This role is critical in enhancing the comprehensive and effectiveness of total quality management system in R&D, especially the design quality part, and more importantly, deploy the quality methodology to R&D projects as to ensure the high-quality delivery of these projects.
• Be responsible for assessing, enhancing and managing end-to-end quality system which starts with market insights, new product development until customer service.
• Participate in the development of robust design quality processes in R&D AP (including but not limited to innovation quality gate process, technical change management process and technology service process).
• Deploy design quality process in daily R&D tasks, projects and changes to ensure high quality delivery.
• Comprehensively review the effectiveness of product qualification mechanism versus customer needs and competitors’ practice, govern projects’ verification and System validation proposals, and provide technical guidance to the qualification results review.
• Play the quality assurance contact window role to the R&D and engineering technical changes management, ensure technical risks effectively assessed and managed, and quality checkpoints are well met.
• Set up and lead R&D quality meetings, manage the R&D quality performance and key improvement actions.
• Support 6 sigma capability buildup and projects rollout in R&D AP.