Regional Supplier QA - APAC

Fluence is seeking a Regional Supplier QA for the APAC region in Bengaluru, India. The role involves driving supplier quality programs, managing product quality issues, and ensuring compliance with regulatory standards. Key responsibilities include mentoring the team, conducting audits, and developing quality control systems. Candidates should have a bachelor's degree in engineering and over 5 years of relevant experience. The position is full-time and not remote.
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Fluence IS AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER and fully subscribes to the principles of Equal Employment Opportunity to ensure that all applicants and employees are considered for hire, promotion, and job status without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, sexual orientation, marital or familial status.
Responsibilities:
• Responsible to drive programs to increase organization’s input in reporting supplier quality issues to enable improvement plans and strengthen quality culture within the organization.
• Acts as the escalation point and ensure the Regional Supplier Quality team maintains an active stance in being the main point of contact for the investigation and resolution of all product quality issues discovered and for interacting with the relevant local stakeholders on such issues.
• Monitor the product quality and compliance activities to ensure current regulatory expectations are met in collaboration with local/global procurement team and Supplier Quality Planning & Development team.
• Support the Supplier Quality Surveillance manager in carrying out surveillance inspections and the SQPD team in performing supplier process and surveillance audits.
• Proactively manage issues and escalates them to appropriate department heads for early resolution.
• Drives close out of of supplier corrective action request (SCARs) for quality issues raised.
• Develops a system to effectively control the quality of incoming materials.
• Mentors the team to ensure that key performance indicators of the team and supplier deliverables are met and proactively implement recovery actions.Qualifications & Skills:
• Bachelor's degree in engineering required.
• 5+ years relevant supplier Quality experience in a relevant industry
• Knowledge of other methods such as Root Cause Analysis, Supplier Management System
• Knowledge of ISO 9001standards (lead-auditor certification is ideal, internal audi)
• Global mindset with experience working in an international/multi-cultural matrix environment
• Strong verbal and written communication skills required..
• Self-starter, results oriented and process driven..
• Strong Problem-solving skills
• Energy Storage knowledge preferred but not required..