SQM Engineer, KONE

We are looking for an SQM Engineer to join our clients KONE Industrial Oy's European SQM team. The position will be based in Hyvinkää with a hybrid work setup. The assignment starts quickly and lasts at least a year.
Contract of employment will be with Adecco.

In this role, you will be responsible for supplier selection, qualification, development, and management processes to achieve the expected level of quality and service. The SQM engineer ensures suppliers are capable and complying with quality and sustainability requirements. SQM Engineer effectively applies supplier quality management processes, tools, and resources to drive Supplier Excellence.

Your main tasks will include

• Developing, piloting, and implementing strategies, roadmap, quality practices, and requirements, both in the SQM team and within the assigned product tribe
• Partnering with stakeholders to ensure that product and process quality, technical and business requirements are defined for the tribe's suppliers' base
• Manage supplier qualification process and participate in supplier negotiations
• Monitor and report supplier delivery/quality performance and ensure corrective/preventive actions
• Ensure audits/assessments at suppliers are planned and executed with the target of securing adherence to quality and sustainability requirements.
• Ensure that reported quality issues and audit/assessment findings are analyzed, root-caused and corrective/preventive actions agreed upon, and implemented to prevent a reoccurrence of quality issues
• Continuously improve suppliers and mitigate potential risks to achieve business objectives and drive supplier development projects, as well as drive their performance by building and establishing effective corrective and improvement actions
• Act as result provider in new product/change projects and ensure the right quality via execution of production part approval process (PPAP)
• Actively support the implementation of Lean Six Sigma methodologies at suppliers and internal processes
• Ensure compliance with quality, safety, and sustainability standards.

To be successful in this role, you should have

• At the minimum B.Sc. level University/University of Applied Sciences technical degree
• Minimum 3 years of experience in the casting and machining manufacturing environment with a strong technical background
• Product and process auditing experience, management system auditing experience with ISO 9001, 14001, and 45001 or similar
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills
• Strong project management and problem-solving skills
• Strong solution-oriented approach, capability to implement, and persistency in follow-up activities to ensure quality and sustainability
• Result oriented, self-driven and self-motivated to learn and coach
• Willingness to travel domestically and internationally
• Fluency in English. Any European language (e.g., Finnish, German, Italian, Polish) is an asset

We offer you strong support in your personal and professional growth in a truly global business environment. We believe in inspiring, engaging and developing our people. If you are interested in this position, please send your application at www.adecco.fi with CV and salary expectations by 18.8.2024. For more information please contact Sari Lehtonen, sari.lehtonen@adecco.fi

Keywords: SQM Engineer, quality, safety, sustainability ,KONE, Hyvinkää