SSL Changshu(Foam Solutions and Elastomer Coatings)   **Responsibilities:** **1. Supplier Quality Management** • Establish and maintain current supplier quality agreements and specifications in accordance with organisational requirements. • Monitor and enforce supplier quality performance compliance with material and product specifications. • Direct supplier complaint handling and corrective action verification processes. • Conduct supplier performance evaluations in conjunction with Purchasing/SCM. • Organise, coordinate, and execute supplier audits. • Implement supplier quality improvement and continuous improvement programmes. **2. Quality Performance Monitoring** • Monitor scrap rates, defect trends, and quality performance indicators to identify deviations. • Analyse quality issues with cross-functional teams and implement corrective improvement actions. • Ensure achievement of plant quality objectives and customer satisfaction targets. **3. Quality Management System (QMS)** • Maintain and control quality documentation within the document management system (e.g., roXtra) in accordance with established protocols. • Conduct internal product, process, and system audits. • Execute regular shopfloor quality inspections and address identified non-conformances. • Collect, maintain, analyse, and report quality-related data and key performance indicators. • Oversee annual product validation and compliance testing programmes. **4. Quality Control** • Establish, maintain, and enforce incoming inspection standards aligned with product specifications. • Monitor and verify in-process quality assurance activities in accordance with control plans, production standards, and quality requirements. • Administer non-conforming materials and blocked stock management in accordance with company procedures. • Conduct quality reviews and risk assessments for new suppliers, materials, and projects prior to start of production. **5. Training and Quality Awareness** • Deliver quality awareness training to production and operational personnel according to the established training plan. • Establish and reinforce quality culture and quality best practices across the organisation. **Job Qualifications:** • Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Quality Management, Materials Science, or a related discipline is required. • Demonstrated professional experience in manufacturing quality management, quality control, or supplier quality management is mandatory. • Knowledge of quality management systems, including ISO 9001 and IATF 16949 standards,  Familiarity with VDA standards is highly valued. • Advanced analytical, communication, and problem-solving capabilities are critical to success in this role. • Fluent proficiency in English, both written and spoken, is required for effective cross-functional collaboration and documentation.