- Conduct on-site and remote supplier audits to assess compliance with quality management systems, manufacturing processes, and customer requirements.
- Create and maintain audit reports, supplier evaluations, quality procedures, work instructions, checklists, templates, and controlled quality documentation.
- Facilitate regular supplier quality reviews to monitor open action items, quality concerns, supplier performance, and timely closure of SCARs and corrective actions.
- Monitor supplier quality performance metrics and scorecards, and communicate risks, trends, and escalation items to internal stakeholders.
- Review and manage supplier corrective actions, SCARs, and CAPA activities, ensuring investigations are technically sound and supported by objective evidence.
- Collaborate with Engineering, Operations, Supply Chain, and suppliers to resolve quality issues and establish clear technical and quality requirements.
- Lead supplier quality activities for New Product Introduction (NPI) programs to ensure supplier readiness and successful product launches.
- Assess supplier manufacturing readiness, process flows, PFMEAs, control plans, inspection plans, validation activities, and quality requirements prior to production release.
- Support first article inspections (FAI), pilot builds, process validations, production transfers, and production readiness reviews.
- Drive supplier quality performance during NPI and production ramp activities by identifying risks, establishing mitigation plans, and ensuring timely resolution of issues.
- Develop and maintain internal quality procedures, databases, supplier scorecards, audit records, and external quality documentation supporting Advantest suppliers.
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Advantest America
Aug 19, 2026