EM Supplier Development Engineer

The opportunity

Hitachi Energy Transformer Business Unit in Greater China operates across 55 cities, employs over 1,900 staff, and manages 5 transformer manufacturing plants. More than 90% of its sales come from locally manufactured products. We offer a comprehensive portfolio of Transformers Products, Solutions and Services. Transformers are essential in all electricity-related fields and applications, including power generation, transmission and distribution, oil, chemical and gas, industrial manufacturing, semiconductor and data centers, as well as building and transportation sectors.

Nearly half of our white-collar workforce comprises employees in engineering and scientific fields. Internally, we have targeted talent development programs for employees at different stages of their career development to build skills and competencies, foster training, support people to own career development, scale up organization for growth and execution.

How you'll make an impact

1. You will contribute to the supplier qualification process through execution of SAP Ariba based assessments and lead / support the supplier audit planning for EM region and execute the on-site assessments.

2. You will facilitate the implementation of improvement actions at the EM suppliers based on the on-site audits' findings, detailed process assessments and/or lessons learned from critical quality incidents.

3. You will lead / support on PPAP implementation at EM Suppliers and provide relative training to the suppliers if needed. Ensure critical parts and major changes are approved through the global parts approval process to guarantee that supplier materials/components can fulfill technical and operational requirements including the coordination of trial parts and first article inspection activities with the receiving factory quality.

4. You will monitor and consolidate the available supplier performance indicators and escalations, to identify low-performing suppliers in the EM supply-base and lead / support the annual Supplier Performance Evaluation (SPE) process for the EM suppliers.

5. You will define and implement action plans to recover concern suppliers' performances and collaborate closely with the suppliers to ensure the effective implementation of corrective actions.

6. You will lead / support the non-conformity resolution process with the EM suppliers including non-conformity report sharing, root-cause identification & countermeasure implementation with the concern suppliers and on-site confirmation.