Specialist, Operations Quality

About the Role

Quality Specialist is responsible for dealing with the three major phases of Quality Management - Quality Planning/Prevention, Corrective Action, and Continual Improvement. Quality specialist will lead process/procedure definition, and maintain a continuous flow of high quality products to our customers.

Responsibilities

• Lead the team to handle all quality excursions independently, and take effective actions on time
• Oversee the product & material quality from NPI to mass production
• Develop the quality control plan for respective area (material/process/product)
• Monitor and report quality KPI for internal (factory) and external (customer)
• Drive continuous improvement to benefit customer, CLS and supplier
• Develop and maintain internal quality system, procedures, work instructions and workmanship standards
• Lead process/product/system/supplier audit and improvement actions follow up (Industry standards e.g. ISO, Compliance audit, Safety audit etc.)
• Follow up the EC (Engineering Change), SPCN (Supplier Process Change Notification) to ensure the implementation of changes is timely and accurate (initiated both externally and internally)
• Coach junior quality staff to improve their quality knowledge
• Accomplish the jobs assignment from the superior and participate in the quality strategy deployment

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in related field, or consideration of an equivalent combination of education and experience
• 4 to 6 years in a similar role or industry
• Strong knowledge of quality tools, ISO and IPC standards and processes
• Knowledge of software and its uses in generating reports capturing data presenting data in an understandable format
• Strong knowledge of product and manufacturing processes
• Knowledge and understanding of the business unit and how decisions impact customer satisfaction product quality, on-time delivery and profitability of the unit
• Knowledge of quality tools such as FMEA, PMP, SPC, 8D methodology, etc.
• Knowledge of Six sigma and Lean Kaizen
• Ability to effectively communicate with a wide variety of internal and external customers

About the Company

Celestica (NYSE, TSX: CLS) enables the world's best brands. Through our recognized customer-centric approach, we partner with leading companies in Aerospace and Defense, Communications, Enterprise, HealthTech, Industrial, Capital Equipment and Energy to deliver solutions for their most complex challenges. As a leader in design, manufacturing, hardware platform and supply chain solutions, Celestica brings global expertise and insight at every stage of product development – from drawing board to full-scale production and after-market services for products from advanced medical devices, to highly engineered aviation systems, to next-generation hardware platform solutions for the Cloud. Headquartered in Toronto, with talented teams spanning 40+ locations in 13 countries across the Americas, Europe and Asia, we imagine, develop and deliver a better future with our customers.