Quality Assurance Engineer (QA, funiture, sourcing office)

Job Ref: L494R4Y5

Key Responsibilities

• Enforce and ensure the organisations quality standards and protocols.
• Together with the BD, develop and ensure that all products are developed and manufactured in line with customer and requirements (material, finish, construction, mandatory standard etc).
• Partner with BD to audit new factories, qualify and recommend new suppliers from a technical and quality perspective, compliance and standards
• Conduct inline inspection of the process and ensure that guidelines and protocols are being followed
• Ensure suppliers received and manufacture the products according to technical specifications and all specified requirement consistently for every batch.
• Responsible for ensuring that all articles have full technical documents and upload all documents on system timely. (Before first inspection)
• Set the standards for defect classifications being used in AQL based quality inspections.
• Carry out full annual inline inspection product review on consistent articles to ensure they are always within specification according to the technical documents.
• Checking of samples and preproduction sample / master sample.
• Check and approve samples of new products (for customers) against agreed specifications from Sales and ensure they are manufactured in line with specified material quality, construction, workmanship and finishing.
• perform sample inspection, generate sample report for sale review, and coordinate the sample shipment out with BS.
• Run in-house tests on the product before sending to testing labs to ensure due diligence.
• Follow up, check and coordinate all test lab report, assembly instruction, carton label, loading instruction are in order and submit to customer/central Quality Engineer within timeline.
• Conduct final inspection confirmation for new articles alongside QC.
• Checks QC inspection reports for new article, new supplier and/or new customer which is deemed as high risk.
• Maintain proper record of BOM and quality compliance for each product. This including identification of high-risk materials and waivers received from customer.
• Change and update approve samples/swatches to ensure they are accurate for reference during QC inspections
• Ensure clear and consistent product communication and provides development ideas
• Prepare technical specifications for new products, packaging instructions, labelling instructions, detailed quality requirements and loading instructions (where required by customers) and send to Quality Manager for approval.
• Ensure suppliers received latest updated technical documents including all required documentation and fully understood the instructions before commencing mass production.
• Documents all technical information received from customers requirements onto the technical documents, so that factories have all relevant information required to manufacture the right product.
• Managing products claim
• Prepare and follow up on action plans for any failures, product returns or claims.
• Ensure all corrective actions are implemented in suppliers processes to prevent recurrence of similar claims

Requirements

• At least 5 years of technical/quality experience (Furniture/Building)
• Have good experience in factory and process audit
• Good understanding of workmanship quality
• Supplier quality improvement
• Good knowledge in product failure analysis `
• Good knowledge in risk assessment of product, material quality, construction, workmanship and finishing
• Degree education specialise in Quality Management, Engineering or equivalent.

Contact: phuong.le@peopleprofilers.com, 0903432692