Supplier Quality Engineer (Japanese Language)（求人番号：25514）

The Supplier Quality Engineer (SQE) is primarily responsible for activities including product industrialization, vendor management and oversight of the International Procurement Office (IPO) Management System.

Product Industrialization (Across a range of categories/vendors)
- Interact/work with engineering procurement and other functions (Procurement, R&D, Business Unit, Engineering) to define/agree on specifications to ensure products meet customers’ requirements. This includes resolution of gaps in specifications (or differences in samples). The customers’ requirements must be consistently aligned with product the vendor industrializes and mass produces.
- Ensure processes are well understood and resultant process controls are implemented to guarantee minimal risk of process or product non-compliance.
- Use internally and promote to suppliers the use of continuous improvement tools including Lean/6-Sigma, Error Proofing, Statistical Process control (including Cpk/Ppk assessment), Failure Mode Effect Analysis (FMEA), Fault Tree Analysis (FTA), Control Plan creation based on defined Critical To Quality (CTQ) parameters, Pre-Production Approval Process (PPAP)
- Work to complete and comply with the standard Lixil industrialization milestone/gate process (including 4M changes – man, machine, method, material)

Vendor Management
- Complete vendor approval audits at vendors with the support of Vendor Operations Excellence team. Audits should focus on key areas including (but not limited to) manufacturing/technological capabilities, OHS&E, innovation, management and quality systems/controls, shop floor management. Results of audits/vendor visits need to be followed up to ensure completion and sustainability.
- Facilitate root cause analysis and associated corrective/preventive actions concerning non-compliant products or processes. This may include on-site visits for analysis of root cause and validation together with verification of effectiveness and sustainability of corrective/preventive actions.
- Using performance data compiled from suppliers, propose improvement actions both internally and to the external vendor base.
- Through routine vendor audits/visits, review supplier processes (including manufacturing) and work with them to optimize/reduce process waste.
- Where necessary, facilitate the escalation and ultimate resolution of product/supplier issues to ensure any additional costs/delivery and product quality risks are minimized.
- Provide monthly reporting/analysis of supplier performance.

System and Policies
- Manage the IPO System ensuring contents/processes in the system remain relevant and provide expected outcomes.
- Manage and ensure compliance with internal IPO processes/databases and Lixil policies and procedures through periodic auditing of internal systems.

General
-Other responsibilities and/or assignments will be given from time to time and will be aligned with this position’s skill, experience and capability requirements.

 The minimum level of Quality Management experiences is preferred
 Knowledge of product design, production process and quality assurance methodologies are a plus
 Continuous improvement and proactive mindset
 Good interpersonal and communication skills
 Detail oriented with ability to troubleshoot issues
 Ability to build strong relationships cross-functionally and influence others
 Regional travels of about 50% expected
 Japanese language proficiency (JLPT N2 or above) is critical to interact with Japanese colleagues/experts
 Experience to work for production/manufacturing (OK even it is not related to quality-related activity)
 Interested in manufacturing or the improvement activity in shop-floors

Japanese

-VB depends on company and individual performance.
-AL starts from 16 days, AL will increase by 1 day every year based on the employee's date join, capped at maximum of 21 days.
-ML 14 days.

8:30 〜 17:30