Supplier Quality Management Senior Professional

The opportunity
Hitachi Energy is a global technology leader that is advancing a sustainable energy future for all.

Hitachi Energy's Grid Integration business unit has delivered more than 4,000 projects over the last 15 years. Our Grid Integration portfolio spans a wide range of transmission and substation applications, which facilitate reliable and efficient system integration of the future digital electric network with minimum environmental impact.

We incorporate the integrated systems, solutions and services of our business' DC and AC fields, including HVDC, Substations, FACTS, Grid and Power Quality solutions such as offshore wind connections, and Semiconductors. We offer Power Consulting for key segments in the energy system, such as renewables, transmission distribution and as well as e-transportation solutions.

How You'll Make An Impact

• You will support the onboarding process of new supplier as requested by Supply Chain Management (SCM), will support SCM to initiate the qualification process and to perform the initial risk assessment, plan and conduct the on-site audit to identify gaps and define a corrective action plan and will monitor and ensure the supply base is and remains fully qualified and in compliance with Hitachi Energy standards and applicable regulatory requirements.
• You will schedule, monitor and approve suppliers for critical product type through a Production Part Ap-proval Process (PPAP) and coordinate closely with other functions and experts from engineering, manufacturing, etc. and lead, review and approve the Root Cause Analysis (RCA) and the Corrective/Preventive action plan submitted by the supplier for top quality issues, in case of RCA required by customer, collaborate with the PQM for a joint review and approval.
• You will support the SCM and project team to identify and put in place the containment actions for supplier quality issues, like late deliveries, non-conforming products or project services. For any supplier issue causing an extra cost, support the claim owner to prepare a technical dossier with responsibility analysis for a successful claim negotiation.
• You will monitor and report supplier performance (KPIs), quality issues, and development actions and review periodically supplier quality performance (i.e. NC, COTD, COPQ) to identify possible cluster (repetitive defects, top offender suppliers) that could lead to supplier-specific or general improvement initiative in the supply base, in case of cross-functional improvement initiative, collaborate with Quality Continuous Improvement (CI) team to hand over or have the proper support from required functions.
• You will plan, perform and report periodical supplier assessments with a risk-based approach. The assessment is performed using established assessment models and when necessary, build customized versions. Using Lean6Sigma methodology to identify the causes of poor supplier performance and process capabilities and carry out improvement in collaboration with necessary resources and expertise from supplier and Hitachi Energy and also support the implementation of category strategy both on short and long term.
• You will work in collaboration with SCM to deploy in local units the supply quality instructions & guidelines established or developed by the Company/ Business Unit (BU) Supply Quality Team, support and coach the SCM organization to report properly the supplier quality and on time delivery data, and to ensure information are available in the Supplier Quality Management (SQM) tool for supplier classification by the category teams and identify and escalate gaps to SCM to ensure each supplier is associated with a right Global Unique Identification (GUID) and supplier data are updated.
• You will lead the analysis and resolution of top and/or recurrent supplier quality issue detected during project execution, will support the Project quality team to carry out mitigation actions at supplier base for quality risk identified in the project (i.e. poor performance of the selected supplier, criticality and/or complexity of customer requirement, lesson learned to be applied, etc.) and will lead the execution of inspection activity at supplier premises, not required by customer, as defined in the project quality documentation (i.e. quality control plan) and support the Project quality team in the resolution of quality issue detected during the inspection activity at supplier premises, directly managed by Project quality team.
• You will collaborate with other functions outside SCM (Quality & Operations, Sustainability/HSE, R&D/Engineering, Tender teams, among others) by representing the "Voice of Supplier" to them (i.e. proposal to change requirement difficult to meet or make them clearer, collect from supply base main pain points for sustainability initiatives) and represents "Voice of Customer" to supplier.
• You will be responsible to ensure compliance with applicable external and internal regulations, procedures, and guidelines.
• Living Hitachi Energy's core values of safety and integrity, which means taking responsibility for your own actions while caring for your colleagues and the business.

Your background

• You hold a bachelor's degree in industrial/electrical engineering.
• Required with minimum 5 years of supplier quality management or industrial engineering for power quality industry experience.
• Experience of conducting supplier audit independently and following-up corrective actions or leading the build-up of one production line.
• Experience with PPAP, leading PPAP will be a plus.
• Experience with ISO standards and quality certification processes.
• Strong communication and problem solving skills.
• Six Sigma Green Belt, Black Belt will be a plus.
• Proficiency in business level in verbal and written English.

More About Us
We pride ourselves on offering a holistic range of competitive benefit programs to support your financial, physical and mental wellbeing and personal development. We want you to truly thrive with us – in work and out. For this role, depending on grade and experience, we offer the following employee benefits (subject to the respective plan rules) :

• Up to 30 days full paid leaves per year
• Flexible Benefit program (Supplementary Pensions included)
• Medical Insurance(outpatient and inpatient)
• Long service awards
• Flexible Working(subject to role)

Are you ready for an exciting new challenge? Does the above description sound like you? Welcome  Our selection process is continuous, and the position may be closed before the advertisement expires. So, if you are interested – don't delay, apply today  All other questions can be directed to Talent Acquisition Partner: Alice Zhao, WeChat: alicezhao2020.

Hitachi Energy is a global technology leader in electrification, powering a sustainable energy future through innovative power grid technologies with digital at the core. Over three billion people depend on our technologies to power their daily lives.

With over a century in pioneering mission-critical technologies like high-voltage, transformers, automation, and power electronics, we are addressing the most urgent energy challenge of our time – balancing soaring electricity demand, while decarbonizing the power system.

Headquartered in Switzerland, we employ over 50,000 people in 60 countries and generate revenues of around $16 billion USD. We welcome you to apply today.