Supplier Quality Engineer | China at UmdaschGroup

The Supplier Quality Engineer (SQE) – Expatriate, based in China, is responsible for driving supplier quality performance, process capability, delivery reliability, and capacity assurance across the regional supply base. The role acts as a key interface between suppliers in China and MEA/EAP regional stakeholders, ensuring alignment with procurement strategy, engineering requirements, and manufacturing needs. Reporting to the Senior Supplier Quality Manager – MEA/EAP, this position contributes directly to supplier development, risk mitigation, and sustainable operational performance. If you are passionate about quality excellence, have a strong technical and commercial mindset, and thrive in a dynamic, cross-functional environment, this could be your next great opportunity. Key Responsibilities • Establish, implement, and continuously improve supplier QA/QC systems aligned with regional procurement and quality strategy. • Collaborate closely with Strategic Procurement and Category Management to prioritize supplier development by product category, driving improvements in quality, cost competitiveness, delivery performance, and sustainability. • Evaluate and qualify new and existing suppliers in China, ensuring compliance with technical specifications, quality standards, process capability, cost targets, and capacity requirements. • Act as a key quality interface for procurement decisions, supporting supplier selection, qualification, and long-term sourcing strategies. • Support procurement with data-driven insights on supplier performance, capability, risks, capacity constraints, and lead time reliability. • Approve supplier products that meet Doka’s quality reliability, and performance standards. • Introduce and deploy Lean methodologies, supplier scorecards, structured audit systems to enhance supplier maturity and transparency. • Monitor and report supplier performance through key metrics, adherence, capacity utilization, and audit scores, and drive corrective actions where required. • Track and follow up on open orders, production progress, and delivery schedules at supplier sites to ensure timely fulfillment and early identification of deviations. • Assess supplier manufacturing capacity, load balancing, and scalability on a periodic basis; proactively communicate risks, constraints, and mitigation plans to internal stakeholders. • Identify and escalate potential supply chain bottlenecks, lead time risks, and capacity limitations, enabling proactive decision-making and continuity planning. • Lead supplier-related non-conformance management, ensuring effective containment, root cause analysis (8D), and sustainable corrective and preventive actions. • Collaborate with Product Management and Engineering to align on technical requirements, process parameters, design changes, and new product introductions (NPI). • Support supplier readiness for new product launches, ensuring process robustness, capacity availability, and milestone compliance. • Provide technical guidance to suppliers to improve manufacturing efficiency, Process stability, cost optimization, and product quality. • Build and maintain strong supplier relationships, foster long-term partnerships and continuous capability development. • Act as the regional representative in China, ensuring effective cross-cultural communication and alignment between local suppliers and MEA/EAP teams.