Supervisor Incoming Quality Assurance

At TE, you will unleash your potential working with people from diverse backgrounds and industries to create a safer, sustainable and more connected world.

Job Overview

TE Connectivity's Quality Assurance Teams are responsible for all or part of an organization's Quality Management System, including conformance and continuous improvement initiatives. They work on systemic evaluation of products, services, facilities, manufacturing or business processes, to ensure that standards of quality are being met. Develop and implement quality plans, programs and procedures using quality control statistics, lean manufacturing concepts, and six-sigma tools and analyses. They reviews, analyze and report on quality discrepancies, investigate problems and executes quality audits, and develops disposition and corrective actions for recurring discrepancies. The team works closely with manufacturing, engineering, customers, or suppliers and subcontractors to ensure requirements are met.

Responsibilities:

• Supervision of team of IQI and IQE for the related plant incl team performance and development responsibility
• Managing IQI work schedules
• Ensuring that all materials have a valid inspection plan in ERP system
• Setup and maintain QIP (Quality Inspection Plans) based upon the relevant specifications and drawings
• Ensure that documentations is understood by local teams of Controllers, e.g. by raising Quality Alerts, Failure Catalogues into local language
• Ensure availability of necessary equipment for incoming inspection area to perform required measurements/tests (e.g. gauges, calipers, testers,…).
• Basic maintenance and care for all measuring equipment, fixture, gages and test equipment, making sure the calibration is valid at all times of use.
• Ensures competencies of Team by appropriate training e.g. for dealing with measurement equipment and performing necessary inspections
• Management of Interplant complaint process including Material Return Processes in SAP
• Supports inspection of incoming goods according defined QIP and relevant specifications (visual inspection, gages, measurements, testing, etc.) when needed
• Ensures storing and availability of Certificate of Compliance records for incoming material.
• Communicates to relevant functions (Production, IQE, Logistics, PM, etc.) to help inspectors and IQE in case of unclear requirements.
• Responsible Quality contact for blocked stock review including regular review with other departments.
• Responsible Quality contact for scrap approval referring Incoming Inspection
• Assist IQI / IQE / SQE / ASQE / STE in quality evaluation and other work-related requests.
• Responsible for Incoming Quality Assurance reporting needs, e.g. Scrap, Blocked Stock, Quality Notifications, Inspections

What your background should look like:

• At least 4 years of experience within related industry
• Leadership experience in manufacturing environment
• Lean Manufacturing and Problem-Solving tools expertise
• Handling of non-conforming material
• Incoming inspection Process and robust containment actions
• Demonstrated skills in driving actions for containing quality spills, coordinating suppliers, Third party companies, and production internal quality and materials teams
• Working knowledge in production environment.
• Ability to work with a multifunctional team.
• Thorough knowledge of Problem-Solving tools (8D at the minimum)
• Knowledge using process improvement techniques and methodologies (e.g., Kaizen, Lean) and tools (e.g., 8D, SPC, Capability Analysis, MSA, and FMEA, CP, PPAP, Safe Launch, CSL).
• Software, SAP and MS Office: Word, Excel; Power Point.
• Basic knowledge in statistical software such as Minitab
• Advanced Knowledge in Geometric Dimensioning & Tolerancing (GD&T) and reading technical drawings
• Experience handling measurement equipment, and performing measurements
• Assertive communication and leadership skills
• Knowledge on ISO9001
  

Competencies

Building Effective TeamsManaging and Measuring WorkMotivating OthersValues: Integrity, Accountability, Inclusion, Innovation, TeamworkSET : Strategy, Execution, Talent (for managers)