line qualification prior to mass production. The qualification processes required includes cosmetic yield study, approval on product quality, review of product quality consistency, standard inspection process and its implementation, reliability testing results, and dimensional inspection reports.
- A heavy emphasis will be on working with suppliers to triage and mitigate quality issues during ramp up and mass production through lightning fast reactions to quality excursions, deep diving on failure analysis and crafting robust corrective actions to prevent customer exposure while enabling continued mass production.
- Set up standardized quality control process across all vendors to ensure measurement correlation, and as a result, product quality consistency.
- Regularly visits vendors factory sites during mass production to review product quality, inspection process, and audit vendor’s quality system and manufacturing process control.
- Interact with Industrial Design, Marcom, Product Design to enable the most beautiful packaging designs, vivid prints, and uniformly coloured parts on the market. Coordination of activities between the Asia and US-based teams, and vendors is a necessity.
Minimum Qualifications
- Excellent written and oral communication skills, fluent in English.
- University degree or equivalent experience in Print / Chemical / Mechanical / Packaging Engineering.
- 3+ years work experience in a quality, print, or colour management role in the Asia-Pacific region
Key Qualifications
Preferred Qualifications
- Ability to use and implement statistical process control and quality control tools to make data driven decisions.
- Ability to understand GD&T, drawing specifications, and their applications to quality process.
- Ability and willingness to work independently and travel frequently upon request.
- A great teammate who is self-motivated, defining and closing all engineering tasks to meet project objectives, de- tailed oriented to cut to the root of problems, and ability to learn quickly with little information or support.
- Expertise in quality control or processing of highly cosmetic print process (flexo, gravure, offset, digital, etc), deco- ration (foiling, emboss/deboss, lamination, etc), specialized print raw materials, or related processes is an asset.