Supply Quality and Development Engineer (Strong candidate already identified)

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Mission Statement:

Ensure customers satisfied with PGTR products via applying risk-oriented quality assurance methodologies and necessary supplier improvement initiatives to achieve on-time and on-quality delivery of the supplier parts/materials. Complete quality audits, surveillance, and the inspections at supplier manufacturing locations. Perform supply quality issue resolution for escalated suppliers. Lead the supplier performance tracking for each BU/HUB category. Lead the supplier performance improvement actions for the targeted suppliers. Implement and sustain PG/PGTR supply quality procedures within the BU/HUB's. Ensure the appropriate utilization of the SBM tools.

Main Activities:

1. Supplier Qualification:

• Support Category teams within the supplier qualification process through evaluating the supplier qualification assessment forms and recommending the appropriate qualification level.

• Ensure the supply base is and remains fully qualified and compliant through regular monitoring and the reporting of the qualification status.

2. Supplier Assessment (On-site Audits):

• Plan and conduct the required supplier on-site audits including the assessment reporting (with qualification decision), corrective action plan alignment with the suppliers

• Follow-up and confirm the effective closure of corrective action plan items by the suppliers.

3. Supply Base Compliance (for HUB SQEs):

• Participate in the SSDP (Supplier Sustainability Development Program) assessments.

• Conduct regular status update meetings with the suppliers and confirm the closure of corrective action plan items by the suppliers within the defined resolution time frame.

4. Parts Qualification:

• PPAP process governance for BU/HUB Category parts/components (creation of category specific parts approval requirement standard)

• Lead the production part approval process for the high priority cases including the coordination of trial parts and first article inspection activities with the factory quality

• Visualize the successfully completed PPAP's at the global/regional level to all SCM/Quality community to avoid the duplication of the efforts.

5. Supplier Issue Resolution, Non-Conformance, and Claim Management:

• Lead the non-conformity resolution process with the suppliers in case of the escalated technical issues from the factories and ensure the effective root-cause analysis and the countermeasure implementation by the suppliers.

• Lead the escalation of the suppliers to BU/HUB SQM in-case of the poor resolution of the identified issues.

6. Supplier Performance Monitoring:

• Monitor and consolidate the supplier delivery and quality KPI's, the critical nonconformities escalated from the factories.

• Ensure completion of annual Supplier Performance Evaluations (SPE) for the identified suppliers by the category management (including reporting per Category/HUB)

• Identify the critical supplier list per category and define the improvement target(s) per supplier.

• Plan/execute the supplier on-site assessment in case of a detailed process investigation is required.

• Share the supplier performance KPI's and the critical supplier list regularly with the BU/HUB SCM and the Category Teams.

7. Supplier Performance Improvement:

• Lead the supplier performance improvement actions for the targeted suppliers to meet the customer and the Hitachi Energy's factories' expectations (following DMAIC, A3 and/or 8D methodology).

• Lead the escalation of the suppliers to BU/HUB Category Management in-case of uncollaborative suppliers.

8. Process and Systems Compliance:

• Implement PG/PGTR supply quality procedures within the assigned responsibility area.

• Develop/issue the specific supplier and part/material quality procedures for the related category.

• Ensure the appropriate utilization of the SBM tools within the BU/HUB organizations and the local units

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