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Our 3,000-plus procurement and logistics employees work in more than 100 countries, to obtain and supply millions of products and services in over 200 categories from thousands of suppliers all over the world. Our goal is to create a supply base that works as an extended enterprise, creating value through continuous improvement in quality, technology, and logistics, while optimizing cost and sustainability. You will be a vital member of the Procurement and Logistics team within the Transformer Business, in Turkey Region. Reporting to the Hub Supply and Quality development Manager, you will provide support to the wider business by ensuring customers satisfaction with PGTR products via applying risk-oriented quality assurance methodologies and necessary supplier improvement initiatives to achieve on-time and on-quality delivery of the supplier parts/materials.
Your responsibilities
- Supplier Qualification: Support Category teams within the supplier qualification process through evaluating the supplier qualification assessment forms and recommending the appropriate qualification level. Ensure the supply base is and remains fully qualified and compliant through regular monitoring and the reporting of the qualification status.
- Supplier Assessment (On-site Audits): Plan and conduct the required supplier on-site audits including assessment reporting, corrective
- action plan aligned with the suppliers. Verify the effective closure of corrective action plan items by the supplier side.
- Supply Base Compliance: Participate in the supplier sustainability audits and verify the closure of SSDP corrective action plan items by the supplier within a defined resolution date.
- Supplier Issue Resolution, Non-Conformance, and Claim Management: Lead the non-conformity resolution process with the suppliers in case of the escalated technical issues from the factories and ensure the effective root-cause analysis and the countermeasure implementation by the suppliers. Lead the escalation of the suppliers to BU SQM in case of the poor resolution of the identified issues.
- Supplier Performance Monitoring: Monitor and consolidate the supplier delivery and quality KPI’s, the critical non-conformities escalated from the factories. Conduct Supplier Performance Evaluations (SPE) for the identified suppliers by the category management.
- Identify the critical supplier list per category and define the improvement target(s) per supplier. Plan/execute the supplier visit in case of a detailed process investigation is required. Share the supplier performance KPI’s and the critical supplier list regularly with the BU/HUB SCM and the Category Teams.
- Supplier Performance Improvement: Lead the supplier performance improvement actions for the targeted suppliers to meet the customer and the ABB factories’ expectations (following DMAIC and/or 8D methodology). Lead the escalation of the suppliers to BU Category Management in case of uncollaborative suppliers.
- Process and Systems Compliance: Implement PG/PGTR supply quality procedures within the assigned responsibility area. Develop/issue the specific supplier and part/material quality procedures for the related category. Ensure the appropriate utilization of the SBM tools within the BU/HUB organizations and the local units. Monitor and ensure the supplier performance data, the supplier quality costs, and the claims are reported according to PG/PGTR guidelines and instructions.
- Interface with Other Functions and the suppliers: Closely collaborate with the Category teams to support the implementation of Category
- strategy (CIPS) and provide recommendations from supplier performance and capability perspectives (e.g: support for the supplier classification, new supplier selection, onboarding, or de-sourcing recommendation).
- Represent the “voice of the customer” to the suppliers during the supplier audits and as well as other remote activities and follow-up (e.g: interface with suppliers’ engineering, operations, and quality senior management)
- Parts Qualification: Support the production part approval process for the new supplier parts/materials including the coordination of trial parts and first article inspection activities with the factory quality.
- Living core values of safety and integrity, which means taking responsibility for your own actions while caring for your colleagues, and the business.
Your background
- Bachelor’s engineering degree and 2+ years of professional experience working in engineering, manufacturing, supply chain, and/or quality in the field of transformer systems and/or related technologies.
- Work experience in quality engineering functions focusing on supplier development and improving customer satisfaction. Experience in Quality Assurance [QA] and/or Quality Control [QC] in a manufacturing environment is a plus.
- Strong analytical skills are heavily preferred – especially for data analysis proven experience of using different tools like; failure analysis, FMEA (Failure Modes & Effects Analysis), FMECA (Failure Modes, Effects, & Criticality Analysis), test engineering, and/or product reliability is a plus.
- Recent experience working with data-driven analytical methodologies for industrial quality applications – especially Statistical Process Control [SPC], Six Sigma, Process Capability (Cp, CpK), and/or Process Performance Analysis.
- Experience working with Process Improvement and/or Continuous Improvement practices (e.g. Kaizen, 4Q, DMAIC, Gemba, Root-Cause Analysis [RCA]; etc.)
- Examples of executed projects for quality and continuous improvement based on Quality Planning and Lean Six Sigma.
- Familiarity with ISO-9001 standards is a plus (expertise in QS-9000 will also be considered).
- Experience working in product development and manufacturing.
- Excellent communication skills in English & Turkish.
More about us
Hitachi Energy is a global technology leader with a combined heritage of almost 250 years, employing around 36,000 people in 90 countries. Headquartered in Switzerland, the business serves utility, industry and infrastructure customers across the value chain, and emerging areas like sustainable mobility, smart cities, energy storage and data centres. With a proven track record, global footprint and unparalleled installed base, Hitachi Energy balances social, environmental and economic values, and is committed to powering good for a sustainable energy future, with pioneering and digital technologies, as the partner of choice for enabling a stronger, smarter and greener grid. https://www.hitachienergy.com/
Publication date
2022-02-10
Reference Number
TR51757782_E3