Supplier QA Engineer (12 months contract)

Job description

JOB DESCRIPTION:

Primary Function/Primary Goals/Objectives:

·  The job entails working with the suppliers to provide resolve supplier quality issues as well develop and support suppliers’ continuous improvement projects.
·  Assure that investigations and continuous improvement projects associated with plant operations conform to its requirements and risk assessment, Abbott Nutrition Quality standards and other applicable regulatory standards.
·  Develop and support continuous improvement projects to improve incoming lab efficiencies.                                                                                                                       

Major Responsibilities:

·  Lead investigations to resolve and troubleshoot supplier events including processing or packaging issues.
·  Write up of exception reports related to supplier issues.
·  Responsible to resolve and approval of exception reports within the plants. 
·  Monitor ingredients and packaging events (SENs and Exception Reports) monthly and quarterly and identify and resolve trends.
·  Identify continuous improvement with vendors to drive towards zero supplier quality events.
·  To ensure that proper incoming material documentation involving CAPA and specifications are compliant to Corporate and regulatory requirements.
·  Drives improvement and corrective action in the quality of incoming raw materials, and packaging materials.
·  Provides technical support in the selection of suppliers.
·  Responsible for site new suppliers’ qualification and ensure the timeline are kept.
·  Work with technical SME to develop acceptance criteria for materials. 
·  Monitors supplier performance to drive supplier corrective action, manufacturing yield issues and field failures.
·  Develop and approve site suppliers’ material acceptance program.
·  Lead supplier audits for material qualification as well as to support Division supplier QA for surveillance audits and new qualification for materials.
·  Work with Division supplier QA on ingredients and packaging suppliers’ systems and processes to improve process capability and to develop certificates of analysis where applicable.
·  Assure appropriate supplier in-line equipment is validated.
·  Maintain relevant documentation such as suppliers’ policies, procedures, specifications, and acceptance programs and assure these documents are current and compliant to internal policies and regulations.
·  Develop and Approve site suppliers’ material acceptance program.
·  Assure that proposed changes made to supplier processes are approved and compliant to specifications, making changes when necessary.
·  Manage ingredients and packaging supplier recurring CAPAs on a monthly, quarterly and annual basis by evaluating exception report data and reporting information to appropriate areas of the business (i.e. Purchasing and Operations), as well as the suppliers.
·  Drive continuous improvement projects to improve efficiency and cost savings related to materials (ingredients & packaging).
·  Support site Quality compliance activities where needed. Examples: monthly GMP walkdown audits and site IQA program, etc.
·  Any other duties as assigned by supervisor.

Skills/Experience Requirements:

·  3 to 5 years of experience in supplier quality assurance programs or related experience in operations, or quality assurance. 
·  Excellent collaboration skills, communication skills, problem solving competence, organizational skills, training skills and budget management should be demonstrable.
·  Good practical knowledge of GMP in food/ pharmaceutical manufacturing.

Education:

·  Bachelor’s degree, in the field of engineering, food science, food technology, nutrition, chemistry, or related discipline.

     

The base pay for this position is
N/A

In specific locations, the pay range may vary from the range posted.

     

JOB FAMILY:

Operations Quality

     

DIVISION:

ANSC Nutrition Supply Chain

        

LOCATION:

Singapore > Singapore : SN01

     

ADDITIONAL LOCATIONS:

     

WORK SHIFT:

Standard

     

TRAVEL:

Not specified

     

MEDICAL SURVEILLANCE:

Not Applicable

     

SIGNIFICANT WORK ACTIVITIES:

Not Applicable