Oversees and provides strategic direction to Engineering, Quality Control and Planning teams in APAC. Partners with oversea teams to ensure success of manufacturing, supply chain, and product engineering projects. Motivates and directs external vendor partnerships to ensure strategic goals for Business are met.
As you drive Business strategy through thoughtful best practices, in this role you will educate your teams on the most effective means of driving business and meeting company goals. While building partnerships throughout the organization, excellent interpersonal skills and the ability to inspire through example are a must.
Role
- Leads Quality and Engineering teams in APAC. Implementing corrective action plans with vendors as needed to ensure product quality meets Business standards during mass production
- Sets strategy and deploys team to manage quality control/inspection process.
- Oversees new vendor partnerships in APAC to meet Business sourcing & manufacturing needs lowering risk and diversify vendor base.
- Leads review of vendors in APAC based on the Business's quality standards, core values & compliance requirements.
- Oversees all quality aspects of products ensuring vendor has a robust quality program in place to meet industry regulatory key measurements
- Oversees new vendor partnerships in APAC to meet Business sourcing & manufacturing needs lowering risk and diversify vendor base.
- Partners with HQ on engineering during design phase to align on design feasibility, provide design input/insights based on vendor capabilities.
- Manages escalated issues between factory, Carson Engineering, Carson IHL, and Carson QA to resolve any issues identified through quality reviews.
- Resolves vendor related business issues by leveraging relationship at factory executive level i.e., pricing, production capacity, etc.
- Partners with the vendor to establish process capability on critical dimensions for critical parts to determine tolerance what specifications the vendor can consistently meet.
- Collaborates with vendor executives on capital investments and significant process improvement to achieve maximum output.
- Understands vendor capabilities and shares strengths & weaknesses with Carson Engineering to ensure proposed designs are possible.
- Oversees in process product support during new product startups to ensure success of run.
- Oversees all aspects of Planning within the region, including New Product Planning, Master Planning and Expediting.
Qualifications
- 20+ years of Manufacturing, Supply Chain, and Product Engineering
- Proven success building and leading large teams
- Ability to build strong partnership with Vendors
- Superb communication skills
- Fluent in Mandarin, Cantonese and English
- Ability to assess and delegate workloads
- Talent for developing and promoting efficiency in procedures
- Capacity to meet aggressive deadlines and handle multiple priorities
- Candid, receptive personality
