Senior / Supplier Quality Engineer - Asia

The Senior / Supplier Quality Engineer is responsible to oversee and manage the Waters’s suppliers’ Quality Assurance with the intent to deliver high quality products and / or services to Waters, Waters’ Contract Manufacturers and Outsourced Service Providers.

• Build and sustain long term win-win relationships with Asia / Greater China suppliers to ensure understanding and fulfilment of Waters’ quality and operations’ Quality Scorecard indicators
• Coordinate and manage supplier relationship alongside sister plants, contract manufacturers (CM) and / or outsourced service providers (OSP)
• Ensure the effectiveness of Asia / Greater China suppliers escalation activities to minimize risk to Waters business and operations
• Collaborate with the supplier in failure analysis, root cause analysis and corrective action plans
• Support Operations, Supply Chain and contract manufacturers to resolve supplier technical issues and implement SCAR action effectively
• Act as Waters QA approval for CMs’ First Article Inspection buy off and Part Acceptance activities
• Regularly communicate with Operations and Supply Chain to identify improvement opportunities / projects for COPQ, Quality and Productivity
• Plan, manage and execute an effective Asia / Greater China supplier audits program and supplier process / product change notification (PCN) program
• Participate in internal / external quality audit activities

• Engineering degree preferably in mechanical, electro-mechanical or electrical engineering
• Minimum 3 years’ experience in a Supplier Quality / Quality Engineering capacity in a manufacturing or CM environment; senior position will be considered for person with more than 6 years relevant experience
• Working knowledge in ISO 9001 and / or ISO 13485
• QMS Auditor / Lead Auditor experience
• Proven experience in efficient supplier quality management
• Proven experience in managing supplier quality escalation, containment and counter measures

Waters Corporation (NYSE: WAT), the world's leading specialty measurement company, has pioneered chromatography, mass spectrometry and thermal analysis innovations serving the life, materials, and food sciences for over 60 years. With approximately 8,000 employees worldwide, Waters operates directly in 35 countries, including 15 manufacturing facilities, with products available in more than 100 countries. Our team focuses on creating business advantages for laboratory-dependent organizations to enable significant advancement in healthcare delivery, environmental management, food safety, and water quality.   

Working at Waters enables our employees to unlock the potential of their careers. Our global team is driven by purpose. We strive to be better, learn and improve every day in everything we do. We’re the problem solvers and innovators that aren’t afraid to take risks to transform the world of human health and well-being. We’re all in it together delivering benefit as one to provide the insights needed today in order to solve the challenges of tomorrow. 

Diversity and inclusion are fundamental to our core values at Waters Corporation. It is our responsibility to actively implement programs and practices to drive inclusive behavior and increase diversity across the organization. We are united by diversity and thrive on it for the benefit of our employees, our products, our customers and our community. Waters is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, marital status, disability, gender identity or protected Veteran status.