Supplier Quality Development Engineer

VARROC LIGHTING SYSTEMS TURKEY ENDÜSTRİYEL ÜRÜNLER İMALAR VE TİC.A.Ş

Varroc Lighting Systems is a premier developer and manufacturer of next-generation external lighting systems and vehicle control electronics for the automotive industry. With 20 locations in 17 countries on 5 continents, we bring leading-edge technology to the mainstream automotive market with high-quality, cost-competitive solutions and superior service and support. Varroc Lighting Systems offers an expansive array of automotive lighting technologies, including LED, matrix, laser, DMD, MEMS, and Surface-LED.

We are looking for Supplier Quality Development & Performance Engineer for our Quality Team in Tuzla Plant. The position will be directly reporting to the Turkey Plant Controller.

Main role

• Apply Global procedures and standards, internally and with suppliers and to comply with the requirements of all Management Systems (IATF 16949, ISO 14001, ISO 27001, Q1 and other customer requirements)
• Validate supplier manufacturing processes and components initial samples
• Manage quality problems / Incidents generated by suppliers during the program development and serial production, validate the full 8D reports
• Deploy the necessary activities in your perimeter to reach defined KPI / objectives
• Manage dashboards to measure&monitor programs and quality performance for suppliers in charge
• Audit supplier premises after a quality claim, to validate the corrective actions and their efficiency and apply preventive approach at suppliers by conducting assessments/audits and shop floor activities
• Implement a quality control on critical components and with high risk suppliers
• Ensure the first level analysis to confirm a claim and determine the potential supplier responsibility on components
• Put in place the necessary containment activities to secure Varroc and customer production
• Collect the data to charge back all induced costs to suppliers following a quality claim with supplier responsibility
• Coordinate the tests to be performed on raw material and manage material certificates and apply IMDS records in database

Soft Skills:

• Minimum of 3 years of quality experience in automotive industry
• Minimum of 2-3 years of Supplier Quality Assurance experience
• Strong and proven audit experience(especially VDA)
• Knowledge about IATF 16949
• Problem solving and analytical skills
• Highly collaborative and able to work as a peer within a regional and global organization
• Problem solving methods & tools advanced knowledge, and logical skills
• Willing to constructively challenge existing setups
• Excellent communication skills in an international environment
• Flexibility in terms of travelling and handling problems (Hands on mentality).
• Strong communication skills to build bridges between different functional areas
• Microsoft, Outlook, ERP – good knowledge