Apple posted a job you might be interested in March 20, 2015 at 08:33AM

Apple



Supplier Quality Engineer - Packaging

Shanghai City, China, CN - Consumer Electronics

Supplier Quality Engineer with relevant experience in managing, sourcing, and manufacturing packaging commodities in high volume worldwide manufacturing environment.



Key Qualifications

• • Demonstrated ability to work in a fast paced/dynamic environment with minimal direction as a key change agent.


• • Strong leadership skills and ability to assume leadership role with cross-functional peers.


• • Top-notch analytical skills (statically analysis with JMP and excel).


• • Knowledge of procurement principles and strong negotiation/contract skills.


• • Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.


• • Ability to make decisions quickly and multi-task successfully.

Description



Responsibilities include:

• Develops and leads strategic sourcing direction to meet Apple's Packaging and “inbox” requirements.

• Leads supplier sourcing/selection activities and successfully manages the supplier partnerships at a senior level.

• Implements procurement and inventory strategies, policies, procedures and systems.

• Responsible for quarterly cost negotiations, contractual agreements, quality and on going supplier performance.

• Must successfully interact with cross-functional Marketing, Packaging Engineering and external partners to ensure supply base meets technical and cosmetic requirements/specifications.

• Responsible for ensuring new product component and supplier readiness and drives end of life management to eliminate excess and obsolescence.

• Leads presentations to senior management teams both internally and externally.

•Collaborated with Cupertino Packaging Engineer for design review at vendor site.

•Conduct Trial run build at vendor site for the new packaging design. Address Top failures, Yield Rate, UPH, SOP, Production line lay out, Tooling/Machine verification…

•Define Quality plan for the new project at vendor site, and monitor the execution.

•Line qualification and bring up for new vendors or new sites.

•Assist GSM team for new vendor selection, and new/unique material searching based on local vendors.

•Drive vendor for automation and fool-proof process.

•Attend pack out event at OEM site for major build. Address pack out issues caused by packaging, CET issues related with packaging.

•Work with vendor and Cupertino packaging engineer to define the quality criteria for the new parts.

•Assist Graphic team for press check including printing, coating…color consistence.

•Follow up with vendor readiness for the new product.

•Correlation between OEM IQC and Vendor OQC.

•Be onsite at OEM to support pack out trials



Sustaining phase:

•Manage vendor to ensure quality system is being implemented at vendor site.

•Drive FA/RC/CA for any packaging quality issues raised by OEM, DC, internal customer, and end user.

•Regular audit vendor site to ensure quality plan being implemented.

•Scoring and ranking vendor performance from quality perspective.

•Vendor process optimization and standardization.



Education



BS degree in Packaging Engineering or 5 years equivalent work experience.



No salary provided



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