Principal Supplier Quality Engineer
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Principal Supplier Quality Engineer auditing and improving electromechanical hardware suppliers across Asia for Halter’s smart grazing technology. Driving root-cause resolution, specifications, approvals, and supplier capability.
Responsibilities:
- Lead technically rigorous audits of component suppliers across Asia
- Assess supplier process control, measurement capability, and production and inspection reliability
- Identify quality-performance drivers and develop prioritised audit findings
- Conduct pre-qualification audits for new suppliers
- Run surveillance audits and verify corrective-action effectiveness
- Develop and improve Halter’s audit methodology and supplier assessment criteria
- Own resolution of complex supplier quality issues using first-principles analysis
- Lead rapid on-site analysis of production failures and OQC rejections
- Assess risks to in-flight inventory and define paths to resolution
- Improve supplier process controls, measurement systems, and inspection methods
- Coach supplier engineering teams in root-cause analysis and corrective action
- Escalate delayed resolutions, poor supplier engagement, and emerging production risks
- Implement and maintain quality assurance specifications at suppliers
- Refine QA specifications with hardware design and supplier quality leadership
- Communicate, implement, and revalidate updated specifications as designs evolve
- Challenge unclear, unmeasurable, or unrealistic specifications
- Support supplier-side part approval and formal component validation
- Track approval status, corrective actions, open quality issues, and supply-continuity risks
- Collaborate on supplier OQC failures detected during contract-manufacturer IQC
- Build relationships with supplier quality and engineering counterparts
- Develop structured improvement plans for systemic supplier capability gaps
- Share Halter standards and technical knowledge to build supplier capability
- Report to the Head of Supplier Quality and work with hardware design and operations teams
Requirements:
- 15 or more years of experience in supplier quality or manufacturing quality for complex electromechanical hardware
- Proven track record of solving technically difficult quality problems at suppliers
- Deep manufacturing and process engineering knowledge
- Understanding of part manufacturing, process variation, and process control
- Exceptional technical audit capability
- Strong first-principles thinking and root-cause analysis
- Experience with QA specification development
- Ability to assess whether specifications are clear, measurable, and correctly implemented
- High proficiency in English and Mandarin, written, verbal, and reading
- Ability to work directly with Chinese engineers and leadership without translation
- Ability to operate autonomously across a portfolio of suppliers
- Willingness to travel regularly across APAC; significant time on-site at suppliers
- Master's degree in Engineering or related technical discipline preferred
Benefits:
- $1,000 personal growth fund
- Autonomy, mastery, and learning opportunities
- Diverse and inclusive workplace
- Meaningful work improving farmers’ livelihoods and sustainable operations
- Global team collaboration and challenging, high-impact work
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